Planning- Independent vs mainstream institution and target audience

In independent films they tend to have less titles in the title sequence. In lesson we watched beautiful thing and mean girls. Beautiful Thing being the independent film had less titles in the title sequence as they have a smaller budget they tend to have a smaller cast and less backstage crew. For example they had some of the actors names the producer. However, Mean Girls have more titles as it is mainstream. They have more titles such as more cast and more back stage crew due to the larger budget that they have which allows them to have more of a bigger crew and more cast to make the film better.

When Beautiful Thing was released they had an opening weekend box office figures of $33,931. It was also released worldwide through a film festival rather than in cinemas.

When Mean Girls was released on the opening weekend they had a box office figure of $24,432,195. Unlike Beautiful Thing, Mean Girls was released world wide in cinemas as it is a mainstream film.

Target Audiences 

I have researched a few of the target audiences for different films to find out what age range of people watch these movies.

The Inbetweeners 2

Target audience:

Male

18-24

Target audience:

Male

25-39

Different teen films have different target audiences as they wish that the target audience that they are aiming for will keep this movie as their favourite teen film.