Audience Feedback

Once we completed editing the thriller, we decided to show it to some people in order to gain some audience feedback. Initially we decided to gain feedback from members of our primary target audience, between the ages of 16-20.

The feedback from this age group was largely positive, with many commenting on the interesting storyline and the cliff-hanger at the end of the opening. The audience felt that the music was very effective in helping to build to a climax and also helped create tension. The feedback included positive remarks on the wide use of shots, as well as the setting and location, which they felt created a tense and eerie atmosphere.

We also decided to gain feedback from an older audience, and showed our thrillers to three teachers. Again the feedback was positive, with praise again coming in for the use of varied shots and the creation of tension and suspense with the choice of music. We showed the thriller to an English teacher who was impressed with the entertaining and interesting storyline throughout.

Based on the feedback received from the audience, we were very pleased with the music and shots that we showed in our thriller. We felt however, that the location and setting could have been better but were pleased with our emergency location that we had to use. At closer inspection, we also felt we could improve on the continuity in our thriller.

Laurence Ruthven

Final Thriller Opening - Desolo

Evaluation - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from preliminary to full product?

For our preliminary task, we had to show that we could demonstrate the 180 degree rule, a match on action shot, shot/reverse shot and be able to edit the footage together to create the final preliminary task. The object of this task was so that we could understand how the camera and editing studio works, as well as gaining more of an understanding of what shots we could include in our final thriller.


From our knowledge of using the cameras for the preliminary, we decided that wherever possible we would use the tripod to help create steadier and smoother pans and tilts. After we had discussed what storyline we would have for our opening, we decided to include some varied shots in order to keep the camera movements interesting for the audience. We decided that we would include high and low angle shot to help establish power in certain characters and to add to the variety of shots in our opening.



Due to our location we found it difficult to achieve the high and low angle shots without using the tripod, but felt that the shots were successful in what we wanted them to achieve. We also didn’t use the tripod on the point of view shot, another shot that we wanted to included adding suspense to our thriller as well as a variety of angles and shots.



Laurence Ruthven

Evaluation-Describing our main demographic

After deciding to rate our film '15' we then realised the main demographic would be men aged 15-22. These would fit In the Emulator group when based on their VALS. We would be looking to appeal to a slightly different type of person outside the mainstream and popular culture as our film would contain the sort of theme that may not be overly enjoyed or acceptable for the majority of the public.

Other Films: The films that our demographic would watch would be other psychological thrillers such as Cape Fear, American Psycho and Se7en. The likelyhood is that they would enjoy other genres due to their age. The main one of which could well be the new influx of cult American comedy films such as Anchorman, Tropic Thunder and the Clerks films

Television preferences: The TV they would watch would again i believe involve American comedy shows such as Scrubs and Two & a half men. These are sitcoms that are widely accepted as very funny by this age band. They would also enjoy American cult cartoons such as South Park and Family Guy. This generation enjoys outspoken and controversial programmes and would therefore watch these two shows. The 15-22's have also been known to enjoy more mature drama based shows such as House and Skins. House is enjoyed due to the psychology involved and the intellegence and charisma of Dr House where as skins is another programmed aimed at this particular demographic as it tries to show a realistic yet entertaining portayal of this group.

Musical preferences: In general the group that are likely to be attracted to our thriller would like more guitar driven rock music as appose to popular chart music. Our average fan would ideally enjoy anything from classic rock to heavy metal aswell as any alternative genres in between. These are generally the sort of music listened to by young people who also enjoy thriller films. This music often contains darker and deeper themes which are not disimilar to the ones portrayed in our thriller.

Note. These people generally enjoy their role outside of the norm so an ammount of pride and passion is placed into their values and opinions which makes the thriller genre a favourite. As thrillers contain themes that are often disturbing and ones that would not be acceptable outside the thriller film enviroment.

Evaluation - How does your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

Jade Smith

Evaluation - What kind of media insituiton might distribute your media product and why?

A production company produces film and is responsible for the development and physical production. In earlier research we looked at various film institutions that could produce our film. We decided after our initial research that we would choose Universal pictures. Universal has produced many thriller films over the years including Jaws, Psycho, Cape Fear and Hannibal.
In our title sequence we showcased the actor’s names in order of the way they appear on screen. We also included the director’s name before the cliff-hanger at the end, allowing the full production credits to roll in the main title sequence that would follow the cliff-hanger.
Universal has shown a tendency in the past to release new stand alone films such as Cape Fear and Psycho. It is because of this that we chose Universal to produce and release our film as they have experience in dealing with stand alone films, with the potential for sequels based on the success of the film.

Laurence Ruthven

Evaluation - How did we Attract/ Address our Audience

Elliott Joyner