Audience Theory

In our media lesson we have gone over audience theory and reminded ourselves of the key points. We have related these to our own trailer, for example according to the Blumler and Katz theory our audience would watch our trailer for escapism and entertainment. We looked at the Effects Model, and considered the impact our trailer and film may have on the audience. Due to the violent nature it may be considered to promote violence to the people who watch it, which is something we are trying to control by having a 15 age rating on the film. This being said, the Blumler and Katz theory implies that as humans it is in our nature to be violent, and by watching films such as ours we satisfy our need for it. In this way, our trailer influencing our audience would not be an issue.