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Period Dramas Audience

The target audience for Period Dramas are women aged 17-55
They are attracted to this genre mostly throughout the strong female roles that are usually presented and the common romantic story lines in films like pride and prejudice.
The audience expectations are for there to be a range of tines throughout the film but the end to be happy.
Women in this roles are usually portrayed in two polar opposite ways, either extremely headstrong and powerful or powerless in a patriarchal society.
Men in period dramas are usually presented as powerful and heroic, they generally add the romanticism to the films.

                




               

Winstanley Audience Statistics

• This film is most popular with males
• The age group in which it is most popular is 30-44
• It is also popular with females aged 45+

Persuasion Audience Statistics

• This film is most popular with Females
• the age group of females in which it is most popular is females aged 30-44
• the age group of males in which it is most popular is males aged 45+

Jane Eyre Audience Statistics

• Jane Eyre is most popular with females aged 30-44
• It is also very popular with females over the age of 45
• The male age group in which it is most popular is Males aged 45+

Rembrandt Audience Stats

• This film is most popular with females
• The age group in which it is most popular is females aged 45+
• it is also popular with males aged 30-44
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The Young Victoria Audience Statistics

• The Young Victoria is more popular with females but only marginally
• It is most popular with 18 and under year old females
• It's most popular with females 18-29
• It is also popular with females aged 45+
• it is most popular with males within 45+

The Young Victoria

Overview

Within a month or so after her 18th birthday, Princess Victoria ascends to the throne on the death of her uncle, King William IV. She did not have a happy childhood, forced to live under what became known as the Kensington Rules: she was never allowed to be alone or play with other children, slept in the same room as her mother and was not permitted to walk on a staircase without someone holding her hand. Her mother's private secretary, Sir John Conroy, tried to force her to sign an agreement that would make her mother Regent until Victoria reached the age of 25. Despite the pressure and physical threats, she stood her ground and refused. As Queen, Victoria starts off well and now independent of her mother, makes her own rules. She does commit a grave error however when she rejects the new Prime Minister's request that he name her new ladies in waiting and he resigns leading to riots in the streets. She had already met the handsome Prince Albert and they eventually marry but troubles arise early on when his role in her life is called into question. The Queen finds a solution and theirs proved to be a very happy relationship.

A shot is heard in the distance and then there is a panning shot of the royal guards 

the story of the birth and background of queen elizabeth is shown on a black still frame

 a panning shot is shown of queen elizabeth reading books

 a medium shot of Elizabeth looking at dolls

while there is a medium shot of Elizabeth playing hopscotch, there is a voice over in which Elizabeth talks about her oppressed life as a princess, saying that most girls dreams have turned out to be her oppressor, she talks about how her mother makes sure that her food is tasted before she eats it and restricts her from reading popular books.

This film conforms to the codes and conventions of period dramas as it is based of the true story of queen Elizabeth, it also is very historically accurate in settings, props and location. Like most period dramas this film challenges the social norms at the time, the world thought that Elizabeth was too young to take the thrown, she on the other hand, was determined to prove them wrong.

The target audience for this film, in my opinion would be people interested in the life of royals and other historical characters and also people that are interested in films that give extremely historically accurate accounts of periods of british history.

Persuasion

Persuasion is a 1995 film by Sony Pictures Classics and BBC Films.


Overview 

Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick, because his sister is Mrs. Croft. Frederick is now a rich and successful Captain, and a highly eligible bachelor. Whom will he marry? One of Anne's sister's husband's sisters? Or will he and Anne rekindle the old flame?

 The film enters on a shot of a sinking boat

 There is then a close up of the oars of a rowing boat with the first title of the film

 it then moves to a medium shot of rowing boat with another title

 there is then a new location as it moves to the grounds of a stately hope with sheep in the front garden and the title of the film

 we then return to the nautical shots with another close up of the oars

 there is then an extreme long shot of the sail boat accompanied by some larger ships in the distance and another title

finally there is a shot of the spokes of a carriage and it tells us that the music was an original score for this movie by composer jeremy sams

The target audience for this film are people interested in literary adaptations through film as Persuasion is a famous Jane Austen novel.

The opening also shows that there are two parallel stories and two different locations, the sea and the grounds of a stately home.

This film conforms to the codes and conventions of a period drama as it is a literary adaptation, it is also strong in the sense of mise en scene with the costume and location, the characters are dressed in traditional 18th century dress and the location of the stately home really supports the time in which the film is set.

Rembrandt

Rembrandt is a 1936 film the director Alexander Korda 

overview

This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

Rembrandt is a british biographical film made by LFP of the life of 17th Century Dutch painter Rembrandt Van Rijn.

 

Titles- The titles are shown over black and white pictures in a basic font

The credits to the film are also shown before the film as opposed to the end.

There is a scrolling story which gives the audience the context to the film, we are told that the story is set in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and follows the story of Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, a dutch painter and etcher who is described as the "greatest painter that has ever lived"

The target audience for this film would be people interested in biographical films or people interested in famous painters as this film is based on apparently the worlds greatest painter. 

This film conforms to the codes and conventions of period dramas as it is based upon a real story.

Codes and Conventions of Period Drama