For this
task, I am going to do my own independent research on genre and audience to get
some primary information. I have decided to do a questionnaire about what
genres people like, and what they expect to see in a film of that genre. I am
hoping this will help give me an idea of what genre to choose as I will see
what people like about them and therefore I will see what I could possibly
include in my film opening.
Questionnaire
I created
the questionnaire online using survey monkey. I wanted to find out what
sort of content people would like to see from a thriller movie. For
this question, the option for 'tension' was by far the highest answer as
everyone but three people chose this. I expected this because thriller is all
about thrilling the audience causing a reaction to what they are watching by
surprising them, causing emotion, or scaring them. To jump scare an audience,
the best way to do this is to build up tension which every thriller film that I
know of does. If I were to do this genre I will definitely involve tension
in some way as I think this is a good way to draw in an audience and this is
what most people would expect to see in a thriller.
Everyone
chose each of the options and there are quite a few that have only one choice
which was 'investigations', 'a natural disaster', a hero or villain, and 'view
the story from a characters perspective'. This has helped me for my research as
I now know that these are not so relevant to include in my film opening so
it isn't important to include them. I also now know that I must definitely
include tension if I go along with this genre.
By doing this questionnaire, I have found out
so much of what ideas and what aspects people prefer so I know what people
expect to see from my film opening and what people want to see. Also these are
reliable results as they come from a primary source. This has helped me a lot
with nailing down what ideas are best and have also helped me to
analyse each genre and to decide what genre to choose. Also this has
helped me find out about what sort of audiences like my ideas so I know what
route to go down depending on who I am targeting my film at.
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