Research & Planning: Results from Questionnaires

All of our groups had the questionnaire sheets and went out too ask different people for answers, these are my sections of answers I found out. From my series of sheets I have learnt that from the first question half of the people voted for comedy and other half chose drama. This is beneficial anyway because we want to do Teen drama so they'd be engaged throughout. The reason for why we left comedy out is as much as it's good having a challenge it could be very hard entertaining the audience and starting with comedy for two minutes only. So picking drama including suspense would be easier and audience could engage more by means of our knowledge put in this, as we are expecting to want to feel that sense in watching more. Most of the pupils picked E4 for watching teen-series this is what I expected as researching the institution I discovered that the series were indeed very popular so most teens would watch it and engage within it.  'Pretty Little Liars' is our inspiration from E4 as we have analysed it and seen how much suspense their is throughout continuously. We can learn from the camera angles, effects, sound and lightings which all build tension and create suspense. 

Yet again most of the pupils said they watch Pretty-little liars which again is affective as that certain series depicts off a lot of suspense and drama which we could use when producing our final clip. As a group we wanted to find out what engages the teenagers to watch what they are seeing. I discovered from my gathered research that most are engaged with suspense. Whilst they were answering I questioned them why, most of them did say because it keeps them entertained and excited for the next time they are watching it. And it get's them thinking like who could that be, who died why did that happen what the cause it is for the problem. Likewise in our 2-minute opening programme we want to encourage our audience to feel that way too wanting to think what's going to happen next, having that certain mind frame. Out of 5 sheets we saw how most said they'd like a suspense title-sequence the reason being as if their viewing a teen-drama a suspense title-sequence is something they'd like a therefore be engaged with. We discussed this in a group previously and thought about having a short suspense title-sequence with bright colours to attain the audience's attention. Many did say the liked our idea and thought it was original however one person did feel as if they wanted more characters in the opening as it would draw the audience and allow them to be introduced like a real series. This is something I'm going to consider and converse with my group members as it is a vital point to be brought up.