Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation 5- How did you attract/address your audience?

In order to attract our target audience we interviewed several members of from our target audiences and interviewed each one of them to get an insight into how they want a new film from that genre to be like and include.

 

 

 

 

The first person we interviewed was Chris Higgins as he was part of our secondary target audience demographic of males under the age of 35, and he is a fan of the action genre so he had some interesting ideas and answers to our questions. The questions we asked him were

‘Why does he like action films?’ Next we asked What was his favourite action film was, he told us that he particularly enjoyed action films like The Bourne Identity because of the 'interesting story line about the goings on secretly within the government', as well as the acting by the lead character 'Matt Damon'.

‘What aspects of action films entice you to watch them?’ he responded with that he enjoys long action packed car chases, gunshots and overall the good guys overcome the bad guys in the end.

‘Do you find the stereotypical role of women in action films e.g. damsel in distress a bad thing’ he feels that having this in a film kind of detracts from the overall feel of the film as a whole but he does like that it adds an extra dynamic of a love interest for the hero to pursue

‘What would you like to see in action films that you haven’t seen before?’ He went on to say he would like to see a ‘mash up’ of two action franchises for example James bond and Jason borne because he feel people would want and it would be a nice combination and how the film would go about presenting the story

We spoke to Paul Cutts as he was part of our primary target audience demographic of males above the age of 35, He was a good choice to interview as is a fan of some of the older, classic actions films

 

 

‘What was your favourite film and why’  ‘Speed’ he responded, he liked how the plot was thick and 'they got a lot out of the concept' he said he enjoys the 'explosions and adrenaline pumping car chases'.

‘Do you find the stereotypical role of women in action films e.g. damsel in distress a bad thing’ he said he didn’t like the use of dominant male characters and saving a 'damsel in distress' character can detract from the film as it’s a very traditional story feature, and he likes 'Speed' as it challenges this by the female character doing the hard job.

‘What would you like to see in an action film you have not seen before?’ He responded that he would like to see an action film that was set ferther in the past but with a female actress taking the lead role