Target audience results

We sent out a questionnaire to people in our school, family, workplace and people on social media to answer the following questions:

• What is your age?
• What is your gender?
• What is your favourite genre
• Do you skip the titles based on how interesting they look?
• What makes your most likely to watch a film?
• What is your favourite film and why?

After a week of waiting for responses, we finally received results from 18 people.

What is your age?

I asked this question because it would allow us to see what our age audience was and what kind of genre was most popular based upon that. It would also allow us to find out what would mainly be associated with them. This would then lead to giving a better opening scene and hopefully gain there full interest. From asking this question we found out that most people who answered this questionnaire were aged between 15 - 25. This would help as we would then plan our opening based around teenagers to young adults.

What is your gender?

This question was asked to find out if the main people who answered our questionnaire was a male or female and this would then help us to plan. This is because it would mean our main target audience would be based mainly around male 

What is your favourite genre?

By looking at these result the most popular genre was action followed by thriller and crime. Due to these results we are able to focus on a film based around these. We want to focus on the most common response as it would be the best way to reach a high target audience and get more views to for what will be our opening scene. 

Do you skip the titles based on how interesting they look?

The majority of people asked said they would. this would mean that our opening scene must be able to grab the attention of almost everyone watching as it will display possibly a main part of the storyline. Furthermore, we want our opening scene to be eye catching and not bore the audience before the film has started.

What makes you most likely to watch a film?

This question could be considered important as the most common response would be something we would focus on. In this case the most important answer was genre. From and earlier question the most common answer was action,crime and thriller so that would be something we would defiantly make sure our film was based on. Another important factor is then the actor/actress, so because we didn't have anyone famous or well known in our school, we are going to use people within our media group who are skilled at drama. In addition to this, the movie title seemed like an important aspect towards our opening scene so we made a title we considered to be simple but eye catching such as "hooded hero".

What is your favourite film and why?

Some of the responses back were:

• Terminator because its different and exciting
• White house down because its had little moments of comedy whilst action pack
• Dead-pool because hilarious and dangerous.
• Batman Vs Superman as its amazing turnout and keeps you on edge through till the very end.
• Fast and furious 7 it’s thrilling, full of adventure and has heart felt moments
• Star wars as suspense and tense are constantly being built and the technology is incredible
• Back the future because the adventure between the doc and Marty McFly keeps you wondering about what will happen to them both and if Marty will get back to their normal time frame.
• The fault in our stars because magical moments with a sense of humour.
• The conjuring because slow to start but after a while it was moment after moment of heart racing scenes. 

As most of these films are action, crime and thriller we are able to look at them and get ideas as to how to make our film interesting and focus on how these films are popular and filmed shots so we can try to make ours in a similar way.