Analysis of post-production questionairre.

After completing our opening sequence, we screened it to our target audience and sent them a questionaire. The intention of this was to see if we were effective in attracting our audience to our sequence.

The questionaire had 6 questions: 1) What did you like about our opening sequnce? 2) How do you think our opening sequence could be improved? 3) Did it have conventions of a thriller? 4) What were the representations? 5) What questions are posed from what you have seen? 6) Would the opening sequenc emake you want to carry on watching?

For the first question, people generally said that they liked the blurry effect in the point of view shot with Jeffery looking up at Nathaniel. The development of narrative was said to be good with the end being seen as interesting.

Responses to the second question said that the dialogue was too queit and difficult to hear.The cuts were said to be jumpy and some people criticised the lighting - although some felt that this added to the sinister atmosphere of the sequence.

This was mentioned in question three, when responses to the questionairre stated that our sequence did have conventions of a thriller as it created enigma and suspense. However it was suggsted that more suspense could have been created to keep the viewer on edge.

In regards to question four, most people picked up on the representation of black people as robbers and identified it as a stereotype.

For question five, people generally asked the question we wanted them to ask - 'Why did Nathaniel beat up Jeffery?' and 'What was the business Nathaniel was talking about?' this showed us that we were effective in creating enigma and had a clear cliffhanger, leading the viewer in the direction we wanted them.

Question six asked if the opening sequence would make the viewer want to continue watching, to which most people replied 'yes'. This gave us the feeling that our opening sequence was effective in reaching our audience.