Portfolio Project: Genre and Target Audience

     For this project, I will be creating the premise for a 5 episode episodic documentary focused on stories of grief and recovery. Due to the serious nature of the topic and the genre being a documentary, I believe that my target audience will be a little older than some of my pervious projects. I will be focusing on more of a millennial audience (about 28 - 34 years old) as this is likely to be the group that is most receptive to what I am creating.  Furthermore, I believe that millennials tend to be more compassionate and open to understanding, which I believe would allow them to enjoy this documentary more than other, more closed-minded, generations of viewers.

    I also believe that this project will be more targeted toward a lower-to-middle socioeconomic population. However, the audience will be streaming service users only as this would not be a project that is capable of being released into theaters. My intention is to make it a sort of limited series. I think that these socioeconomic groups would connect best with the topic at hand and may have even experienced some of the stories within their own lives.

    I think that my target audience would have the traits of compassion, empathy, emotional intelligence, etc. that would allow them to connect deeply with my documentary and truly understand and take in the stories that are being shared throughout the duration of my project.