Audience Research

First Audience Feedback

Once we had discuss what our plan for our thriller opening, other groups in our class gave us feedback on strengths and other ideas that could make our opening more interesting.

Strengths:

• Interesting Storyline,
• Good use of setting and unexpected twists,
• Cutting rhythm,
• Appeals to modern audience,
• USP (Unique Selling Point) sounds interesting,
• Conventional Thriller,
• Realistic,
• Slow pace - like Fugitive.

Other ideas:

• Horror rather than thriller,
• Plot cliché - try and make plot unique,
• Create original Storyline,
• Be sure to use camera angles and continuity editing that emphasise her isolation and nervousness/fear,
• Get movie point across.

Second Audience Feedback

Once we had look at the feedback, we decided to use this to our advantage to notify on what we have done that is successful to our target audience, and also what we need to improve to help our target audience to understand our opening.

Third Audience Feedback

This is a reflection on what our target audience replied to our film draft to help use make it better, also on how we have made it successful.

Fourth Audience Feedback

We asked people from our media class which was our target audience some questions for our thriller and we got some useful feedback in which we can use to make our thriller opening more appealing to them.

'What has the film done to earn marks and make it successful?'   

The Feedback was:

· Sound Bridge to show the person is in the same place

· A Montage - shows creativity

· Music on the titles, the fit with the genre

· The range of camera angles

· Sound with the action

· And The framing of the shots

'What would you recommend the directors of the film do in order to improve the film further?'  
The Feedback was:

• To use a range/ more transitions
• To show more creativity
• Tense music at the beginning
• Create our own production company
• To  improve the shake of the camera during the end

This feedback was very useful, as it helped us to improve our thriller opening to make beneficial changes and then to make it to a more desirable quality.

Questionnaire Feedback:

We asked our target audience from outside of our media lesson on feedback from the thriller film so far. We wanted to make a wider audience research because it would show the different opinions from different audiences. This would help us with our thriller opening because it would suit more people and more people would enjoy it and would want to watch the rest of the film.

1) What do you think would make this opneing more interesting?

• You already have a cliffhanger which makes me want to watch the rest of the film.
• I find that your opening is already interesting and i don't think it needs any extra information.
• I think that you could establish that the man is constantly following the girl. 

With these results it was hard to show what we could have done to make the opening more interesting. There doesn't seem like alot of answers that is because most people agreed with each other.

2)  Is there anything in the opening that isn't needed in this opening so far?

• Most of our target audience said no. They think that we have covered the right information and story plot into the opening and that all of the information given is revelant to the meaning and plot of our thriller. 

With this results we were proud that we haven't made the opening too confusing and unclear. We are proud that they find that the information is revelant to what we want to get across.

3) Is there anything neede to make the opening clear and unstandable of the storyline? 

• Following the question before our audience found that the opening was already clear and that there wasn't anything in their opinion that needed any more information to show what we wanted to get across. Our target audience said that we had already made our story clear and understandable on what was going on.

Last Audience Feedback

After we got our feedback we had to decide on what to improve in our final draft.

'How does the person get killed and why?'

We replied we didn't want the mystery to be revealed at the begining so we could get the audience to watch the rest of the film. We wanted to leave our opening on a cliff-hanger to build suspense.

'When it goes straight to the phone, it's a biot confusing where she gone. As it don't show her before the phone call and of the house.'

We replied that we would add a shot of her leaving the house, so that it would be more clear and understandable of what is going on.

'It's not obvious that the murderer turns into a police office.'

We replied that we didn't want to make it clear that the police officer was the murderer. we wnated to keep the audience interested by telling them the muderer later on in the film. this will help craete tension and a conventional twist at the end.