Target Audience Research

This is the questionairre we handed out before we started creating our main exercise

Sharrison Productions are beginning to plan their new movie and are hoping to gain some guidance from you, the audience. From the following questions we hope to gain a good idea of what you like to watch and what you want us to produce.

1.     How old are you?

0-15                o                   16-24             o          24+          o 

2.     What genre of film do you prefer to watch?

Drama                       o        Comedy        o          Horror         o 

Thriller                       o        Rom Com      o          Sci-Fi           o 

3.     What are your main interests?

Sport                          o        Music             o          Fashion    o 

Computers               o       Cars                o          Films             o 

4.     What is your favourite film?

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5.     What is your favourite TV show?

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Question One

This showed that we asked mainly 16-24 year olds, and this was the target audience we were aiming for with the production.

Question Two

After asking all of our respondents we knew that drama was the genre we were going to use. This allowed us to create and imagine ideas around drama. We could, from this, analyse other drama films, as well as looking through the code and conventions of other drama films. 

Question Three

These results showed that the target audience are mainly interested in music. After discovering this, we decided we would try collaborating music within our film. We wanted to try use music as the main feature in the film, rather than just using non-diagetic music over the top of something else.

Question Four

The results from this question, showed that most of the respondents enjoyed teen drama films with a large majority British based; 16/50 respondents said that their favourite film was adulthood.

After reading through all the responses we were able to narrow down our ideas of what the film could be to suit the audience best.

Question Five

Most respondents said that they mainly enjoyed British drama; Misfits, Skins and Shameless were the main results throughout the questionnaire.

After this we knew that some aspects of the film may contain the lives of teenagers, and include the social aspect of teenagers.

Juno - Opening (Remake)

After completing this task, I believe me and the others in the group have increased our knowledge of shooting and the editing process to help produce a well prepared and a good quality final piece.

Sound

Diegetic sound 

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Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: 

• voices of characters 
• sounds made by objects in the story 
• music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music)

Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world 

Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. 

Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound  

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Non-diegetic sound 

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Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: 

• narrator's commentary
• sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
• mood music

Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from a source outside story space. 

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The distinction between diegetic or non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and listening.  We know of that certain sounds are represented as coming from the story world, while others are represented as coming from outside the space of the story events.  A play with diegetic and non-diegetic conventions can be used to create ambiguity (horror), or to surprise the audience (comedy). 

Another term for non-diegetic sound is commentary sound.