Monday 13 February 2012

Audience Expectations: Romance

I conducted a survey asking eight people questions about romance films to find out what they expect and enjoy to see in a film of this genre. Romance is one of our potential genres for our film opening, and can help us to create an opening to suit the potential audience. It also allows us to compare different genres for our opening. The survey includes a range of ages and gender, allowing us to see a range of expectations.

The results show that the audience expect a stereotypical boy meets girl romance film certified 12 or 12A. Majority of audience members felt that the main protagonist should be a young adult, and set in the modern day. However, there were mixed views as to if the ending should be happy and how many protagonists should be introduced in the opening.

Within our group, we covered a wide range of genres from romance to action. This is because we wanted to see what people thought of a variety of genres and so that we could gain an understanding of what people would want to see in an opening of each genre. This then allowed us to see what would work well in a student film and what we could produce in the short amount of time we will have to film and on the small budget that we will have. We need to take this into consideration because we do not want our opening to look like a student film, but more professional.

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