My individual analysis on what we found from our audience research!! :D :D
Our target audience is age 14 onwards, and any gender. Therefore we asked a variety of different students from our school, both older and younger than us. This enables us to get an idea of what our target audience like to see in thriller films, and what they don't like to see!
Heres my evaluation of the questionnaire results:
Q.1 It's good that we got all 'yes' so we know the results are from people that take an interest in thrillers as opposed to just guessing and making up answers.
Q.2 Most people said that their favourite sub genre was 'Psychological'. However our idea for a thriller opening was a hostage sub genre, and I personally think we still should use a hostage situation, because the initial storyline we have come up with would be a suitable opening and also, I think a majority of thriller films are in the Psychological sub genre, so doing a hostage opening will prehaps be more challenging for us.
Q.3 This was a great question to find out exactly what aspects we should include in our opening, our target audience said that violence and a kidnapping definitely make them want to watch on, also a deadline, dialogue and music. However only one person said romance, therefore we will try to include violence, kidnapping, deadlines, dialogue and music in our opening, but not romance!
Q.4 We need to ensure we don't do any of the things people said would make them not want to watch on in our thriller opening. So I have come up with ways of trying to make sure none of these things happen!
-Bad editing: Thoroughly check editing throughout the editing process, perfect any match on action, special effects, continuity etc!
-Bad acting: Decide on specific actors, and discuss as a group any directions and dialogue each actor has to say or do!
-Bad special effects: We won't be using many special effects, if any, apart from title and credits, however we will make sure these fit with the theme of the opening.
-Obvious storyline/too much information revealed/boring storyline: To ensure we don't give away too much information, but enough to make our opening make sense, we will storyboard and plot the opening thoroughly so ensure it hooks our audience and makes them want to watch more!
-Death: Our storyline has no deaths in it, as we felt this may not hook the audience as much as we want, also the suspense and tension in our opening will be due to the audience not knowing if characters are going to get killed or not.
-Too many characters: Although this is not a specific amount of characters, our initial idea does not have an excessive amount of characters, and due to this answer we will keep it in mind when deciding on our final characters.
-Slow to start: As we only have a specific amount of time, we will need to make our opening grab our audience, therefore it definitely wont be slow starting!
Q.5 As these are some of the answers our target audience gave us, I will definitely look at each of the openings of these thrillers and analyse them, hopefully getting some good ideas that may give us inspiration for our opening!
Q.6 After looking at these results, I think we should have music that starts slowly, and as the tension builds the pace and volume should build, leading to a fast, tense, climatic ending. This music would fit all the things our target audience said they liked in thriller opening music!
Q.7 Although most people chose 'busy city' for a preffered setting, this was not a setting we imagined for our thriller opening and it would not fit with the opening we have planned. Our opening is set in a warehouse and family home, and some of our target audience did choose these settings so I think they will still enjoy our film just as much.
Q.8 Looking at our results, we will keep in mind all of these answers and therefore our antagonist will most likely be;
-male (due to the majority vote this, our antagonist will definitely be male)
-psychotic (again a majority vote),
-we will try and make him unexpected but due to the short time we have there isn't time to develop a character therefore characters need to be established quickly.
-young (we had in mind a reasonably young antagonist and our results show that he should definitely be quite young)
Q.9 We were stuck on what title to call our thriller opening so the questionnaire helped us decide, 'deadline' got the most votes, and therefore we will most likely call our thriller opening 'deadline'.
I think the audience research really helped us narrow down certain aspects of our thriller, and gives us a better idea where to start with things like music, characters and settings. Now that we've done some research I will look at some different thriller openings which will hopefully give us some ideas, and then we will be able to start storyboarding and plotting our thriller opening!!!
Our target audience is age 14 onwards, and any gender. Therefore we asked a variety of different students from our school, both older and younger than us. This enables us to get an idea of what our target audience like to see in thriller films, and what they don't like to see!
Heres my evaluation of the questionnaire results:
Q.1 It's good that we got all 'yes' so we know the results are from people that take an interest in thrillers as opposed to just guessing and making up answers.
