Evaluation Question 4

The wider teen movie audience are generally teenagers, some films such as High School Musical being suitable for pre-teens (10-11),17 Again and Mean Girls being more suitable for the younger teenagers (12+) and movies like American Pie and The Breakfast Club for the older ones (15+). 
This is because certain films have certain contents (e.g. sexual contents or bad language) which are allowed to be seen by teenagers of a certain age. Girls tend to watch more teen films due to the main character being a female also and the love interest of the character is often the teen heartthrob of the present day.

Although, some adults do watch teen movies either because the storylines remind them of their own childhood or it contains some older actors.

However, for our teen film, because the sub-genre is a rom-com, it would appeal to both sexes equally; the comedy more relating to the male side, the romantic more the female side. I still think more females will watch it as the main character of the film is a girl, but because the character is of a 'skater' stereotype, this could appeal more to males.

An example of a member of the specific audience would be 'Charlotte', a 19-year old from California who likes bands such as Fall Out Boy, Wheatus and Blink-182. She skates, works at Vans and is a fan of Tony Hawk. She also has Twitter, popular site amongst teenagers.

This is the type of person who I think would watch our teen film.