How Do Kids Choose Movies
How Do Kids Select Movies
How do children select their movies? It’s a question many parents ask themselves. Young children (and many adults) are so stressed about watching apiece motion picture the minute it hits the huge screen that enormous queues are formed and tickets sell out before you even get half way to the door.
40 years ago, movies were not a huge part of each day life. In the 60’s, children spent more time outside, or reading and socialising than they do today. Movies back then were a luxury not everyone could afford. When it could be afforded it was only ever at the cinema. Over the past 40 year period, motion picture watching habits have changed dramatically. In 2000, there was a major shift. From one channel TVs and occasional cinema outings, now-a-days children can watch any of a number of different channels and going to the cinema is a common occurrence. In the past few years, motion picture watching has become very favourite and simple to access; families can borrow movies from the video store, from the library, download them from the world wide web and watch than in the comfort of their home. New movies come out in the cinema each week.
WHY do children select movies?
Today, movies have become a measurement of social standing. Kids who haven’t seen a certain motion picture are “way uncool”, and are perfectly aware of what they have missed out. The other children in their class will make them aware of exactly what goes on in each movie. This creates a lot of pressure on parents. All you need to do to comprehend how serious the pressure is, is simply see the huge queues at the cinema on the release dates of each new movie. It is very hard for people, and especially young children to move a week or two weeks after the release of a new motion picture to go and see it. Just the thought of missing out, or being the last mortal to see the motion picture is quite stressful.
There are many movies targeted at young children that come out regularly. For motion picture makers, children’s’ movies are a great investment since young children are such a huge market. Each time children go to a movie, at least one grownup must join them. This more than doubles the profit, not to mention the income of related products that get sold after the motion picture – McDonald toys, figurines etc.
Movies this day are advertised as far back as a year in advance. Posters are place up in each spare space, in shopping centres and food-courts. television ads for certain movies begin as primeval as 6 months before a motion picture comes out. Even 3-year olds can tell you they are going to watch a motion picture that will come out in 6 months. School holidays are especially hard for parents since most movies come out during the school holidays. Sometimes, over a period of two or three weeks or holiday, there are over six movies to watch. In the local cinema there is only a two to three week window in which to watch all the movies that have come out. Young children are afraid to miss out. Missing out is a very hard feeling for young children to deal with and this puts pressure on their parents.
A good way to help parents handle the pressure is to assure children they will be healthy to see the motion picture later. The motion picture will still be there in a week, even too weeks. If its not, it probably wasn’t worth it, and if they still want to see it, it can be borrowed from the video store or downloaded at a much cheaper price. Knowing this will relieve the stress of missing out on that great motion picture that everyone’s raving about and when you go to the cinema, you won’t have to move in line for half an hour and you’ll definitely have a ticket when you get to the desk.
Tsoof and Eden love to download full movies from the Internet.
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