Audience Profile - Lesson 4 Homework

Audience Profile 1 - Bowling for Columbine

Name: JAMES PARK

Age: 25.

Gender: MALE

Ethnicity: White American

Educational background: Doctor

Location: United States

Martial Status: Married

Occupation: Critical CARE

Income: $281,000 a year

Favourite TV programme: Medical programs and surgeries

Demographic:  A - Higher managerial and professional

Religion: Christian

Interests: He like to play football and watch TV

Nationality: American


Bowling for Columbine I felt that the film is fit for more of a mainstream audience because the documentary's purpose was to spread awareness about gun violence in United States and how easy it is to get a weapon in some states, also a mainstream audience because it has been released outside the country that it was created in to show other people for example in Europe how the violence and criminal are getting worse, in terms of age group I will say 16+ or over due to again the sensitivity of the controversial subject of violence and gun fire. Moore was able to widen his target audience by having his film shown not only at film festivals but also on a global scale which his documentary will be recognize every where and Michael Moore's viewpoint as he's openly mocking Americas gun policy and this is not right he want to get rid of violence by making this documentry and open eyes to all people in U.S

Audience Profile 2 - Lift

Name - Alex Smith

Age - 25.

Gender - Female.

Ethnicity - White British 

Educational Background - Studying Film, TV and Broadcasting at Ravensbourne University in London.

Location - London Bridge, Greater London.

Marital Status - Single.

Occupation - Full time job in BBC.

Income - £8.57 per hour.

Favourite TV programme - Friends.

Demographic - C2 - Skilled manual workers

Religion - Christian 

Interests - Running, tennis, fashion, music, painting and sketching.

Nationality -British. 


The Lift documentary in terms of what conventions were used to target certain audiences, in my conclusion that the target audience can be described and niche because the reason being the documentary was focuses of the lives of residents living in a flat in East London. In The Lift, this short documentary was aimed at a much older audience than it was in the documentary Bowling for Columbine, but the documentary important topics were discussed by Marc Isaacs such as one of the residents past and how he was about to cope with it, the target audience for this film would be that of an older audience. Marc Isaac looking through his style of directing and editing it's shown the main focus of his projects are on the people not himself which is why he makes on screen appearances infrequently in his documentaries and he want to direct camera at audience only.