Audience feedback

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1) Gender: male female

2) Age: 13-16 17-21 21-25 26-30 30+

3) Favourite genre: Comedies Horrors Action Romantic Comedies
Thrillers Sci-fi Adventure Drama Musicals Historical

4) Who do you usually go to the cinema with? Friends Family Family and Friends by yourself

5) How often do you go to the cinema? Once a week twice a week
Three times a week once a month occasionally never don’t know

6) What’s your favourite film, and what do you remember most about it?
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7) What do you expect to see in an opening sequence to a Romantic Comedy?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8) What type of comedy do you prefer? Slapstick comedy spoofs
ironic comedy parodies teen comedies ‘dumb’ comedies British humour classic comedy horror comedy ‘mock-umentaries’
screwball comedy

9) Have you ever seen a film with either homosexuality, homosexual connotations and with homophobics? Yes no

10) Would this type of film interest you? Yes no

11) The basic plot of our film is based around the main character Arthur, who is confused about his sexuality. This comes in between him and best friend Lily, who secretly has a crush on him. Rumours and stories start going around school, ending up with Arthur getting emotionally and physically hurt. Would you want to go and see this film?
Yes No

Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From out Preliminary task, this project has been much more stressful and time consuming. For example, there was far more complications than the last project, and was far more difficult using other students who weren't in our media group. This was because we had limited time to complete the filming, and the extras also didnt have as much time as us. As well as complications while filming, like messing up the script and forgetting to say the right thing. Also, we came across many times that other groups wanted to take out the cameras the same time as our group, so this was an issue at times. We also had some organisation problems, as none of our group were that well at organising.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From this production, I have learned many lessons about the equipment, organisation and skills. While creating our film, we came across numerous problems about the equipment, for example, there were many times when our group wanted to book the camera out, or use the edit

suite, but another group had booked it out before hand. As a group, we therefore became limited to the times we could film or edit, and this was also very time consuming, as there was many shot to log and as we re-filmed some scenes and shots. Also, I found that we had to get a lot of help from a teacher with the editing suite, as we found all the processes confusing and we counldnt remembre some of the ways to do different processes. This was mainly because we only had an hour or two slot twice a week or so, and was difficult to remember.

I found also that there was many documents that we had forgotten how to lay out, such as the treatment and the shot list, but we found our preliminary task sheets and worked out how to set them out.

Another piece of equipment that not only I, but most of my group, found difficult to use was the blogger. As this was a new website, I was unfamiliar with it at first, but over time, I got used to it and knew my way around.

How did you attract your audience?

As our product is set in a school, this immediately brings in the audience in the range on 12-18, as they themselves are at school, so they are familiar with the setting and can relate to the environment. They can relate to the fallings out through friendships, however there is also a niche audience, through homosexuality. We have used a homosexual antagonist. as this will bring in a niche audience, and is also conversive, as thi is rarely done in films. Curiosity too will bring in another audience. As we used both male and female characters, this brings in both of these audiences in, and this is therefore not biased. Age is another factor, that brings in audiences, ad

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our main target audience would be teens and adults, as this is based around teens, but looks at more deeper situations that adults would want to watch. We can get female audiences by the delicate plot of our film, and the main characters, as they can relate to the female character and can relate to the friendships within the film. We can grab the male audience of the film from also the plot of the film, and the comical side of it too. The adult audience can relate to times when they were at school, and maybe can get lost in the character and environment of the film, as they can relate to times they were at school. Also our film covers a delicate and not very widely used, and this can attract audiences, as this is rarely seen in films.

Also, the genre of our film, romantic comedy, will attract audiences that enjoy this type of film too.

How does your media product present particular social groups?

As our film was based around school, and there is a clear distinction between the 6th formers and the lower years, by their dress code. The 6th formers were wearing smartly dressed, and differed from gender and the day.

We have make sure that we have had a range of different stereotypical characters in our product, such as the 'bad boy' image of the character Alfie, for example by texting in class. We also have a caring, happy but emotional character, and this is Emily. She walks off when Arthur is ignoring her.

There is also a clue as to the social group in the music, as this is stereotypically seen as teens as this is rocky, upbeat and happy.