After looking at our first draft of our film opening we were unsure about whether the genre of our film aligned with what was in our film opening, we thought that it actually better matched the comedy genre. So we decided to ask our target audience by creating a 'survey monkey' to see what they thought we should do to address what they would like to see in our film opening. These were the results:
The results are mainly mixed and show a range of ages in our target audience, ranging from ages 14 - 18 which gives a wide perspective reflected in our results. Fortunately almost all of the respondents enjoyed the film opening, with no negative responses, only constructive. Many of the results stated that they believed the genre of the film was actually comedy not thriller as we originally intended, just as we thought. Most of our audience suggested that it was the credits that made our opening not comply with the thriller genre, just as the comedy of using the toilet roll. This gave us an option to just re shoot all of the credits to be less comedic and therefore fit with the thriller genre, however the credits are a key part of our opening and are some of the most successful uses of camera work in our film so it may actually be a mistake to reshoot them all. Therefore we decided that the best thing for our piece was to make our piece fully comply with the genre that our target audience already believed it was, comedy. We decided to keep it as it is with the credits staying to add hints of comedy thought and then subvert the audiences expectations right at the end with a big twist so that by the end of the opening the genre is no longer ambiguous and is more certain whilst still having kept them interested with the atmosphere of suspense.
The results are mainly mixed and show a range of ages in our target audience, ranging from ages 14 - 18 which gives a wide perspective reflected in our results. Fortunately almost all of the respondents enjoyed the film opening, with no negative responses, only constructive. Many of the results stated that they believed the genre of the film was actually comedy not thriller as we originally intended, just as we thought. Most of our audience suggested that it was the credits that made our opening not comply with the thriller genre, just as the comedy of using the toilet roll. This gave us an option to just re shoot all of the credits to be less comedic and therefore fit with the thriller genre, however the credits are a key part of our opening and are some of the most successful uses of camera work in our film so it may actually be a mistake to reshoot them all. Therefore we decided that the best thing for our piece was to make our piece fully comply with the genre that our target audience already believed it was, comedy. We decided to keep it as it is with the credits staying to add hints of comedy thought and then subvert the audiences expectations right at the end with a big twist so that by the end of the opening the genre is no longer ambiguous and is more certain whilst still having kept them interested with the atmosphere of suspense.
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