Group: Audience Research Analysis:

Question 1: What do you think happened in our opening?

• The response was very encouraging, everyone understood what was taking place within the opening and also understood the colour scheme with black and white colour wash meaning the past and the ordinary coloured shots were in the present. Demonstrating it was not confusing for the audience.

Question 2: What Genre do you think it is?

• Each interviewee thought that the opening was in a Thriller genre, due to the iconography used, the stock characters and also conveyed the key conventions Thrillers.

Question 3: Who do you think the protagonist was?

• Most people saw that the protagonist was the detective, however some believed it was the killer due to the fact that the audience were positioned with him, and some believed it was Alex, as he was the main character within our opening and has most time on screen.

Question 4: Who was the antagonist?

• The audience all worked out that the antagonist was the psychological killer as he was the murderer and was doing things that were evil.

Question 5: What was the victim's role, what was his profession?

• Most of our audience believed that the victim's role was to be killed in order to set up the film (to have a detective chasing a murderer). They also thought his profession was a high up city worker such as a banker or journalist, and was middle-class.

Question 6: What do you think of the sound used, is it used effectively?

• Our audience believed that the sound was used very effectively and that it helped to create tension and was very atmospheric. They believed that the sound fit the opening perfectly.

Question 7: Are the titles clear?

• Our audience found are titles perfectly clear and they could all read them easily, also the amount of time the titles were on the screen was perfect to allow all our audience to read them.

Question 8: Do you think the titles fit the genre?

• Our age group for our target audience thought the fonts fitted the genre perfectly, however the older generation believed they were too fancy and preferred simplistic titles.