Audience research

Primary and Secondary Audience Survey from jaimiesian

From the survey that we conducted on Survey Monkey, we found out what type of film people of our age group would like to watch in order to see what type of film we might want to make an opening sequence for, the survey took a wide range of people and asked them specific questions to get answers from them that would help us make our opening sequence.

From this in-depth research of opening sequences to coming of age films, we managed to find a wide range of techniques and tricks to make our film opening more exciting and make it more suitable to the coming of age film theme. There is also small bits of background information  on each of the films which helped us to think of important details that our film must have, for example an age rating for our audience.

In this video we got a teenage girl who doesn't do any sort of media study to describe what she likes about these film opening sequences, this was to get an unbiased view of what the film openings are like to people who don't necessarily know all of the techniques that are being shown, she also describes things that catch her attention which is good because these are all things that we could use in our coming of age opening sequence to make it more interesting to the audience.

Credit to Lucy Crow, Leanne Pratt and Jaimie Hampton for helping create the Prezi, Survey and Slide Share.



In this video you can hear the focus groups that we did with other people to find out what our target audience likes in films and how we could improve our films to suit the coming of age genre. They also answer questions about what films they like and the reasons why they like them.

Learning Comment

From doing these tasks I have learnt about different techniques that I could use to keep an audience engaged in tan opening sequence as well as learning about what types of films people find interesting and what previous coming of age films have done to make themselves stand out from the rest and to keep audience members interested in the opening of the film.