Target audience

Focus group feedback

In our last media lesson we presented a brief pitch of our projects and each received feedback from the other members of the focus group

It was helpful as it allowed me to take on board the views of the teenage demographic who alongside the adult demographics complete the target audience for my trailer. 

• Everyone was intrigued and interested with my plot line and its themes like family and death as well as features like character development

• There was also appraisal for my storyboards for containing a range of shot types

• However some feedback i got on this was that i should clarify in my shot listing exactly what shot it is, and how im going to achieve it, for example the shot of me through the second floor window of ,my house. Ideally i would like this to be a close up, but this feedback has helped me realise ill have to consider a long shot as well.

• Another idea suggested was that in the same scene i could add a flashback when the protagonist sees the ghostly figures of his parents in the road, or use visual effects to add a sense of the supernatural so i can clarify that they aren't really there and that he is envisaging this as part of his emotional development. Therefore this would also help me target the teenage demographic because this piece of feedback which was put forward by quite a few suggests they would be more entertained if i included a slight technical twist in my presentation of this scene in the trailer.

• Meanwhile i was also queried about where dialogue would be heard in my trailer and although i was planning on using narration, i have yet to specify where. Therefore i think i should include a small preliminary part to my trailer before the part i labelled 'the beginning' which features a brief line of dialogue or a monologue from the protagonist which will help set the scene, introduce the protagonist and give my audience an insight into his thoughts and feelings. In the intermediate part i will also use dialogue, particularly from other characters like the sister and auntie and use a one loner from the antagonist for the climax of the trailer.