Questionnaire
1) Are you male [ ] or female [ ] ?
2) What is your age group ?
[ ] 16 - 20
[ ] 21 - 25
[ ] 26 - 30
[ ] over 30
3) How often do you watch crime dramas ?
[ ] I dont watch them
[ ] I watch them sometimes
[ ] I watch them frequently
[ ] I watch them all the time
[ ] Other.
If other please specify .......................................
4) How should domestic violence be represented sensitively ?
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5) Do you prefer to see the crime happen or piece it together yourself ?
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6) What appeals to you about crime dramas ?
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7) What stereotypes do you expect to see in a crime drama ?
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8) Do you think the idea of a female murderer is effective? and why ?
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9) What do you think about the idea of a psychological crime drama ?
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10) What types of narrative structures do you prefer in a crime drama ?
[ ] Flashbacks
[ ] Twists
[ ] Conspiracies
[ ] None of the above
Analysis of questionnaire results from Servey Monkey.
From the results of our questionnaire I can see that most of the people that watch Crime Drama's are female. This would mean that for our opening sequence our production group should aim to grip more females to watch than males, which will be especially easy as the main character for our opening sequence is a female.
A lot of the people that answered the questionnaire were between 16-20 with 4 results followed by ages 26-30 and over 30's both with one respose. From this I can see that our opening sequence not only needs to be targeted slightly toward more females but also to a younger target audience of around 16-20 year olds, possibly by making the opening sequence more modern. Especially with the crimes that we have used such as knife crime and domestic violence mostly being common with teenagers and young adults. This is also helpful as the main character Sarah is 18 and fits into the age group that will mostly watch.
Question 3 is helpful as I can get an idea of how many people would watch our Crime Drama if it was to be published. By the majority of the people that answered saying that they would watch them sometimes means that they would probably watch our opening sequence once if not twice depending on how gripping it is making them want to watch more.
From the results I can see that alot of people like to peice the Crime Drama together themselves, This is good as our opening sequence includes a lot of enigma codes, this means that the audience will be gripped throughout the whole of the sequence and can peice the enigma codes together themselves such as who has she killed ? And why has she killed them ? .
From what appeals to the target audience i can see that they like things that are different and gripping. In our opening sequence we have shown this by using gender role reversals so that it is Sarah that ends up killing her boyfriend instead of him killing her through the domestic violence. As well as having a black female character play the lead instead of a white female typical to most Crime Dramas. As suggested our opening sequence includes quite a few twists within the diverse issues of knife crime and domestic violence as well as a gripping story line due to all of the enigma codes.
From the results shown i can see that the characters in our opening sequence are quite sterotypical, we have the good guy, bad guy role, Sarah being the good guy and the victim of domestic violence from her boyfriend James who is the bad guy. Sarah can aslo be shown as the bad guy too once the audience learn that she has killed her boyfriend. We do include a murderer, as Sarah ends up killing James and can also be seen as psycchopathic as the flashbacks shown will see her thinking about all the good and bad times, her over thinking about the situation and then lashing out and killing James which links into our hybrid genre of a Psychological Crime Drama.
Our opening sequence does link in with alot of what comment four is talking about. The psychological side to our film is shown mainly through the flashbacks during the happy and sad scenes, it represents Sarah the main character re thinking over every thing that has happened between her and James throughout their whole relationship, happy at first but then towards the end things start to really go wrong and this plays on Sarah's mind. As well as the fact that she decides to kill James as if that is the only way out of the situation instead of thinking about other logical options such as to call the police or to just run away and leave him for good, The fact that she decides straigh away to kill him makes her look rather psychopathic. Also James is shown as being slightly psychopathic as one he uses domestic violence on Sarah and two he will be shown as a dark, misty figure, by the audience not being able to see what James actually looks like adds a psychological twist to the them as they are trying to think about what he looks like, if he really looks that bad to be wanting to commit a crime as harsh as this, A good way of showing an enigma code and keeping the audience hooked.
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