Target Audience
Transcript: Target Audience What can consumption of social realism films across different platforms tell us about their audiences? Can we build a profile of the audiences? YouTube After using YouTube to find various various social realism films, I can find out a lot about the types of audiences that these films have. I searched the Social realism film 'Somer's town,' Directed by Shane Meadows. It has strong themes of immigration and cultural differences between Slavic and British people. I went on the the uploaders channel to find out who they were and how I can understand my audience better. Hi all and welcomen to my Channel My name is Boris all my frend call me Boro or DureX don't ask why... I am from Slovenia, Litija i like chating i dont bother if u add me to my msn and talk with me in free time I like mix or make songs...If u like my songs subscribe it. And before i become Royal Deejay i was before DJ splasher u can find my songs on youtube... I hope u like my channel see ya!! xD ╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗ ║╚╣║║║╚ In my Channel are many new movie Trailers so dont forget subscribe to be first to get new movie trailers Short-hand wording and emoticons could suggest a younger age, but could also be put down to English not being a first language. Music appears to be more important than film, which could suggest that film is a minor hobby and could prove inconsistant as a example of a social realism audience. The user states that they are from Slovenia, which could show the reason why they could be interested in the film Somers Town. (Slavic Themes) After looking at some of the other film trailers uploaded we can learn a little bit more. Some big budget feature films such as Star wars: Attack of the Clones, and feature comedies such as Sex Drive. Also featured are prominant Social Realism films such as Frozen River and Le Silence de Lorna (Lornas Silence.) Lornas Silence is about Albanian emigrants in Belgium which continues with the theme of Somers town, rectifying the uploaders interest. This shows they to have an interest and knowledge of the Social realism genre, depending on the relevence of the themes to their lifestyles and culture. This is one of the comments on the video. America isn't the center of everything... they didn't teach me that in school... shadowmorman 1 year ago This stuck out as the most poignant of comments, reflecting on somers town's simplicity of shadowed real-life situations. The film clearly had an affect on 'shadowmorman,' to I decided to look at this profile. I was surprised to find that he was from Los Angeles, suggesting there may be a small audience that are interested in completely foreign situations of Britain. I also noticed his channel mainly consisted of unsigned dubstep music, a genre that has only recently had its commercial break and has a young audience. This proves my preconceptions that a social realism audience being a niché collections of film students and fanatics. Searching the key word involving my film 'Disability' into youtube there were weak results when compared to other videos uploaded to youtube. MuBi I went to the online distributor 'MuBi' and searched for a social realism film. I saw Bullet boy, and chose to see what sort of people watched this film, and what they liked and disliked. MuBi has a small presentation of statistics, through the number of the users that have 'favourited' the films. In Bullet Boy's case it has 100 fans. Currently 3.7/5 Stars. User: 'Richard Parkins' seemed disappointed with the film, claiming it was cliche. This is a important concern as misrepresentation and cliches could lead to stereotyping. I am now personally more concerned about mis-representation as my film tackles the theme of disability. My film aims to challange the audience to stereotype with disabilites and then counter this view. If I mis-represent it myself my films whole purpose is ruined. A closer inspection of Richards profile displays his choice of favourite films, that show a variety of mainstream and social realism cinema. User: 'Boldizar Csernak-Risko' has the complete opposite opinion to richard, stating that the director 'Knows what he's talking about.' Although Bullet boy is social realism, It's not a short film, which is what my film is. I found the Short 'Love me or leave me alone.' One of the comments was from a user 'ConallVision.' An independant film-maker (Clearly intereseted in cinema.) "Really lovely and feel goody. Of course there is a more sinister side." The use of 'lovely' and 'feel-goody' is an extremely odd choice of description for this film, considering the film revolves completely around arguing, violence, foul language and under-age sex. It could be about the naivity of the characters, but in my personal opinion I consider it ignorance. In his favourites there are mainly art house and serious cinema, with an interest of feature social realism films, such as fish tank. From this and other similar profiles I can see that it is rare for anyone to only