2. THEATRICAL
The social realism ďŹlm Fish Tank was shown at Barbican cinema,ArnolďŹni centre in
Bristle, the national ďŹlm centre in London and Manchester cornerhouse. Social
realism ďŹlms are more shown in art house cinemas which are more attracted to
artistica"y minded, higher educated , and more cultura"y developed people. However,
in my ďŹlm i am trying to break away #om being pigeon holed only in art house
cinemas, however my primary audience is sti" the inte"ectual audience. But I want to
have a bi%er choice of audience as my ďŹlm is not just aimed at people who are
familiar with social realism. I have made my ďŹlm more open to the theatrical
audience by adding in a young, attractive, male to my ďŹlm who does running for a
sport, this wi" attract my audience because a lot of young people are interested in
sports. This is much like whatAndreaArnold did with the social realism ďŹlm Fish
Tank.
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3. ONLINE
There are a number of diďŹerent sites people can watch ďŹlms on such as; IMDb,
LOVEFILM, MUBI etc. Members of these sites can comment and review and ďŹlm they
want to watch, there is also message boards where people can discuss and ask questions for
other users to answer. These websites are usua"y aimed at people of who are familiar with
the term social realism; however some new members may come across these ďŹlms and dislike
them because they are not use to them. People who are familiar with the genre use key terms
such as; âGritty and Grimâ, and o(en refer to other social realism ďŹlms: âHaving seen
Tyrannosaurâ. This te"s us that the audience are serious, interested n speciďŹc ďŹlms and wi"
take the time to search for new ďŹlms.
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4. TELEVISION
There are diďŹerent Television channels that are screening social realism ďŹlms, such as;
BBC, BBC Four and Film4. These types of ďŹlm are aimed at audiences that are more
highly educated and art cultural.
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5. RADIO
Social realism is explored on diďŹerent types of radio
stations such as; BBC radio 3, BBC radio 4 and open
cinemas. We know that the audience for these stations
are already familiar with social realism as they talk
about diďŹerent social realism ďŹlms on air.
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7. TARGET AUDIENCE
RESEARCH
My own target audience research has taught me that more people that are familiar
with the genre of social realism would most likely consume my ďŹlm. To gain that
result I had asked a sma" group of 13 teenagers in my school to see their honest opinion,
half of them said that they were familiar with the genre but half said they wasnât.
However, the people that did not have a clue what social realism was then said that
they was prepared to watch a social realism ďŹlm a(er I explained to them what the
genre rea"y meant.Another result was that people at the age range of 16-18 years old
as they could resemble themselves with my ďŹlm.
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