Evaluation task 1- How stereotypes are represented

In theory a stereotypical view of woman that has been accepted by society is that women are weaker than men- so women need men to survive. Another one that has been accepted by society is that women are less dominant than men meaning a woman can not dominate a man. Whilst some stereotypical views of men are that men are always more dominant and men don't get taken advantage of however older men are attracted to younger women and could be more vulnerable towards younger women.

In our thriller these stereotypical views are subverted and at the same time some are conformed. This is because in a situation where there's a woman and a man and out of them one is a murderer if these ideologies were true it would be expected that the killer was the man while the victim was the woman then it would be a typical story of a woman being vulnerable whilst a man took advantage of her slept with her and killed her.

However this did not happen in our thriller. In our thriller we had a younger woman taking advantage of a vulnerable older man tying him up on his bed and murdering him. This subverts the expectations of a typical woman because the woman in our thriller is shown to be dominant she is shot from a low angle looking up whilst our man is shot from a high angle looking down this gives her a sense of power and dominance over the man and it shows that the man is weaker than she is as well as emphasising how vulnerable he was before he got killed whilst women are seen to be less dominant weaker and more vulnerable than males.

However this also a positive representation of men. As older men are believed to be easily fooled and deceived by younger women. In this thriller we have our male of an old age getting manipulated by a younger female. So in this case we conformed to the expectations of a stereotypical lonely older men being extremely vulnerable towards younger women.

Our male actor Bobby was seen as the vulnerable character as he is meant to be seen as a man who cannot really get a woman so he goes for almost anyone and when he thought he finally found someone to settle down with the person ended up killing him and he ended up dead. As our dominant female took one of his belongings and left his dead body on a bed.

 

 

 

 

Evaluation task 4- How have I chosen to attract/address my audience?

Although the audience of "Basic Instinct" was mostly 30-44 year old males however our target audience is between 18 and 29 year old males and this has a relatively large audience especially compared to 18-29 year old females this shows that we would attract our primary secondary audience.

However it also shows that our secondary target audience is going to be larger than our primary target audience. And it also assures us more that we are on the right track for initially targeting a male audience because in two movies that I have researched "The last Seduction" "Basic Instinct" have shown that makes prefer this type of movies as there is a larger male audience in comparison to the female audience attracted.

We are also trying to appeal to the middle and upper class. This is because they will have more disposable income and if they manage to like the movie their likely to give it good publicity towards other upper class and middle class people which will make our movie successful. So they would not mind trying out a movie that does not have pre-sold elements such as well known actors  or a well known director and also a movie that is not high concept and does not have recent/previous movies to bank on. For example The dark knight rises has The dark knight which was successful. That encouraged people to give the dark knight rises as chance.

However we might get mostly working class people because we plan on getting our movie distributed by a UK company which does not have the best record for distributing good successful movies apart from Streetdance 3D and Monsters. So it is likely that it will be cheap to buy or watch the movie at cinema and working class people are seen to like buying low priced things. So we might just end up getting majority of our viewers from the working class.

Votes	Average
Males	73091	6.9
Females	13170	6.7
Aged under 18	197	7.5
Males under 18	136	7.7
Females under 18	61	7.1
Aged 18-29	32208	7.0
Males Aged 18-29	26719	7.0
Females Aged 18-29	5489	6.9
Aged 30-44	41518	6.8
Males Aged 30-44	36360	6.9
Females Aged 30-44	5158	6.6
Aged 45+	10307	6.9
Males Aged 45+	8788	7.0
Females Aged 45+	1519	6.7
IMDb staff	11	6.7
Top 1000 voters	757	6.9
US users	19687	6.8
Non-US users	66574	6.9
IMDb users	104499	6.9

Evaluation task 4- How have I chosen to attract/address my audience?

Males	8095	7.1
Females	1378	7.2
Aged under 18	5	5.7
Males under 18	3	5.3
Females under 18	2	8.0
Aged 18-29	1882	7.0
Males Aged 18-29	1590	7.1
Females Aged 18-29	292	7.0
Aged 30-44	4710	7.1
Males Aged 30-44	4121	7.1
Females Aged 30-44	589	7.2
Aged 45+	2617	7.3
Males Aged 45+	2271	7.3
Females Aged 45+	346	7.4
IMDb staff	5	8.7
Top 1000 voters	466	7.0
US users	3581	7.2
Non-US users	5892	7.1
IMDb users	12640	7.2

This is the breakdown of the audience from the thriller "The last seduction" Our thriller is much similar to this one and it has the same idea behind it. From this information we can deduce that This movie mostly attracted males and also it attracted males between the age range of 30-44.

We are  hoping to attract a large target audience like this although our target audience is of a different age range we are hoping that we can attract a wider audience of this age. Our Target audience is younger because our version is more modern compared to "The last Seduction". However it shows that we are on the right path because from this information we can see that we are aiming to attract the same gender of target audience this is because this is the type of movie that males like watching.

Although the audience of "Basic Instinct" was mostly 30-44 year old males however our target audience is between 18 and 29 year old males and this has a relatively large audience especially compared to 18-29 year old females this shows that we would attract our primary secondary audience.

However it also shows that our secondary target audience is going to be larger than our primary target audience. And it also assures us more that we are on the right track for initially targeting a male audience because in two movies that I have researched "The last Seduction" "Basic Instinct" have shown that makes prefer this type of movies as there is a larger male audience in comparison to the female audience attracted.

We are also trying to appeal to the middle and upper class. This is because they will have more disposable income and if they manage to like the movie their likely to give it good publicity towards other upper class and middle class people which will make our movie successful. So they would not mind trying out a movie that does not have pre-sold elements such as well known actors  or a well known director and also a movie that is not high concept and does not have recent/previous movies to bank on. For example The dark knight rises has The dark knight which was successful. That encouraged people to give the dark knight rises as chance.

However we might get mostly working class people because we plan on getting our movie distributed by a UK company which does not have the best record for distributing good successful movies apart from Streetdance 3D and Monsters. So it is likely that it will be cheap to buy or watch the movie at cinema and working class people are seen to like buying low priced things. So we might just end up getting majority of our viewers from the working class.

Votes	Average
Males	73091	6.9
Females	13170	6.7
Aged under 18	197	7.5
Males under 18	136	7.7
Females under 18	61	7.1
Aged 18-29	32208	7.0
Males Aged 18-29	26719	7.0
Females Aged 18-29	5489	6.9
Aged 30-44	41518	6.8
Males Aged 30-44	36360	6.9
Females Aged 30-44	5158	6.6
Aged 45+	10307	6.9
Males Aged 45+	8788	7.0
Females Aged 45+	1519	6.7
IMDb staff	11	6.7
Top 1000 voters	757	6.9
US users	19687	6.8
Non-US users	66574	6.9
IMDb users	104499	6.9