questionnaire

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We began our task by creating a questionnaire to help us make our choices. The questionnaire will be handed out to people of all the age groups we have on the questionnaire (question 2) and also be given to both male and females to help us work out who our target audience will be. The results from the questionnaire will be collected by a tally table so that we are able to see what options for each question is more for the target age so that it can appeal to them well and make it a good film to get the target audience eger to watch as it will be based in the majority of chosen options.

Target audience

To choose who we would have as our target audience we began to research the target audiences of the four thrillers we based our research and work choices on. This make us see that the research depended on the amount of horror and action elements that are included within the film. Eg. the Butterfly Effect and Gone were both a 15 and a psychological thrillers, these films contain very little violence and a lot of scenes that draw the views in psychologically due to being a psychological thriller. The other two films Panic Button and Taken include a larger amount of violence compared to the other two films which fits the genre of a thriller, this is why these two films are of the higher rating of 18.

When it came down to thinking of the ages for our film we choose to use the 15 rating for our film, this is because we are planning to base our film on the psychological thrillers ideas we have gotten from the films we have researched into. This was our final choice because the small amount of violence which was used wasn't as visible or graphic in the trailers of the psychological thriller than it was in the trailer for Taken or Panic Button. Ours will be based on them as we plan to use either little or no violence in our trailer.

Genre

Within the past few lessons of Media, my partner and I have researched about the different ranges of genre which we could do. After researching, we found several different kinds of genres that we could choose from. We began the research by making a list of the genres we know, afterwards we narrowed it down by explaining and discussing what genres wouldn't work as we have a limited time to film, limited lighting, unpredictable weather etc. which helped us well because we was also considering a variety of places which our coursework could take place. We was finally left with 3 genres to pick from. We was unable to decide this, so we done more research to what the typical events are that occur in each genre. This helped as we also have an idea of the type of film we could make it which allows us to set out the planning in an organised way. The final genre we picked was Thriller due to the range of routes we could take in the film because thrillers can be done in different ways such as psychological etc. we then picked 4 films to watch trailers about, these four films were; Butterfly Effect, Panic Button, Gone and Taken. These were choosen as they are films which have different effects on people and different storylines to them which attracts the veiwers and make them want to know what happens and draw them in as it would make the film better as theres no idea as to what happens between the parts that are not shown and the ending is always left in a mysterious mannor as some have quick ahots of the end whereas some just show the way the character acts and who they are without giving away the ending or the storyline causing the target audience to want to see the film more eagerly.