Q.2 Most people said that their favourite sub genre was 'Psychological'. However our idea for a thriller opening was a hostage sub genre, and I personally think we still should use a hostage situation, because the initial storyline we have come up with would be a suitable opening and also, I think a majority of thriller films are in the Psychological sub genre, so doing a hostage opening will prehaps be more challenging for us.
Q.3 This was a great question to find out exactly what aspects we should include in our opening, our target audience said that violence and a kidnapping definitely make them want to watch on, also a deadline, dialogue and music. However only one person said romance, therefore we will try to include violence, kidnapping, deadlines, dialogue and music in our opening, but not romance!
Q.4 We need to ensure we don't do any of the things people said would make them not want to watch on in our thriller opening. So I have come up with ways of trying to make sure none of these things happen!
-Bad editing: Thoroughly check editing throughout the editing process, perfect any match on action, special effects, continuity etc!
-Bad acting: Decide on specific actors, and discuss as a group any directions and dialogue each actor has to say or do!
-Bad special effects: We won't be using many special effects, if any, apart from title and credits, however we will make sure these fit with the theme of the opening.
-Obvious storyline/too much information revealed/boring storyline: To ensure we don't give away too much information, but enough to make our opening make sense, we will storyboard and plot the opening thoroughly so ensure it hooks our audience and makes them want to watch more!
-Death: Our storyline has no deaths in it, as we felt this may not hook the audience as much as we want, also the suspense and tension in our opening will be due to the audience not knowing if characters are going to get killed or not.
-Too many characters: Although this is not a specific amount of characters, our initial idea does not have an excessive amount of characters, and due to this answer we will keep it in mind when deciding on our final characters.
-Slow to start: As we only have a specific amount of time, we will need to make our opening grab our audience, therefore it definitely wont be slow starting!
Q.5 As these are some of the answers our target audience gave us, I will definitely look at each of the openings of these thrillers and analyse them, hopefully getting some good ideas that may give us inspiration for our opening!
Q.6 After looking at these results, I think we should have music that starts slowly, and as the tension builds the pace and volume should build, leading to a fast, tense, climatic ending. This music would fit all the things our target audience said they liked in thriller opening music!
Q.7 Although most people chose 'busy city' for a preffered setting, this was not a setting we imagined for our thriller opening and it would not fit with the opening we have planned. Our opening is set in a warehouse and family home, and some of our target audience did choose these settings so I think they will still enjoy our film just as much.
Q.8 Looking at our results, we will keep in mind all of these answers and therefore our antagonist will most likely be;
-male (due to the majority vote this, our antagonist will definitely be male)
-psychotic (again a majority vote),
-we will try and make him unexpected but due to the short time we have there isn't time to develop a character therefore characters need to be established quickly.
-young (we had in mind a reasonably young antagonist and our results show that he should definitely be quite young)
Q.9 We were stuck on what title to call our thriller opening so the questionnaire helped us decide, 'deadline' got the most votes, and therefore we will most likely call our thriller opening 'deadline'.
I think the audience research really helped us narrow down certain aspects of our thriller, and gives us a better idea where to start with things like music, characters and settings. Now that we've done some research I will look at some different thriller openings which will hopefully give us some ideas, and then we will be able to start storyboarding and plotting our thriller opening!!!
I was most interested in question four. This was a great question for checking exactly what our target audience wants. It will also help us to sort exactly what wew should include and not include in our thriller opening, which is a great starting point for the discussion process.
ReplyDeleteI agree with question two thoroughly. We should definetly try and incorporate aspects of a psychological thriller film, but also basing it on the lines of a hostage isituation because a lot of the answers said that kidnapping made them want to watch on.
I think these responses will be great when we get started on our Thriller opening because it will show us where we are going wrong and need to improve but also gives us starting points for discussion and maybe about points we han't considered yet.
Overall, I think it is great that all of the questionnaires has come back positive, it shows us people are interested and excited in what we are going to produce, which makes me consider what is going into it a lot more.