Audience feedback

                                    
How we set up our audience feedback
To ask what the audience think of our ideas, I set up a chat on whats app this way I can keep everyone's opinions and answer to our questions all in one place. I can also ask some more questions in response to what they are saying.



 key ideas/points

• Main male character is unhappy/unstable/depressed.
• Family come over, daughter and boyfriend and brothers.
• Father doesn't know that the daughter is going to tell them some happy news
• Takes pills in the bathroom.
• Leaves the house and goes to somewhere that the family used to go to (beachy head) to commit suicide.
• Daughter finds the dad on the cliff and shouts the news.   

Questions we asked

• Would you be interested in this genre (drama) and why?
• Do you like films that have a cliff hanger or not and why?
• Do you think the idea is good? is there any improvements we could make to appeal more to your age group.

What the audience said


Caitlin (23)
I asked a couple people within our target audience firstly my sister came back to us and said that she would be interested in a drama genre because suspense makes it interesting and keeps your attention. we asked if she likes the idea of cliff  hanger; she said yes but not if they're to obvious as to what is going to happen. finally we asked for any improvements on the idea we could make and she said there should be more info given on the dads background and why he ended up depressed as this will make the characters more relatable to the audience.




Connor (17)
Secondly Connor said he would be interested in a drama genre because it sounds very gripping and a well thought out story. He told us that he thinks a cliff hanger in a film is good because it makes you think what happened after and keeps you thinking. and finally for improvements he said  its a good idea, but it could be made clearer on why he is depressed and why he is so desperate to commit suicide.




Tara (17)
Thirdly  Tara said 'it seems like an interesting short film and something I think along with other teenagers would be intrigued by mostly due to the fact that the drugs involved could perhaps be relatable in some cases however personally I think what would be most intriguing to me is the dramatic plot. in response to do you like cliff hangers 'honestly no I would only probably like a movie with a cliff hanger if I knew there could be a second film to find out all the information. and lastly for improvements; 'improvements for the film, I think that adding more information on all the characters would be good (so your audience connects with each character more). I would also suggest focusing on the dad a lot. an idea, maybe the daughters mother actually died a long time ago and that was the catalyst for the father which caused the depression and eventually the drug use'.


Kellie (18)
Finally ' it sounds as thought it could be along the lines of crime drama. and anyone who knows me knows I love a good crime or mystery and I love a bit of drama. I love films that have cliff-hangers. its like when you read a really good book and you get to the end and theres a huge twist and it ends on  a cliff-hanger and you just want more. cliff hangers and you just want more. cliff hangers are just exciting because there's usually twists and things you weren't expecting and they get you all excited wanting more of the story. The idea in itself is good. I think maybe you could add a little more mystery in it, even if its the tiniest little thing. it would appeal to my age group, but could also appeal to those older than me because of the mystery and crime essence about it'.


Findings from the feedback
Overall from out audience feedback its clear that we need to give more information about the father as this was stated in three of the feedbacks. as a group we will discuss how we can change this and make the idea better. and it has also been made clear that the audience would like more mystery in the storyline.