target audience?

[large michael]

i would have thought he made it to express himself, only studio movies tend to have a target audience, dont they? i may be wrong, possibly. What certificate is it?

[marksherbert]

It's a 15. I'd agree with the man Large though, I doubt a director like Shane aims his films toward any specific audience.

[PatrickCoyle]

largemichael said:

i would have thought he made it to express himself, only studio movies tend to have a target audience, dont they?

You're right about the target audience focus being a studio thing. Well, I suppose those shitty straight-to-video genre cheapies do it and all, maybe even moreso. I guess it's something the bean-counters and financiers are thinking of, wanting to fund a film that sells. But I'm not sure that's true in Shane's case, as his films thus far have been funded as artistic rather than commercial enterprises.

So Romeo Brass probably wasn't made with a target audience in mind. I think it's the distributors of films like Shane's that have to decide who the target audience is (probably with the input of the filmmaker), and market accordingly. But the distribution and marketing of Romeo Brass was fucked up pretty royally.