- Film audiences greatly increased over time, from short films to feature-length films, and with the introduction of color and sound. In the UK, cinema ticket sales peaked between 1947-1951 at around 1600 million tickets per year. - Since then, UK cinema ticket sales have declined annually as people have alternative entertainment options like television at home. This has led cinemas to increase food and ticket prices to compensate for the reduced audience numbers. - While romance films still primarily target women, the types of women watching has broadened with new subgenres that appeal to different age groups. Films shown from a male perspective have also increased the male romance film audience.

1. AUDIENCE OF FILM AND
ROMANCE FILMS
By Grace Cambridge

2. FILM
Audience for films has changed a lot over the years. Film audiences
increased as from the chance of short kinescopes to feature length
films. It increased again with the introduction of colour and again with
the introduction of ‘talkies’. In 1922, 40 million film tickets were sold per
week but by 1929 this number had increased to 90 million tickets per
week. Film attendance in the UK has slowly fizzled out after a soring
number of tickets were sold between 1947 and 1951 where around
1600 million cinema tickets were sold. This was due to the release of
films such as Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life and Citizen Kane. Also
because nobody owned a television it was the only way to watch the
news so people would go to the cinema to see the news as well as
films.

3. A CHART SHOWING THE CHANGES IN
THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE VISITING THE
CINEMA IN THE UK.

4. AUDIENCE SIZE PER FILM
In the UK as less tickets are being sold per year we gather that there
are less people in the cinema and because of the number of films the
audience number must also be decreasing. This shows that even
though there are more films being produced and they make lots of
money, in the UK less people are viewing them because the number
of tickets being sold is decreasing and the amount of films that are
being shown only receive a tiny portion of the total number of people
viewing the films. This is why you find the price of tickets increasing as
well as everything else you buy at a cinema increasing because the
cinema company and the film producers all need to make money. If
the number of tickets sold increased we many see a decrease in the
price of tickets.

5. AUDIENCES FOR ROMANCE FILMS
The primary audience for romance films hasn’t changed over the
years, they are still mainly aimed at women, the type of women going
to them has changed. With the changes in the genre, such as the
introduction of sub-genres. One example of this is the introduction of
teenage romance dramas where you wouldn’t expect to see older
women watching that you expect to see young women and
teenage girls at that kind of film, and you wouldn’t expect to see
teenagers at a film like pride and prejudice as the film is aimed at an
older audience like women aged between 40 and 50 year old.

6. MALE AUDIENCE
The male audience for Romance Films has increased a lot over the
last few years as more romance films from male perspectives have
been released, films such as That Awkward Moment and Crazy, Stupid
Love. These films have been used to try and create a bridge between
the male gender and films that are mainly aimed a the female
gender. This has been used to try and expand the target audience
and bring in more money for the production company but to also try
and expand the type of people that are viewing these films. The
implied audience for these films was the male gender however many
women also went to see them and this means that without even
meaning to production companies have produced films that appeal
to both the male and female gender.