Tuesday 5 February 2013

Audience Research Questions : Soban Tufail

I will be doing a Vox Pop the first part of my audience research.

Below is the list of the questions i have chosen for my audience research, i have also included why i have chosen these questions.

1. Do you enjoy watching movies which are under the genre 'Thriller'?
The reason i have chosen this question is because it establishes if people enjoy watching movies under this genre or not.

2. What 'Thriller' sub-genres appeal to you the most?
Using this i can understand what people like to watch combined with a thriller. This way i can get a good overview in what sub-genres i could include in my final production.

3. Which of the following would you associate with 'Thriller' films?
From this question i can establish what types of things people would reckon to expect from the thriller movie and this also helps me outline which one's i could actually use.

4. What particular features of this genre would you expect to see in the opening sequence?
This is a very useful question and it helps to tell me what people would like and expect to see in the opening sequence. This way i could use some ideas and collage them together and use it in my final production.

5. What uses of sound are you likely to come across in the opening sequence?
The reason why i have chosen this question is because it helps me to understand of what sounds relate to thriller opening sequences. It helps me to establish if the audience want loud revealing thrilling sounds or slow and silent sounds.

6. What would you expect from the title sequence?
This question is really important for me to understand what colours, fonts, background can be used for my title sequence, I can also establish how to present the titles, if either i should have it coming down or presented one by one around the opening sequence going along with the clip.

7. Watching a 'Thriller' opening sequence, how much of the plot would you expect to be exposed?
From this question i can make a understanding of how much i of the plot we have to expose in our opening sequence. We need to make sure it is not to long and to exposing, this means that we to establish something very engaging for the audience to keep viewing.

Group Post - Treatment

Treatment Writing - Elimination 

A young man just finishing college after having a successful year has his mind corrupted by a  priest from a secret society. The priest has promised him fame and fortune if he completes his dirty work. Standing in his way is a group of students who have discovered the secrets of this society. They have now established that the secret society is the illuminati. This group of students threaten to expose their secrets on live TV. In response, the illuminati decide to get rid of them permanently. They will do anything to keep this secrecy intact but things take an unexpected turn when the young man discovers that one of the students that he has to eliminate is his younger sister!