Monday, 16 November 2009

Thriller film audience research

What I want to find out:

1. The audience's expectations of how entertaining an independent/mainstream film will be.
2. Whether the audience prefer psychological thrillers.
3. Whether the audience prefer glamorous or dull settings.
4. What kind of femme fatale the audience likes.


How I am going to find out:

1. Questionnaires.
2. Surveys.
3. Interviews.
4. Analysis of films.

What I expect to find out:

1. That audiences expect the film to not be as entertaining as a Hollywood film.
2. The audiences will expect it to be produced in a very cheap way.
3. The audience will expect the locations/settings to be dull and unglamorous.

Over a weekend how many seperate screenings are there in cinemas?
89

How many films in total are being exhibited?
12

How many films are being screened several times at the same cinema?
12. However, the films that have most recently been released have more showing than those that have been showing for a while.

Of these, how many are being screened at different cinemas at the same time?
9.

What conclusions can you draw about film distribution in the UK?
Blockbuster, big, films are screened for longer and more frequently. Whereas, small budget films aren't shown very often, if atall.

1 comment:

  1. Good - some of your questions gave you interesting answers which you can use to inform your own production. You needed to ask more focussed questions to find out about the audiences expectations of mainstream/independent. You need to do some more research into this so that you understand what the audiences expectations of your own film will be.

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