Monday, 9 December 2013

Teen films with different audiences

The Inbetweeners Movie (2011, England)


The Inbetweeners Movie will have a specific audience because British teenagers can relate to a 'lads/ladettes' holiday after they leave college. Also, the audience will be inherited from the audience the TV series had. The language used and script contains a lot of humour and colloquialisms that only British teenagers will understand and relate to.



Step Up 2: The Streets (2008, Baltimore)


Step Up 2 mixes high school conflicts with dance battles, which brings an even more diverse audience. The particularly good-looking and famous cast, e.g. Cassie and Channing Tatum, feature in the film which would appeal to males and females, for different reasons. It is set in Baltimore with kids from the streets or outsiders in a posh performing arts school, finding their way and themselves through dance. Something teenagers and dancers will understand.



The Breakfast Club (1985, America)


The Breakfast Club was set and released in 1985, so the audience will very different to the audiences for the other two movies. It is set in a typical American highschool that features characters from all different stereotypes (criminal, outsider, geek, jock and 'princess') all facing detention, leaving a lot of the audience able to relate to at least one of the characters. Two of the actors, Molly Ringwold and Anthony Michael Hall, would have brought inherited audiences from their previous film (which was also a teen film), Sixteen Candles.

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