Planning: Target Audience Feedback

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My group made a survey about our film openings and what people would think of it. Our survey also included about peoples fears, what conventions they think are most important and if they like horror films overall. This will give us an idea of what people will like our film and if they would go and see it or not.

I have also analysed the results i got from asking some people and i will be using the results to see if we can make some slight changes that may make the film better.

This is the first question and out of the 6 people i asked, all of them were between 16-21 and our film is aimed at that age range as well so most of them may seem interested when answering.

The second question was the gender and all of the people i asked were male, this is a mistake by me because i think i should've asked a few females as well because they may have different views.

This is the third question which was asking people what opening they preferred and majority of the people preferred the first one and people have gave their reasons for choosing the specific opening in the next question.

This was the fourth question which is carried on from the third question which is their reason for selecting that opening. There were different types of feedback but majority of the people said that the first one looked better than the second one or they said the first one seems like a good idea and very interesting.





This was the fifth question and this was about how important the conventions given and the other image is what people answered what and most people think that a secluded location is very important, this may be because there is nobody around to help them if they get in trouble. But most people think strange are not important, this may be because strange noises are very predictable because when there is a strange noise something can happen. I myself think it is important.

This is the sixth question asking people what their fears are and there were some weird fears that people have, an example would be someone is scared of octopuses but some are quite expected for example a crazy killer and ghosts.





This question was about how many times people go to the cinema per month and everybody put 1-2, this may be because they want to go more but may not be able to afford it or there are no films out that may appeal to them.







A lot of people liked horror films because they liked some of the conventions that were involved that may possibly make the film even more exciting for the audience, one person put no because they may not like all the blood and gore that gets used and other conventions.

This was the final question and it was to see what are peoples favorite horror movies, i asked this because then i will get a good idea of what i can use I,e the conjuring and the woman in black have a lot of jumps in and some people said that, so by asking this question, it can help us when creating so we know what to go for and try and make it enjoyable but scary for the audience if they were to see it.

Planning: Who Are The Target Audience?

Our film opening is targeted at people within the age range of 15-21. This meant to be aimed at people who like films that are unexpected with jumps because a lot of people like getting the feeling of being jumped because some people find it a lot more exciting than a lot of other films.

For example a person like Kiain would like this because Kiain enjoys horror movies and likes the uncertainty of what may happen such as jumps. Kiain also has a job so he can afford to go to the cinema to watch these types of films. He is also 16 so he would have no worries into getting in the film which has a certificate rating of 15.

Planning: Potential Openings

Our task was to discuss 2 different film openings. The picture shows the ideas.

Opening 1

The first film opening was an establishing shot of the dense forest which shows the location and it is set in the past. Its is about a young vulnerable character who decides to go into the forest and then they start to get chased by an unknown killer and the character gets caught after trying to escape the killer.  We have chosen to do this because it is meant to make the audience a bit frightened because the audience are meant to feel that more people are going to die in this film. We are going to use diegetic and non-diegetic sound throughout the opening because it will give it a better effect.

Opening 2

The second film opening we came up with was that a group of friends are watching TV and the TV starts to flicker black and white with some white noise we are going to use to make seem more uncomfortable for the audience and to make it even more uncomfortable, a silhouette walks past and the audience sees it but the characters don't. This is in one of the characters house before they go camping and this is meant to represent the dangers of each character as they go out into a dangerous place.

Planning: 60 Second Pitch

We were asked to pitch our film idea which was called "The Watcher". In this pitch we mentioned what the film was about, who it was aimed at and why people should go and watch it. We also used our planning ideas in the pitch.