Audience research

Here is a vox pop my group and I filmed to gain an insight into what people typically think of BSR films etc and if they liked our idea. This would help up to gain feedback to be able to improve our initial idea to make it more suited to the BSR genre.

After looking at our feedback from the people we interviewed i put the collective data into a table showing positive and negative feedback.

Here is a persona i created to be 'My audience' who i thought would enjoy watching my BSR production. It outlines the characters interests and social activities.

The audience re-search helped a lot with getting an idea of how and what we could improve our idea with.

One key aspect which I thought came up  was the exaggerated aspect of our characters life and how we either tone it down for realism or keep it exaggerated for the entertainment purpose. Which I think was a valid point and choosing which to do is tricky, I think that trying to find a middle ground of having some smaller parts exaggerated and the bigger aspects more authentic to be able to keep that entertainment value as well as making sure it keeps to most conventions of the BSR genre.

A lot of people said that violence, drugs and action were major themes that they would want generally from films and implementing this into our production is quite straight forward as our narrative revolves around these themes, but it has occurred to me that the way we illustrate these are key because we are trying to make it as realistic as possible and not like a hollywood blockbuster.

Another point I think we should take note of is that most people who had a favourite BSR film said either kidulthood or adulthood was their favourite. So looking as these films and taking inspiration from them could help us improve our production significantly.

Having an adolescent as our protagonist i think helps us make the audience able to relate to the character as most of the people that would watch BSR films are around that age. Seeing as in the vox pop people said that most BSR films they have watch have been relatable to themselves this is a positive part of our idea.

Also people said that they an engaging storyline from the outset and plot twists, seeing as our idea doesn't go straight in to action which doesn't make it very engaging i think we could improve on this by having a smash-mouth opening to get the audience interested from the beginning.