Target audience and characters 

Drama genre: 

Drama films usually target people aged 45 and over but below that too. This genre tends to grab an audience that likes to feel emotions and like a suspenseful story. Don't know about you but drama films tend to get me on the edge of my seat. Drama films aim to make the audience feel some type of emotion and can even make one shed a tear. 

EXAMPLES OF POPULAR DRAMA FILMS

Characters:

When I first wrote the film opening I was planning on I showed my mom and dad and started to cry because of how deep it was. They ended up loving it and want to help me with the project. I'm still figuring out of I want to use myself or my mother. 

PROS AND CONS OF USING MOTHER: My mom works a lot so it could be hard getting a good time to film her but it definitely could work. Also, my mom's acting might be a little lame cause she is not good at acting. A major pro can be that my mother is the one who screamed at the time she found out about my father, which means she knows all the exact emotions she felt at the time and she could try to show those. Using my mom would mean I would need to change a little bit of the storyline but it won't be that hard.

I could have her getting ready for work in the morning and while she's getting in the car she gets the call. Although this seems easy I feel like having myself do it and getting a text message from my mother to answer the phone might give the audience a better understanding of what is going on.

Focus:

My focus is to get the audience to feel confused after. I want them to have questions like "Why did her mom want her to answer the phone so bad?," "Why did she scream?" and "What did her mom say on the phone?". I want the audience to crave more from the 2-minute opening. 

Resources:

Stephen Follows. (2021, July 6). What films are older cinemagoers watching? Stephen Follows. Retrieved February 16, 2023, from https://stephenfollows.com/what-older-cinemagoers-are-watching/#:~:text=The%20oldest%20age%20group%20here,dramas%20being%20older%20than%2025.

The target audience for drama films: Who loves drama? AMPLIFY XL. (2022, August 21). Retrieved February 16, 2023, from https://amplifyxl.com/target-audience-for-drama-films/