TARGET AUDIENCE INTERVIEWS

Those interviews show us that in an action film it is important there is the appearance of explosions, car crashes, fighting, bad people dying, a key story line and sometimes a love story between the main character and his/her assistant

The first person we interviewed was Mr Higgins, a young teacher under 35. He told us that in an action film the more important things are the explosions, the main character and how he/she looks like. He said that the genre of the main characters is not important, but he thinks that always is better to see a male, knowing that is easier for him to identify himself with the main character. He opened up telling us that he always wanted to be an action film character such as James Bond and Bruce Willis that show us that every time you watch an action film you want to identify yourself with the main character. This information helped our ideas for think about a film opening where the viewer can identify himself or herself with the main character.

The second person we interviewed was Mr Benzie, the Media Studies’ teacher, a male under 35. The key ideas of the interview were the same as Mr Higgins. I think the ideas which are transmitted for every action film are the same. But when we asked Mr Benzie what he wanted to be in an action film who have never saw before he answered a teacher. It does sound ridiculous, but people want to see normal people in strange situations, because you don’t see a crash car every day but you see a teacher more often. That shows us that the people want to see more characters which are easier for identify themselves with.

The third interview was to Jess and Gemma, our secondary Target Audience, demographics, females under 35. This interview was so helpful because we have two opinions in the same interview. We have Jess, who support action films, and Gemma who is against them. During the entire interview, we saw the reasons why one of them hates action films; however these are the same reasons which make the other girl like this type of films. This information shows us that, either you like or you don’t like action films. If you want to like an action film, you have to like car crashes, naked women, and fighting… This interview also shows us that the genre of the main character sometimes is important, because a muscular girl is not always beautiful. That help us know when we will make the main character, we have to think about how his/her looks likes, pay attention for if he/she is, natural, good looking, and a bit sexy.

 

Thanks to this video we have learn that in an action film the main character have to be someone who you can identify with. For example girls want to see women more ‘conventional’ no like Tom Raider, so muscular, more like a friend, a tiny and sportive girl without to be muscular. We also learned that in action films the conventions and what do you expect to see are car crashes, fighting, and a good story line.