Making a questionnaire would help us decide what the our target audience wanted us to create. knowing this would make for a better film.
We arranged the results in a series of Graphs...
As you can see our target audience is predominantly male, this will lead us to make our film aimed more at men rather than women. Despite the male dominance we want to aim our film at women as well as doing this will broaden our films popularity. It will be mainly male orientated though...
Our film is aimed at people ( mainly men ) ages between 15 - 24 meaning the BBFC will be 15, the people we gave the questionnaire out to fit perfectly in this criteria.
Having asked our audience what their favourite thriller is, it will help us make similar codes and conventions in our film. Taken was the overall winner meaning we should probably have some fighting scenes, weapons and not a basic plot line which isn't over confusing, easy to follow.
This is a vital question to ask as we need to establish whether our target audience actually watches thriller, if they didn't then we would of had to alter what genre we would make our film, but as you can see a substantial amount watch thrillers.
We need to know what conventions our target audience would like us to use. Tension was the resounding winner, meaning we must build up tension throughout our trailer to interest our audience. Action and Death closely followed, as we have already established through the audience liking Taken out of all the Thrillers out there which has a lot of action and death, we must also prioritise these two conventions. despite blood and fast paced being the least favoured we will include them but on a lesser scale.
Another important question, whether our audience actually likes the sound on what we intend to make, a thriller drama. We feel this hybrid genre will work well together as it can build up tension and have a lot of action but at same time give a real depth into the lives of the characters so that the audience connects and has feelings for them. This would be a vital thing to have when watching Redemption.
Of course, Dramatic was the winner, this shows us that our audience not only enjoys thriller and drama but understands the conventions behind it. the fact that it is a thriller will make it exciting as this also a key convention. An unusual answer was "soaps", this is very weird if you were to think of it as just a thriller but as its drama as well there must be a depth to the characters lifestyle and backgrounds, this will make it "soap-like" and create the verisimilitude and realism.
This question was more or less top of our list, if seeing a trailer didn't make the audience want to go and see the film then what would be the point of making one! fortunately everyone said yes meaning we could proceed with our teaser trailer.
The data we collected here was a bit mixed meaning would would most likely have to use all 5 of these trailer conventions as they are all vital.
