Audience Feedback

To  research what type of opening scene and genre of film that would satisfy our audience, I created a questionnaire on survey monkey and gave the link to 42 people between the ages of 15 to 18 years as this is the age range that we want our target audience to be in. By using websites such as Facebook and Twitter I could recieve quantative data from people which could be very valuable.




This picture shows an example of what one of the questions looked like on survey monkey after all results had been collected.

 

By our results we have found that the majority of people enjoy action, thriller and horror films because the results were equally matched. As a team we thought of doing a crime, gangster genre type of film and put in the elements of an action/ thriller film into it. Also, due to the environment that we live in being near the suburbs of South London, it would seem more realistic for this genre of film to take place here.

We found our that the majority of people (54.8%) preferred if the opening credits were being shown throughout the opening scene of a film, so this is what we will try to achieve in the editing process.

78% of people that completed the survey preferred if there was lots of physical action involved so during our opening scene we will try to include some physical action, i.e, a very short fight scene.

The majority of people preferred if the main character would be male, but this could be an anomaly due to the fact that a higher percentage of male participants completed the survey. But the sex of the main character would be decided by the group depending on what type of film it’s going to be.

A vast majority chose for there to be 2 to 3 main characters in the film, so we must take this into account when creating our story.


So from this we have established that we want…

In my survey I was able to put in a few questions such as this one where I could collect qualitative feedback from my peers. This meant the information would have meant people could express their personal opinions however it would have been much harder to analyse. 

• An action/Thriller type genre
• The film will be based in South London as this area is very easily accessible to us and we all live near each other
• Opening credits to be shown throughout the opening scene
• The title of the movie will be displayed before the opening scene
• There will be physical contact involved, e.g. a short fight scene
• Main character will be male because a male character is more likely to represent our type of movie

Scene starts of with our main character Damien riding his bike through his hometown. He rides past an alleyway and he sees a group of youths hassling/ robbing another young youth. Damien stops, stares for a few seconds but decides to ride off. Then after riding about 25 meters, Damien stops his bike and and while he's facing the camera, we have a close up shot of his face having second thoughts of turning back. 

StoryBoard

Damien leaving his house in his council estate

Damien (mid shot) outside his house getting ready to walk out

(Match on action shot) Damien presses play on his phone which is synchronized with the non diagetic music

Damien is walking through his town roads

Damien sees two youths trying to rob a person

Damien walks away but he stops for a moment and has second thoughts on whether he should help or not

Damien is about to intervene with the confrontation and this is where the opening scene cuts and we see the title of the movie

Anid used an electronic smartboard to create these images as they would has stood out much better than pen and paper when put on the computer.