Research - Breaking down audience into categories.

The audience can be broken down into several categories.

1. Age; the age can break down an audience for example 15-18 is one way a audience can be broken down into a specific group. This idea of age can be used for any age group. Another way in which audience can be broken down into age categorise is by putting them under the brackets of particular ages for example 'child' 'student' 'adult' 'pensioner'  
2. Gender; the audience can be broken down into male of female categorise to decide the popularity of a film with a certain gender for example. 
3. Class; social class can be used to break down an audience to understand how a majority of a certain social class prefer a certain genre of film over another. These are the main way in which an audience can be broken down into categories.