Evaluation Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation question 4

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Cloe & Laure - Type of audience that will be interested in our thriller opening:

Maslows Hierarchy Theory

This images shows the Maslows Hierarchy Theory, in which this is in relation to our thriller opening. In our thriller opening I think that the protagonist may relate to safety and security as this character has very little of this. I think that this theory may be good to analyse a thriller opening as many of the levels may relate to many characters in our thriller opening. Another theory that may relate to the stalker is physiological needs, this is because many typical thriller conventions have stalkers that have needs that may need to be full filled. Many stalkers that have a typical convention is that they want to get the protagonist and get them caught up with their mind games.

Here is a screenshot from facebook, getting feedback from our target audience which is teenagers/young adults. Here I asked the question "what makes a good thriller opening?". Not a lot of people responded but I got the impression that there should be suspense music and thrills. I think that it is important to get feedback from your target audience as this gives an indication to our thriller opening and to see what the public would like to see. 

I think that using facebook is a good way of advertising our thriller opening as many people our age, will be using it and we can get feedback anytime. 

Here is some research we conducted from our target audience:

General Questionnaire

Kerry took a general questionnaire to explore the audiences veiws on film and music so that we can improve and think about my thriller opening. By taking this questionnaire Kerry has now developed a helpful audience profile. It will help us when creating my opening as it means that we have more knowledge on the type of music and films people prefer and how to capture their attention when watching my thriller opening. The results show that different age ranges and genders influence peoples likes and dislikes. Below shows the questions Kerry asked in her questionnaire.

                                                                                                             

General Questionnaire.

1.)What film genre do you prefer?  

2.) What age bracket do you fall into?

3.) Do you buy films online?

4.) How often do you go to the cinema?

5.) Are you male or female?

6.)What is your favourite film?

7.)Who is your favourite actor?

8.) Do you own more than five  DVDs?

9.) What genre of music do you listen to most?

10.) What was the last film you saw?

 From completing this questionnaire Kerry found that the younger people she surveyed preferred rock and pop music and owned more DVDs and brought more films online. Whereas the older people she surveyed went to the cinema more and preferred more romantic and comedy films. Kerry gave out her questionnaire to 15 people and received a variety of results, however she found similar results to those of similar ages. This could show that nowadays the media around us has changed and influenced us differently. We have learnt that when creating my film we need to attract our target audience because if we don't refer to what they want to watch it wont appeal to them. This task has helped me to understand that we need to make sure my film will captivate my target audience. From these results we will develop this further into a specific questionnaire as well as a one to one interview.