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The document discusses strategies for making horror films relatable to target audiences. It notes that the primary audience for horror/thriller films is 15-30 years old, as younger people tend to enjoy being scared more. It emphasizes the importance of including relatable elements so audiences can imagine themselves in the characters' positions and become more immersed in the film. Producers aim to make broad characters that many people can relate to. For example, a film targeting teenage males may include stereotypical elements like characters who are constantly on their phones, interested in sports and cars. Including such relatable details and scenarios makes the audience more interested in the film.
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- 1. The primary audience for our film, a basic and indeed almost all horror/thriller films is around 15-30 years old. Younger people tend to enjoy being scared more than older people, so horror films put more relatable things in so that the audience can relate to the films, which will make the audience even more scared because the audience is constantly thinking that the characters in the films could be them, in all horror films people imagine themselves in the characters position. This is why people always shout at the film telling the characters what to do even though the audience obviously knows that the characters can’t hear them. It is their view on the film and their opinion on what to do which is very positive because it means that the audience is very immersed in the film. Horror films don’t usually have a targeted age or class, all genders and all classes seem to enjoy horror films. The audience would be similar to mainstream horror films such as the ‘Paranormal Activity’ series, which target younger audiences and play on their fears just like our film. Making a horror film that is relatable is very important. When an audience is watching a horror film they are always subconsciously putting themselves in the position of the character. It is even easier to put themselves in that position if the character is like them, for example if the character is a teenaged male who plays football then it is a lot easier to relate to the character if you are similar to them. Producers do this a lot, they make their characters in films very general so that a lot of people can relate to them and therefore become more engrossed in the film. There are several stereotypes about people that are almost always in horror films. For example in our film the majority of the characters are male teenagers who stereotypically are always on their phones, on social networking sites, interested in cars, enjoy football and other sports. We tried to interpret these and we had a scene where one of the characters are walking along on their phone as all stereotypical teenagers do, this makes our film more relatable to our audience and therefore makes them more interested in our film. Below is a mood board for teenage males, which are featured in our film, these are the kind of things that they are interested in and producers will try and put in a film aimed at the particular audience: