Audience analysis

The questionnaire results
Below are the results to the questionnaire.

 These are the results of the first two questions asked. In terms of Gender is shows us that we asked 3 more females than males but i don't think this makes it too biased. Age in my opinion is the most important part of these two and it shows us that are target audience are in fact teenagers. Of the 17 we asked 10 were aged between 10-19, and so we now know who to target.

The results to find out what people best like about crime films were interesting. They show us that people tend to like the action and tension side best. These two are closely linked though because with action you get tension. The idea of what we are thinking of doing doesn't involve any action but it does involve tension, and so we are going to listen to what the audience want. The next question also showed us some useful information. The one which people showed to be the most important was the location. 76.5% said it to be very important when filming and the rest ticked the 'important box'. We now know that we have to choose the right location in order to keep are audience happy and maybe to help them understand the plot of the story. Costume was also ticked at very important or just 'important' highly as well, and again this tells us that we have to be wearing the right costumes in order to make it realistic. The only thing that was marked as not needed was music. This shows us that people care more about the viewing side rather than the listening side, but because only one person said this i don't think we should take it into account to much, as we want to use tension and music can help us with that.

I wanted to get people's ideas on what they thought would be a good location and what sort of location they represent with crime. And with the results it is clear that a majority of people thought a building would be a good place to shoot. This could be like an apartment or a house of some sort. However the reason why i chose these locations was because i liked them all, and with the idea i have got in my head i think it would be good to try and use most of these locations. The next question shows us what people expect the opening scene of the crime film to be about. Action, and showing who the character is were the most popular answers. What i want to do is to kind of show who the character is and what he does so i am going to take into account the answers. I asked how i can do this as well and the answers were black and white, murder, no talking and text to explain. All of these were good and i liked the idea of having no talking to build tension.

If we need to use props in are opening sequence then i want to use the correct ones, and so wanted to know what sort of things are represented with crime. The options i put down seem to be accurate as they all have very high marks, so if props need to be used i know that these are acceptable. Other answers were drugs, alcohol, cars, anything linked to gangsters in some way. Music is very important and if we are to use any even if it is very faint then i needed to know what. And from the results i know that tense music is what people want, and quite fast. So when looking for music i know what to look for and i do think i am going to use one of the two.

I wanted to know what films they watched last just to get an idea of what sort of films they consider to be crime. This isn't to important in the outcome of our opening film but it was nice to know. Some of the answers were bad boys, James Bond, pulp fiction, and Batman. The next question was important because once you have made the film you want it to be watched by as many people as possible so i needed to know who i would send it to in order for people to watch. The popular answers were DVD, TV, Cinema, and online (Netflix). I would send the film to all of these if i could because they are obviously the methods in which people watch films, and so that is where i would send my movie.

So overall this has helped me a lot decide what i need to add or do in my opening sequence to please y audience. I have not got ideas which i can use and put on a story board, and then decide which one to use.