Audience Feedback

We organised my media class and another media group to join together and give feedback on our thriller opening sequences. What we did was sit in a classroom, and on youtube we brought up all the different thriller opening sequences. When my groups came up, this is the feedback we gained from people:

Evaluation Task 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaliuation Task 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

Here, me and Laura (from my group) added annotations about some technical terminology of things we used in filming and editing our thriller. They pop up in shots that we could talk about things we did as a group when, like I said, filming or editing.

Evaluation Task 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

• The ways in which we attracted our audience was to create a sense of mystery; we did this by never showing the face of the man in the sequence as it created suspense as the audience can not see his face which doesn't give us his identity. We only ever see his feet, hands etc.

 

 

 

 



• We also created interest when the man in the sequence is looking at pictures of young/teenage girls. Keeping in mind our target audience (which includes teenagers), this addresses them as it may make them feel uncomfortable as they're similar age group so they can relate to this by the discomfort of him looking at younger teenagers.

 

• Our setting for our thriller is in a basement, and within the basement there is a lot of professional technology used such as: a camera, an Apple Mac laptop etc. This instantly creates a level of interest as the man is using professional equipment and looking like he is busy and on top of what he is doing; again, this creates interest for the audience as they want to know what he is doing with all the technology. I thought this would attract our older target audience members.  

 

Evaluation Task 4: Who would be the target audience for your media product?

We are going to interview people in the categories of these age groups:

Boys and Girls: 15 - 20 years old

Men and Women: 21 - 39 years old 

Men and Women: 40 + years old 

I was assigned to take interviews for the age group 15 - 20 year olds and asked them the following questions:

1. How old are you?

2. What is your favourite genre of film?

3. What do you expect to see in a thriller?

4. What do you like about thrillers? 

5. Tell me your favourite thriller and why? 

6. Would you go to watch a movie about my thriller? (- a man who kidnaps a girl, hiding her in a basement, interrogating her, filming her and sending footage to the father for revenge).

This is the information I got from the interviews of the age group 15 - 20 year olds (Boys and Girls):

People like thrillers that have suspense plot lines with twists. They like to see good actors. They like to see some action and pace. The 2 films that were suggested were: 'Disturbia' and 'Taken', 2 which I have researched on. This is because they have lots of suspense and action. From the interviews I was told that people would watch my groups thriller as it seemed like it had similar themes and structure to the films 'Taken' and 'Disturbia'. They said the idea of kidnapping would create a lot of suspense to an audience.

This is me interviewing this age group...

15 - 20 years:

(The rest of my groups research on 21 - 39 year olds and 40 + years)

40+ years:



21 - 39 years:




Overall, a lot of people said that they would watch our thriller from all different ages both men and women. However, from the task where my group interviewed different age groups on their opinion towards thrillers and our thriller, we figured out that our target audience had a stronger, definite response from Men in the age group between 15 - 30 years old making it our primary audience.