Audience Gratifications

Escapism: This appeals to the audience by letting them escape into the film with the characters, this makes you feel excited and part of it all. This is effective as if it were a great film, it'll be a memorable place to escape to. In our own film, we hope that the audience will be able to escape their routine life and enjoy a fictional and exciting new world.

Identification: This can affect the audience in different ways, one, by allowing the audience to be able to relate to a character or  the audience can wish to be that character for a second-to feel the excitement they get to feel. Another is to relate with a situation, this can leave a viewer feeling empathy or even more excitement if they can relate to it-which again is very gripping, very memorable, and very effective. For our own film, we hope that the audience, who are young adults and students can relate to the protagonist.

 

Social Interaction: If a film is great then people will talk about it. Wherever you go, if someone has seen the same movie as you, then you can discuss more about it thus, being more popular and more memorable. If someone hasn’t seen it, everyone else that has seen it-talking about it, they’ll feel left out and want to see it, especially if what everyone is saying about the film is positive. In our own film, we hope to be able to use conventions that are new and exciting that people would want to discuss. With the postmodern features, it’s likely the audience would want to discuss their own experience of watching the film with others to compare.