Due to the significance of the conflict found in our opening scene, it obviously restricts us in terms of target audience. It would be ideal for our opening to target everyone of all ages. However, it will most likely be watched by teenagers and young adults. Perhaps its because we discuss and explore issues many of the audience can relate to.
An example of a genre which has a selected target audience tend to be romantic comedy. In which the target audience tend to be young girls to young women. An example of a romantic comedy may be "The Backup Plan" featuring award winning actress Jennifer Lopez aka J-lo and Alex O'Loughlin. Released in April 2010, overall making 125 million dollars. Like our future opening, "The Backup Plan" highlights a problem many middle aged, successful, single women face. The need to have a baby. Throughout the movie we discover that eventually she does become lucky and conceive a child however she has to pick between the man (O'Loughlin) or her baby.
We may want to consider just how much romance we wish to include in our Hybrid genre opening. As too much may become stereotypical and to some extent a parody. Also, there are different genres which may attract the However there are various films created to target a niche audience. For example "The Godfather" is mainly aimed at men and perhaps older men. The dark gangster crime filled with action. appeals more to men, having a niche target audience can help, as well as limit your audience. If we chose to create an opening for a niche target audience then we may have to change our genre because by creating a hybrid genre it appeals to more people, by simply meshing two or more genres. It is also another way to introduce those whom may not like genres such as romance and crime.
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On the one hand, our group aim to include romance, we also need to include drama- with particular focus on relationships as the conflict routes from the relationship. One film currently known by various people of all ages (over 12) and has consumed the minds of practically everyone - TWILIGHT. Similarly we aim to follow a similar concept of two people being separate because of boundaries and prejudice.
The Twilight saga first came to our cinema screens in November 2008, and from then has broken numerous records. The first movie Twilight grossed by $382,133,300. Based on a book it highlights the life choices Bella the protagonist has to make in order to stay in a relationship with Edward, who is a vampire. This film will help us gain an idea of what issues we can include to make our target audience varied. issues such as love, adultery. We realise that there is an extent into the issues we input in our opening that may affect various audiences, but also has to have a sense of realism. We aim to input the idea of a forbidden love, beacause it adds the sense of intrigue with the hopes it shouldnt turn out too cliched. Costume and Character Research:
Because our group have decided to create a Hybrid genre we need make our characters as versatile as possible to fit the specific genre. For example, the fact we have chosen to include a drama, and romance we need to be able to create characters that can fit all genres. As we understand a girly blonde rich girl may not fit the idea of being in crime, therefore perhaps we need to create characters that have some sort of grunge-like look. I will be using a mix of description and pictures to help explain and illuminate possible ideas we may want to include in our coursework. To begin with, I will research stereotypical characters in various genres.
General characters in crime:
One example of stereotypical characters in crime are the characters in the film "Taken." the daughter Kim played by Maggie Grace. The stereotypical conventions which I found tend to be the within the victims are the hairtype, which tends to be blonde- there is a great stereotype regarding this heairtype. Normally, the asociation is being more vunrable, even to the extent of being dumb. Blondes are considered less powerful even in most work fields the brunettes tend to be working high in management whislt the blonde girl works as a receptionist.
Here is an example of actress Maggie Grace who played yet again another vunrable girl, who lies to her ex agent father and travels to Paris with her friend where she is abducted by Albanian men. Her costume changes throughout the movie- Perhaps this is to show the gradual exploitation that she goes through.
Here is an image of "Kim" just before she is abducted, notice how she wears a jean jacket which implies girliess, this is then added by the fact she has pink on her sleeves, the colour pink infers youth, in comparison to the picture on the left, in which she is dressed in black and is in her underweare- this is to show that her "innocence" has been taken away from her. We later on find out that the jacket is something important and is a key to her finding.
Here is another image of "Kim" and her father, at the opening scene -her birthday. Notice how her hair is tied up and she is wearing a long dress, with a small hairband and no earings or make-up. Her costume gives the impression of her still being young. This particular image shows her being a "daddys girl" this idea to use costume to help and give the characters personality through the costume is something which our group will do.
