GCSE Media Action Adventure Lesson 5 -Audience

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To develop an understanding of a range of different audience terms To id entify the audience of action-adventure films Learning Objective:

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GCSE Media Studies, Action Adventure, SOW, Yr 11, OCR

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• To develop an understanding

of a range of different audience terms

• To identify the audience of

action-adventure films

Learning Objective:

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How can audiences be broken down?

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Who are action-adventure films usually aimed at?

• What makes you think this?

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UK cinema - Audience by age and gender

Information from www.cinemauk.org.uk

Age

% 7-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+ overall

male 10 15 10 9 4 3 51

female 9 13 7 9 6 5 49

overall 19 29 17 18 10 9 100

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Activity• Watch the following clips taken from a range of

action-adventure films.

• See if you can identify the target audience – gender, age, interests?

• Support your answer with specific examples.

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Reviewing Answers

• What did you find out?

• Who do you think is the main target audience for action-adventure films?

• Do they fall into the 29% of cinema goers between the ages of 15–24?

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Going Against the Grain

• Watch the next clip.

• Do you think the target audience for this film is someone other than men?

• What about the film’s secondary audience?

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Homework• Write a presentation outlining your film idea.

• You must cover the following points - so use them as subheadings to structure your presentation:– Narrative – What is the film going to be about?– Iconography – How will we know it is an action-adventure film?– Characters – What type will you use? Which celebrities will star

in it?– Setting – How will this connote action?– USP – What is your unique selling point?– Audience – Who is the target audience?