Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Audience
Not a lot of people can relate to being transgendered, but I think that everyone can relate to wanting to feel accepted, loved, and understood. This is what we hope will come out of our film, and what will make our audience feel connected. But who will they be anyway? Well, our wish is for our audience to be the youth, we don't want to just "preach to the choir" and we also have to concider how there are a lot of people who will come in with strong judgments before they even see the film. It also is interesting being in the South (I grew up in the North) and I have noticed the audience is quite different... We would like to try to offer a bit of insight and maybe get people thinking about different froms of being in a positve way instead of it being a despicable thing that is not talked about. Besides festivals, we can do podcasts, put it on Youtube, and stream it elsewhere. We could make a website, and create a forum for people to talk about it. We could go to local art house places (in Wilmington Jengo's house) and send it to places that may want to screen it. We could talk to women's studies dept and see if they would host a screening for our film andother gender related films. What would be really cool, (but would take some $ and time) is to go around town and leave the DVDs places, maybe have a really intriguing label on them, or even pass them out on campus.
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Fabulous! Its always good to face what audience limitations there may be, but then to also realize how many great opportunities to reach people there are out there. I think Alan Berliner said somewhere that for any film you make there IS an audience...you just have to find it.
Good work.
Let's find it! lol I think also if we put everything we have into the project and come out with something insightful, getting an audience will be easier. On the other hand, I guess we need to decide exactly who it is we want to target. Otherwise, we might try to please too many.
Hey Lex, have you seen the snickers ad that played during the super bowl? Snickers has now pulled it from circulation because of complaints from gay rights groups. Grab it from youtube before it disappears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oooij6sQYgI
Okay, two more film recommendations. "Southern Comfort" and "You Don't Know Dick"
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