Thursday 6 February 2014

Peaky Blinders Audience Targeting

Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders is a BBC 2 Historical Period Drama set in post world war 1 Birmingham which focusses on a notorious gang.
One way that the show attracts an audience is by using hollywood stars. This helps widen the appeal because people are familiar with the actors previous filmography. For example Cillian Murphy as the lead role of Thomas Shelby. Cillian Murphy has been in chistopher nolans batman.

Furthermore the show strives to appeal to both an active and passive audience through the use of advanced cinematography. This high brow stylistic technique helps to define the show and entice a wider demographic. one scene which best displays the shows interesting cinematography is in the second episode of the series where the shelby brothers fight the lea family. The fight is shot in slow motion and 


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