Constructing an Audience
An audience views is split into two parts Demographics and Psychographics
Demographics
For the Demographics of our Audience I will look at their Age, Gender, Class, Race and Geographical Location. For each one I will say the audience fits our film.
The Age of our audience will be 18-24 year olds mainly but people older than that may like our movie as well. We are aiming it at Teenagers mainly as these are the people who are most likely to watch our films. The Gender of our audience is Males and Females but it is mainly aimed at Males as they will like our film because of the idea of people being tortured and abducted in film is more aimed at Males rather than Females. The Class of our audience is working/ middle Class families that have teenagers in their families as these are the people who will watch our film. The Race of our Audience is all Races as our film shouldn't offend anyone what ever skin colour they are. The Geographical Location of our audience is people in and around Cambridgeshire.
The Age of our audience will be 18-24 year olds mainly but people older than that may like our movie as well. We are aiming it at Teenagers mainly as these are the people who are most likely to watch our films. The Gender of our audience is Males and Females but it is mainly aimed at Males as they will like our film because of the idea of people being tortured and abducted in film is more aimed at Males rather than Females. The Class of our audience is working/ middle Class families that have teenagers in their families as these are the people who will watch our film. The Race of our Audience is all Races as our film shouldn't offend anyone what ever skin colour they are. The Geographical Location of our audience is people in and around Cambridgeshire.
Psychographics
For the Psychographics of our Audience I will look at Interests, Music, Beliefs and Values. For each one I will go through what they are for teenagers as this is what audience will watch our film.
The Interests of our audience will be going out and socialising with their friends to the cinema to watch films like ours. Teenagers will like our film as there is Teenagers in it and Teenagers like watch films about things that other teenagers have done. The Background music in our film creates tension by building up to the Evil doctor scene where he is torturing a victim. The beliefs of our audience will be that films can be true as well as made up. So therefore our film is a True story we have done it like that as this interests teenagers to watch it. The values of our audience is that they will watch films that have in camera angles positioning as well as engaging background music. Teenagers will also want our film to create suspense and tension to the audience.
Questionnaire and results for Evaluation Activity 4
Questionnaire
1. Does it relate to a horror film?
2. Is there enough characters?
3. Is the music suitable for the opening?
4. Would you continue to watch this film?
5. Does the editing work? (effects)
6. How would you end the opening sequence?
7. How would you improve it?
8. What works well?
Results summary
1. Does it relate to a horror film?
The answers say that the beginning doesn’t work as a horror film but combined with the rest of the opening sequence it does work as a horror film.
2. Is there enough characters?
The answers say Yes as it gives it a tense atmosphere with mainly Dalian and Philip- No one to help him.
The answers say Yes as they said that they liked the opening music as the happy music contrasts with the horror that comes next.
4. Would you continue to watch this film?
The answers say Yes to watching rest of the film.
The answers say Yes as they said that Philip’s Scene and the blurry vision as well as the surgical equipment.
The answers say Yes as they said that it should with end something sudden like Dalian screaming.
The answers say that it needs re filming in parts especially the baseball bat scene.
The answers say Yes as they said that the drinking scene at the beginning was effective and when Dalian wakes up.
The improvements we made after the feedback we recived from the questionaire included moving the title from the beginning of the film to the end of the film as this was suggested by the people who filled in our survey. The other improvements we made included editing the film so it was all in black and white. We also took out one of our actors laughs as it didn't fit the film and istead added in the victim scremmiong to end our film. We also changed the music at the beginning so it fitted in with what was happening in the film at the time. We also added in our production logo to the beginning of our film. We also shortened the time it took for Dalian to walk up the alley.
Good awareness of intended target audience shown here Philip. You just need to add what changes/imoprovements you made to your film as a result of the target audience watching your draft film.
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