What have you learned from your audience feedback?

How did you respond to the original brief with the audience in mind?

• We responded to the brief firstly by researching our films genre and other films within it. We looked at what the main target audience for our films genre, crime thriller, was and what fans of films in this genre wanted from a film. We decided that our film would be targeted at 15 to 30 year old males. One of the reasons we chose the age 15 for our target audience was thanks to our film fitted into the 15 certificate category with the BBFC and therefore we would not be able to target the film at any people below that age. We then decided that males would be a more appropriate target for our film than females. As our students showed that boys had much more enthusiasm than girls for films with action in it. Also, speaking more about our films actual plot, the film follows the story of 4 male characters, further on that note, there is not a single female character in the film. Therefore, females are less likely to enjoy the film as they may not be able to relate to the film as much as males could and could be put off by the male camaraderie themes of our film.

Pre-production interviews for our film• We conducted interviews, asking people from our

college what they thought about the idea for our film. We asked them questions such as their age, what they thought about our film idea and if they had any suggestions on how we could improve upon our film idea. We originally interviewed 3 sets of people. A pair from our class, a pair from another college class and a single student from another department of college. However, due to the sound quality of the interview with the individual student we had to scrap the footage of his interview and focus on the footage of the two pairs interviews.

Link to YouTube video of our Interview

• http://youtu.be/G5u3S5UqAH8

Interview and choosing the questions• We made sure to take great care when choosing

the questions we would ask in our interview. We wanted to not only know whether or not they liked the film but how they thought it could be improved. I believe that this is important to listen to the people you are interviewing and take their views into account as their views can give an indication as to what people of their age group and gender look for and want in a film. We also wanted to see if people even like the rough idea for our film and whether or not they would want to watch our film.

Feedback from our Interview • The majority of answer about our film we asked in

our interviews were good. The two pairs we interviewed stated that our film idea was good. One pair stated that they loved the idea of the film but thought that it still could be improved while the other pair said that they enjoyed the idea and that it had a lot of mystery to it. Both groups also stated that the storyline was believable and that the general idea and story was good and that they would want to watch the film if we made it.

Online Questionnaire After our film had been completed and then posted to YouTube, we asked several people if they would watch it and then complete a questionnaire about the film. The questions on this questionnaire were similar to the interviews we conducted when our film was in its planning stages. We did this questionnaire to find out if people would still think our film idea was good after it had been put into practise. We also wanted didn’t want to just have face to face interviews because of social desirability (we didn’t want people saying positives about the film just because we were face to face with them). The results, just like the results of our interviews, were good.

Possible Interpretation Problems

• There are several problems with our questionnaire. For example, the majority of the people we asked were already fans of the crime thriller genre, meaning that the film already has an advantage in their eyes. If we had asked more people who did not like crime thrillers, the results we had received could have been very different.

• Another issue could have been that we used set questions, although we did use an additional comments section, we might have learned more about their thoughts on the film if we had, for example had a discussion with the viewer.

What People liked about the film

• The most liked thing in our film, judging from the questionnaire results, was both the use of props in our film as well as the montage scene. Several people stated that they thought the film used props well to say that the filmmakers had little to no budget. The montage scene was praised for speeding the films pace up as well as for its technical aspects.