Focus Group Analysis

For our focus group we asked three film fans what they thought of our three ideas and what they liked, disliked and what they think was missing. We filmed their reply so we could always go back to it.

Idea one is of a man who finds a bag on an empty street, he looks inside and decides to take what ever might be inside. A second man sees him with the bag and follows him. The first man realises and tries to run away by going through/around/over obstacles and doing so drops the bag from a bridge and it floats away to a bank where the camera pans up onto who will be the main character finding the bag puts it on his back and walks away.

Idea two is a drug deal undertaking which is interrupted by the sound of police sirens and both men run in opposite directions. The dealer is then chased by an under cover police officer in plain clothes. The dealer hides and eludes the police officer where then walks away from the camera where the opening credit would then roll.

Idea three opens in a small room with a shot of a man tied up to a chair, he is being interrogated by a unknown person behind the camera. The man in the chair has different flashbacks to him running away from an unseen antagonist, he over comes obstacles to try and escape but ends up being caught and in the situation we see him in the first place. The unknown man is asking questions like "where is it?" "what have you done with it?". When the man in the chair is unblind folded once his eyes have adjusted he sees an silhouette of a man still unseen and a door which is then kicked down by our protagonist and saves the man in the chair.


The focus group tells us that the best ideas are idea three and one. They thought that idea two would be difficult to do and not very interesting. They said that they wouldn't go and see number two at the cinema but they would with number one and three. They said that the idea of the bag and the mystery of what was in the bag was a good idea.

What we have taken from the focus group is that idea three is the best and that we should try to use the mystery concept while filming.

Focus Group

survey monkey results evaluation

my results show that most people like films as 90% of people who took my survey said they do. My survey is fairly even because 60% who took it were male and 40% where female so there it is almost half and half. The highest age range which took my survey is 18 - 24 year olds with 40%, then its 11 - 17 with 30%, then its 0 - 10 with 20%, then its 25 - 31 with 10% and then 32+ with 0%. Most people watch 6 - 10 and 11 - 15 films per month. the most liked film genre is comedy with 33%, and thriller is tied with action and horror at 22%. Four people's favourite films are thriller out of 10 people. While 60% of my audience said they disliked thrillers. 44% of people say they would like to see suspense in a thriller.

survey monkey results

Unknown

The thriller Unknown made in 2011 was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell, staring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones. It was very successful making $130,786,397 worldwide. 

The film is about Dr Martin Harris (played by Liam Neeson) who is in an accident and goes into a coma but when he awakes he discovers that someone has taken on his identity and no one believes him not even his own wife (January Jones). With the help of a young woman (Diane Kruger) he tries to piece together his memories and prove he is who he says he is.

Unknown is a typical thriller because of its violence, action, fast paced editing and twists.

An Example of the fast paced editing and action is in the car chase scene:

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Craig Haxell Mise-en-scene: Sean Lusted Sound: Sean Lusted Editing: Craig Haxell

Title: “Hush” Tag Line: “Stay Calm, Keep Quiet, Survive”

Synopsis: A man who is being interrogated is tied up in a dark small room (top light), he keeps having flash backs to how he got there e.g. being chased, running through a busy street away from antagonist, over-coming obstacles to escape capture (jumping walls, climbing fence, under barriers…) then the door is kicked down by a man with a gun who shoots the interrogator and saves the man.

Key Genre Conventions: Thriller “Cliff-hanger” “Chase” “Macguffin” “Protagonist and antagonist” “Suspense” “Red Herring”

Title Sequence

The title sequence is to introduce and give credit to the people who where involved with the film for example the production company Ident (logo), the main actors, the director, the producer, the music composer, the screenplay writer(s), and the editor. The title sequence usually include the film title as well.
The order that they are shown are as follows;

1. Production company
2. Production presents 
3. A film by "producer" 
4. A film by "director"
5. Main actors
6. Cast
7. Music
8. Music supervisor
9. Costume designer
10. Editor 
11. Production designed by 
12. Cinematography 
13. Screen play 
14. Based on the novel 
15. Executive producer 
16. Produced by
17. Director
18. Title