We think that our media product is reflective of the Postmodern view because our media product questions what reality is what different people's interpretation of reality. Postmodernism is sceptical of once secure theories of the truth and questions whether our perception of the truth is distorted by the media. Our media product also questsions the truth and one's perception of the truth by using a character that is not of sound mind.
Our media product also doesn't have that much of a plotline (not as much as our old idea, which was very plot-heavy and dominated by dialogue); we are mainly relying on camera shots to convey the plot and to convey the emotions of the characters rather than dialogue. This is quite typical of a Postmodern text; looks are more important than utility. We hope to bring in these ideas to our media product to make it more professional and artistic, thus more entertaining for the audience.
We have now recieved all of the 20 questionnaires that we handed out a few weeks ago and below are the results in pie charts:
Most of the people who responded to our questionnaire fell into the 16-19 bracket, which is exactly who the film is aimed for. None of the respondants were below othe age of 12, 15, which is what we wanted, s we didn't think our film idea would appeal to them as much.
We made sure that we gave the questionnaire out to 10 males and 10 females so that it was unbaised in terms of gender and then it wouldn't affect any of the other questions.
Altogether, 14 people wat 1-8 short films a month, and only one person watches 17-20 films a month. This is not what we hoped for, but it is what we expected. We hoped that we would find people that be interested in short films, but it seems that nowadays short films are not that popular. However, with our film, hopefully we can introduce people into watching more short films.
The vast majority of the people we asked use the Internet to watch films, which is hardly surprising. With the ever-growing popularity of the Internet with young people and the increasing number of websites that allow one to upload films easily and for free, the Internet is highly important for short films. Sometimes, short filsm are shown before feature films in cinemas and on DVDs, but this is rare.
Unsurprisingly, YouTube.com is the most popular video hosting website that our demographic use to watch short films. However, MegaVideo.com is also quite popular. Hayley and I will post our short film on both YouTube.com and MegaVideo.com to ensure that we attract the moast amount of viewers.
Judging by this graph, 16 poeple whould be interested in seeing a psychological thriller, which is good. Despite the fact that 6 of these 16 said maybe, I think that if we make a good film, they will want to see it.
In this graph, we can see that the majority of people asked said that they would like to see a female protagonist. This is what we hoped the result would be like; we planned to use Hayley as the main character; If the audience wanted a male main character, we would have to rely on other people outside the group to help us, and we would rather use the two of us because we know what we are both reliable and serious about this coursework.
The audience said that they would like a teen protagonist, perhaps because they can relate to the character more and it a break from the norm. An adult protagonist would be more true to the nature of schizophrenia as it more common in adults, but the beginnings of schizophrenia comes in late teens, so it would more effective with a teenage protagonist as the character would be uncure of what was going on and more scared.
Plot-heaviness seems to be a favourite, as shown here. This goes against what we originally planned, as we going to rely on camera shots to tell the story, but I think that we may be able to work in more dialogue than we planned to have without it becoming too dialogue-heavy like our old idea.
Now that we have got our audience research, we asked one our friends who filled in a questionnaire if we could be used as our audience profile. He agreed, and it is shown below:
