Surveys
For my production production I had to do two surveys. The first survey I did was to find out about my target audience and a small bit bout their film preference. The second survey was to find out what my target audience enjoy in a thriller. For each of the surveys I did I had to get my results and evaluate them. Then I had to work out what to include in my production from the results in my target audience. I think that making a questionnaire was useful, this is because it let me know what my target audience like to watch and using the results means my production will be more enjoyable for my target audience.
The advantages of an online survey:
-Low cost
-Respondents input their own data, and it is automatically stored electronically. Analysis then is easier and available immediately.
-Less time taken up
-Conveinent for respondents, they can answer questions on their schedule, at their pace, and can even start a survey at one time, stop, and complete it later.
-No interviewer, respondents may be more willing to share personal information because they're not disclosing it directly to another person.
The disadvantages of an online survey:
-Some people have no internet access to respond to online surveys.
- Internet users today are constantly bombarded by messages and can easily delete or ignore links to the survey.
For my production production I had to do two surveys. The first survey I did was to find out about my target audience and a small bit bout their film preference. The second survey was to find out what my target audience enjoy in a thriller. For each of the surveys I did I had to get my results and evaluate them. Then I had to work out what to include in my production from the results in my target audience. I think that making a questionnaire was useful, this is because it let me know what my target audience like to watch and using the results means my production will be more enjoyable for my target audience.
The advantages of an online survey:
-Low cost
-Respondents input their own data, and it is automatically stored electronically. Analysis then is easier and available immediately.
-Less time taken up
-Conveinent for respondents, they can answer questions on their schedule, at their pace, and can even start a survey at one time, stop, and complete it later.
-No interviewer, respondents may be more willing to share personal information because they're not disclosing it directly to another person.
The disadvantages of an online survey:
-Some people have no internet access to respond to online surveys.
- Internet users today are constantly bombarded by messages and can easily delete or ignore links to the survey.
To get responses from my surveys I shared the link to my survey monkey questionnaires on Facebook and Twitter, posting the link on social networking sites means I was able to advertise my survey to my target audience. Posting the link to my survey on Facebook meant I hopefully got many responses from my target audience.
Target Audience Survey
The first survey I did was to look at the type of people who would be in my target audience. Asking questions about age and gender helped me to find out who my target audience is.
The first survey I did was to look at the type of people who would be in my target audience. Asking questions about age and gender helped me to find out who my target audience is.
How old are you?
This question was asked to work out the age of my target audience. The results showed that my target audience is aged between 15-19. My results where important to find out who my target audience is. And what age they are, so I can try to acomodate to the age range.
What is your gender?
By asking what my target audiences gender is it allowed me to get to know them more.
By asking what my target audiences gender is it allowed me to get to know them more.
How many films would you say you watch each month?
This question helped me to undersatnd how interested my target audience is in watching films and how often they watch them. I thought it was important to ask this question because it got a sense of how intereseted my target audience is in films, and what difficulties I will face.
This question helped me to undersatnd how interested my target audience is in watching films and how often they watch them. I thought it was important to ask this question because it got a sense of how intereseted my target audience is in films, and what difficulties I will face.
What film genre do you prefer?
By asking my target audience this I have found out the type of films my target market would
prefer to watch. Unfortunately for me the results of the question showed that the most preferd genre was not Thriller. The most popular genre is comedy, I will not be able to combine this into a genre hybrid. I hope to make my thriller enjoyable to a wide range of my target audience, to do this I will have to try and have small aspects of Action and Adventure, which is the second highest chosen preferd film genre, by have aspects of Action and Adventure it will make it entertaining for the target audience that enjoy Action and Adventure.
By asking my target audience this I have found out the type of films my target market would
prefer to watch. Unfortunately for me the results of the question showed that the most preferd genre was not Thriller. The most popular genre is comedy, I will not be able to combine this into a genre hybrid. I hope to make my thriller enjoyable to a wide range of my target audience, to do this I will have to try and have small aspects of Action and Adventure, which is the second highest chosen preferd film genre, by have aspects of Action and Adventure it will make it entertaining for the target audience that enjoy Action and Adventure.
What was the last film you watched that you really enjoyed?
Fortunutly for me most people answerd with a thriller or horro, which is what I am aiming to produce for my thriller opening. From my results I can see that quite a few people enjoy comedys, I will not be able to add any comercial asspects into my thriller opening.
Fortunutly for me most people answerd with a thriller or horro, which is what I am aiming to produce for my thriller opening. From my results I can see that quite a few people enjoy comedys, I will not be able to add any comercial asspects into my thriller opening.
Do you like watching thriller movies? Opinions on them?
I think this is the most important question in my questionaire. By asking the audience their opinions on the thriller genre it gives me theire exact opinion on thrillers. It tells me if they like or dislike thriller genres. With this information I can try to make my thriller follow my target audience's opinion on them, so they enjoy my final thriller opening.
I think this is the most important question in my questionaire. By asking the audience their opinions on the thriller genre it gives me theire exact opinion on thrillers. It tells me if they like or dislike thriller genres. With this information I can try to make my thriller follow my target audience's opinion on them, so they enjoy my final thriller opening.
Second Survey Results
Do you prefer a male or female as the main character?
63.64 percent of people asked said they preferd a male as the main character, but 36.36 percent preferd the main character to be female. With my survey resluts telling me that people
prefer a male protagonist I should use a male main character, however I have decided to have a female protagonist.
63.64 percent of people asked said they preferd a male as the main character, but 36.36 percent preferd the main character to be female. With my survey resluts telling me that people
prefer a male protagonist I should use a male main character, however I have decided to have a female protagonist.
What plot type do you prefer?
Our findings here are equal to each other. Using these results we know that we will be able to make our plot compliacted or easy to follow and it will still be interseting towards the target audience. Our thriller has an easy to follow story outline, but has deeper meanings when thought deeply about.
Our findings here are equal to each other. Using these results we know that we will be able to make our plot compliacted or easy to follow and it will still be interseting towards the target audience. Our thriller has an easy to follow story outline, but has deeper meanings when thought deeply about.
I think that this question was a really important one, this question tells us what our target market find scary in films. Faith and I are trying to creat a horror thriller, we want it to be scary. We know know from asking this question that our target audience find things that make people jump are most scary. We are glad we asked this question, in our story outline we were not sure if we were going to include a certain shot, but from collecting these resluts I know I will definatly include the jump moment.
What is your favourite thriller/horror movie?
By asking this I found out which thrillers or horrors my target audience's favourite. I found this information important because I could try and base my thriller opening on any of my target audiences favourite thriller films, making my finished thriller opening more appealing to them.
By asking this I found out which thrillers or horrors my target audience's favourite. I found this information important because I could try and base my thriller opening on any of my target audiences favourite thriller films, making my finished thriller opening more appealing to them.
I think that this question is another important one, this is beacuse I want to base my thriller opening on a mixture of The Shining and The Women In Black. I have decided to do this because I think an mixture, along with my own ideas will be interesting for my audience to watch. I think the fast cuts and shots in The Shining are good at creating tension and I would like to do so in my own thriller. I also like the horro story behind The Women In Black, and would like to so something slightly similar in my thriller.