Evaluation

A target audience is important to a film as the film maker knows what to put into the film to meet the expectations and wants of their target audience to make them want to watch the film and continue watching throughout the whole film and also we know what plot and characters we could use. The target audience also helps what certificate age the film would get as the film would hopefully be more appealing to the target audience than anybody else. Me and my group have decided to use a target audience of 15-20, and the age certificate that we would use is 15 as 15 years and below would not appreciate or understand the concept of our film as much as people above the age of 15.

Me and my group carried out a questionnaire, we decided to use a questionnaire as we believed when we came to look at the data we obtained it would be more clear and quick as it is a paper based self-report meaning it would be very quit to analyze the data and make pie charts and bar charts. We surveyed 40 people and we each had 10 questionnaires each to share the workload around the group. We also made sure that we each handed out a questionnaire to 5 males and 5 females so we could get the views of both males and females so then we could make a thriller for both genders and not just one. We handed out the questionnaires to people of various ages (12-45) as we wanted to see what target audience we would want to use as the information we collected let us make an educated decision.

We have also done vox pops, we video interviewed 5 people of many ages (14-45) with 4 males and 1 female. We decided to use vox pops and we could look over their answers that they gave us and take them into consideration for our thriller film to appeal to as many people as possible. We asked 5 questions to each participant and after detailed analyze of the interviews we incorporated many things into our group narrative and what conventions we are going to use within the thriller, our vox pop was very successful and it helped us a lot to see what we need within our thriller to appeal to our target audience.

All together in our vox pops we asked 5 questions to each participant. One of the questions were 'how old are you? and are you male or female?' this question helped us to see if our target audience had the same idea of what to incorporate into a thriller as we did and if they did not then we would have to change our idea it also helped us see if both males and females liked the same things, if they didn't then we would have to incorporate scenes for males and females. Another question is 'what conventions of a thriller are important to you? for example a female attacker. enigmatic opening or a violent opening scene' This question helped us to choose what conventions of a thriller that people like the most so when we are filming our thriller film the conventions that are most loved are in our thriller film to appeal to the wide variety of people. We also asked 'what is your favourite thriller film' this question helped us to see what sub-genre to use and what sort of acting they like so our group can try and act like them.

As a group we had to change our idea of what sub-genre to use as we were going to use extreme gore as our target audience was 15-18 and both males and females but we found out that females do not like extreme gore very much and we decided to change it but we decided to not be so gory and only a little bit a gore in our film this would mean that our thriller film would be appealing to our target audience and both males and females.