Alice Ward | Audience Research: Questionnaire Evaluation

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3. Would you associate action films to crime films and how?

First starting off by a different closed question, this is a simple reassurance that we are making the right links within our planning of ThreeSeven. And therefore we can look more into action as a genre to apply to our personal preferences. We then elaborated our question by asking how, by asking how we’d expect to read a response of linking we could uptake from our audience. By using links they make we could put through them within our two minutes to appeal to what our audience think; to satisfy them. For example, one response was “Sort of they’re both quick, snappy with guns and goodies and baddies.” Thus by reading this we discussed to include weaponry in our short two minutes to create an atmosphere of fear throughout our shots and hopefully have an effect on our audience. In some aspects you have to stick to action stereotypes, and consider the traditional conventions. We had to consider the snappy and quick shots that should take place during shooting, and this then having a knock on effect on production. Quick shots that transition in a speedy form help build a chaotic feeling; a feeling of a lot going on in the plot so that our audience doesn’t get bred (which was also mentioned in Questionnaire responses). Another response replied, “Yes, as fighting crime is quick etc.” Which also aided PAJ Productions in the certainty of fast shot switching and, within editing, how short we’d have to cut the camera shots.

4. What do you think of the younger generation in the UK?

We only chose to ask about the younger generation in the UK due to our film being planned to be set in the UK, and sticking to the stereotypes of the UK setting. This is so we can speak to and appeal to our audience in a better more personal way, to get more of a sympathetic or relative response. In addition to this, certain responses we got were like “All mischievous and can be ignorant at time.” Which is a clear misunderstanding (in our opinion) which is why we chose to provoke this response in or film and show a victim to gun crime and how teenagers or youngsters can get stuck in such crime and troublesome scenes. Yet we still kept the response and considered the stereotype, including youngsters with the unpredictable gun crime that anyone can get hurt! One shot may link to technology of today when teens are always on their phones: one character could always be on their phone or the use of the phone prop would need to be included. Showing the trend following; to add to understanding and relevance.

5. How many action films do you watch per month?

With majority of responses answers 3-4 we had to make sure if actin was a right road to take. Maybe people are losing interest in action films and may not appeal to our film as much as we expected. And this is why we asked this question. ¾ action films a month we thought was relatively okay for the average person. Some were more, some were less. This questions was a quick fire, check-up question to make sure us as a group are going in the right direction of choices in genre.

The following questions are more productive in what our audience would like to see, to get a wider variety of what they think in their own imagination and minds…!