Audience Feedback

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

The last task, is probably the most important feature when working within a film industry and this is the audience. The audience decide whether the film is a success or not. This is how film company's make a profit from an audience paying to watch the film in the cinema, buying the DVD/Blu-ray disk, or renting it online.

The audience feedback we received from the age range of 16-17 year old males and females was a preferred reading. The audience said that they found the plot overall very easy to convey and to understand, it wasn't hard to follow however, the beginning of the opening credits were too dark and on a smaller screen it wasn't hard to clearly see what was being shown on the screen:

The audience also said that they would prefer that the alarm sound of the mobile phone was a less abrupt and irritating sound. There was also comments about the slow process of him getting ready and that it wasn't very exciting, as it's was slightly a bit too slow.

Overall, I believe we received positive feedback, as the most important feature to a film is to know what it is about; the audience straight away understood the plot throughout.

Finished Opening Title Sequence

PRESENTING...

Our opening title sequence 'THE PATIENT'

Turn off the annotations for now and enjoy what we,

 'A CDE Productions'

have created!

Evaluation Task 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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

Evaluation Task 6: What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing your thriller?

What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing your thriller?

To answer this question we annotated over our video to show which elements we used for each specific part. So make sure our annotations are ON! 

Evaluation Task 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Our psychological thriller was aimed more to adults, around the age range of 30-50 year old males, due to the fact that we wanted our thriller to be complicated and hard to understand, younger children wouldn't understand it as much. I do not think this thriller would appeal to younger children as there is not going to be a lot of action, it is more focused on the mind and emotions, which can be quite disturbing. We also wanted to base our thriller around a detective, who is an alcoholic, and from our research we found that more adults appeal more to this kind of thriller.
 

Our opening title sequence, contains the use of the...

misuse of drug taking,








the detective shown to be an excessive alcoholic,

going to an asylum.

Quite a lot of adults can relate to the main protagonist in our thriller, whereas younger children will not be able to.

The majority of younger children will not be interested in this sort of mystery thriller, mainly because it doesn't appeal to them, I also think it would be quite boring for them to watch, as this is the sort of film you really have to concentrate in, when watching it. Younger children would appeal more, to action thrillers for example, The Hunger Games, Skyfall, Casino Royale etc, this is because of all of the excitement that goes on in these thrillers, including all the car chases, all the weapons used, and violence that goes on, but our thriller does not contain any violence. 

 

 

  Teenagers and adults such as myself (17 years old), would not be practically interested in a mystery thriller; they would rather watch a different genre thriller such as: paranormal or action, some examples such as The Paranormal Activities, The Purge etc.

Evaluation Task 4: Who would be the target audience for your media product?

Who would be the target audience for your media product?

Before going through with filming our thriller, our predictions for our targeted audience were it was more suited to males who are around the age range from 30-50 years old .

To work out the target audience for our thriller, we filmed interviews of different ages and genders of people asking the questions below...

1. How old are you?
2. What is your favourite genre of film
3. What do you expect to see in a thriller?
4. What do you like about thrillers?
5. Tell me your favourite thriller and why?
6. Would you go to watch... a psychological thriller based around a detective who is an alcoholic that is investigating a crime scene, that takes place at an asylum, it is a story of his tragic past.

Overall, after a lot of researching and surveying about our target audience, I have reached the conclusion of the male audience being our target, more specifically the older men. This was of course, our guess from the beginning as we followed the stereotype.

Evaluation Task 3: What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product and why?

What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product and why?

 

 

Our media product was made with no budget at all, so it is quite difficult to impress an audience who are watching, knowing that there is no money put into it whatsoever. The film is very basic at the moment, it does not include any big explosions or car scenes, which would cause the budget to increase. 

    
Our thriller was filmed in England, so it could start by being made into a British Television company such as BBC or ITV, as a British Detective series, and then progress from there. Luther is a 6 part British detective Drama series, produced by the BBC Drama Productions company. Inspector Morse is also a British Detective series made up out of 33 episodes. Our thriller could be made into a Detective series like the following, however knowing that Detective films aren't known to sell as well in Britain as they do in America, the thriller series could eventually turn out to be made into an American film such as Shutter Island.

   

Shutter Island is an American based thriller film based on a detective who is investigating a psychiatric facility on the titular island. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures, which is constantly ranked as one of the largest top grossing film studios, which distributed Titanic, Transformers, The Godfather, World War Z.  The budget for Shutter Island overall was $80million. The difference between our thriller and Shutter Island is the fact they were able to include action scenes with their high budget, they also had well known actors and actresses; Shutter Island had Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer and Mark Ruffalo, whereas we could not use famous names, we only had access to teachers within our school.

    I researched all the different genres of thrillers that would go with our Thriller...

• Horror Thriller e.g. Final Destination
• Psychological Thriller e.g. Seven
• Crime Thriller e.g. Silence of the Lamb
• Romantic Thriller e.g. Obsession
• Supernatural Thriller e.g. Exorcism
• Action Thriller e.g. Taken

 We want our film to be more of a psychological thriller, rather than a romantic thriller or an action thriller.

 

 

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount) is a film and television production/distribution studio, consistently ranked as one of the largest (top-grossing) film studios.

It has distributed various commercially successful film series, such as Shrek, Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Star Trek, Jackass, The Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, Crocodile Dundee, Paranormal Activity, and G.I. Joe. I think that Paramount Pictures would be one film company that would most certainly take on our thriller due to the fact that Paramount distribute very different genres of films but mainly thriller/action films. Also due to the genre and themes of our thriller it could not fit into a British Independent Film company as they target films that contain realism and naturalism rather than action as they don't have the money to achieve this.