The opinions we got from our target audience (15-30 years old) was that the film should contain more gore than necessary within a conventional thriller film. Although the idea behind the interviews and questionnaire's was to take opinions and comments and apply them to our thriller opening, I feel the gore element of our film should not exist, as our thriller is based heavily on audience assumption, and that the story line should not be over described with visual effects.
We were looking for answers to our questions, as ones that would provide us with a greater knowledge on how to enhance more psychological factors into our opening. Things such as use of focus, and off screen sounds would help to produce some effects we may have been looking for, although I feel our questions were too broad for this, especially as some of the younger ages in our target audience were intent on seeing every gory detail.
The interviews proved more effective than the questionnaires, as we were able to let the participants elaborate further into their answer. Sometimes their answers were too vague, so through more of a cognitive typed interview, we were able to help guide them in a direction that may be of some use to us, and a way in which we could adapt our thriller opening. Between these questions, and some peoples comparisons to other thriller films, we feel that our thriller opening shall benefit greatly, from a range of different ideas that we may not have initially thought of.
Well done, it is clear that your research has really helped to inform your decisions.
ReplyDeleteNow provide evidence from your questionnaire with the data and questions. Do you have a video clip from any of the interviews you could upload?