To gather results for our questionnaire we used an opportunity sample, meaning we used people that were available to us at the time, this means we could get quick and helpful results. Although we only managed to get people from one age group; despite this the questionnaire results gave us a good understanding of our audiences preferences.
There were an almost equal amount of male to females answering so this means the results can be generalized to both gender; similarly with age, so our audience are males and females in their late teens (16-19). We are going to use a group of characters as potential victims as that was the most popular result which also strays away from our original idea of having a young girl in the plot, but this was fortunately changed to a group, of 3-5 teenagers, so this makes the concept easier for us to adapt.Considering all the people answering requested tension and suspense followed by most of them agreeing this was created best through sound, this allows us to use sound to our advantage to create tension and please the audience. We only included 6 questions in our questionnaire so we could have more control over adapting and improvisation throughout the filming and editing stages.
Story board
I've joined into a group with Heather and Beth who originally planned a plot including a young girl but, as that was a hard character to portray with the people we had available, we had to adapt the plot a little so that was then changed to a group of teenagers which is then a lot easier for us in terms of finding actors and actresses to film as we have people in sixth form available to us. The story board is a rough plan of how we want the film opening to flow which contains the arrival upon an abandoned location, inserts of where dialogue should be present and how the characters act about the situation. The story board is only a rough representation of the filming process as it means we have something to go on but we also have room for improvisation during the time we're filming so if we have any spur of the moment ideas that are good then we can include them into the filming process. The abandoned infrastructure we're going to use was found when location scouting and is only a 5-10 minute walk from school which means we can easily get there and back during free periods or in media lesson time so not only is it a great location but it's also extremely convenient for not only us as a group, but the actors and actresses taking part too.
Location Scouting
Location scouting proved a success as we came across an abandoned green house still standing which is easily accessible from school and easily explorable, we took multiple photographs of aesthetically pleasing aspects and features throughout the abandoned infrastructure that we'd potentially include in our filming process.
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