Media Studies Portfolio: Catching the Fish

Welcome back, guys!! UPDATE TIME! For starters, my partner Carlos and I are having a tough time deciding which genre to do, horror or drama. If you have no idea what I am talking about then you might wanna check my previous posts that talk about all the research I did on drama and if you guys want to know more about horror then let me know so I can give you a link to Carlos’s website which includes all the research about horror.

Anyway, Carlos and I have been leaning a little more towards drama, more specifically romantic teenage comedies as we believe we can come up with some great ideas. The reason we are thinking about sticking with romantic teenage comedies or how teenagers like to call it “Teen Rom-Coms” is because we believe those are the movies that are mostly trending on many apps nowadays like for example, Netflix. Netflix has started to release a lot of original films like “To all the boys I've loved before” and “The Kissing Booth” which of course targets their main audience, teenagers, but we will talk more about those films in my next post. So why has Netflix started to release more originals? Well, by releasing more of their own films, “Netflix will be less dependent on the studios for user retention” and who better than Netflix to release new films since they clearly have the sources to know what their users want, which in this case is…. TEEN ROM-COMS!

To mention other movie sites, Hulu and Amazon are a perfect example as well as they release thousand of romantic comedies as well. To talk a little more about Hulu, this website not only releases original films like Netflix, but it also shows Current Episodes, whereas Netflix users have to wait a while for a whole season to come out.

So as you guys can see I have done a bunch of research on not just romantic teenage comedies, but on what is trending these days so that we know what to focus on and so we are more successful. You know what they say, in order to catch a fish, you have to cheat a little and put some bait on the hook ;)

For more information about other Rom-Coms, I found a really good slideshow that you guys should check out:

https://www.slideshare.net/KieraTolhurst1/target-audience-of-a-romantic-comedy