Target Audience Survey Using Survey Monkey:
This is a survey I made to help with my movie opening for my target audience section. This has given me an idea of what people in the age category that I am aiming my movie at enjoy in crime thriller films.
Target Audience Profile:
This is Matthew Jones he is 25 years old and is currently living in Jersey.
Matthew likes watching thriller, horror and crime films in his spare time and going out to the cinema with his friends. I have aimed my film at around Matthew's age, so I have asked him a few questions in order to see what my target audience would want to see in a thriller/crime film like mine.
1. What is your favourite thriller crime film and why?
My favourite thriller crime film has got to be Se7en, as I love the high suspense throughout the movie. In addition I like how they have taken the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins and given it a new twist. I also like how the titles grab your attention to watch the film with the opening credits being done over broken, blurred images of John Doe removing the skin from his fingertips and sewing it into his journals, adding a creepy feel to the movie.
Narrative:
An auntie and child walking along the beach and the child picks up an abandoned shoe and asks what it is, the auntie then goes over to put it back and discovers a dead body. We are then shown the crime scene with policeman and forensic scientists around the body. The forensic scientist tells the policeman that there is no evidence of what happened to the girl. We then see flashing newspaper articles of girls being mysteriously murdered.
Yeah, it sounds like my kind of film as it has a bit of a twist with the dead girl being mysteriously murdered and with some good effects this could be a really exiting movie to watch.
I think you should shoot it at a very isolated area of the beach to create the feeling that the body has been abandoned and to create an eerie feeling of the death to the audience.
You should use slow shots that pan across the dead body not he beach to build up suspense for the audience. You should also do lots of angles of the crime scene and body to give the audience the feeling that nothing is being hidden from them and this really is a mysterious death.
Target Audience Interview:
In order to get a few different opinions from a range of ages to help with my opening sequence I have decided to interview a younger girl around 18 years old, in contrast with the 25 year old man from the profile above.
Here is the interview:
