Research into audience expectations

What I want to find out

Investigate sub genre
What the audience expect of:
-location
-Props
-Characters
-Settings

How I am going to investigate

Interviews with resources
Questionnaire
Clip screening followed by questionnaires

5-10 Minute clip screening
Possible clips

- Once Upon In America

-Psycho (such as this famous shower scene!)





- Layer Cake

- Thelma and Louise

Followed by questionnaire/ discussion of
-Expectation of
location
Props
Characters
Settings
Etc

Or

Comparison of a mainstream with independent
for example
-London to Brighton v Casino Royle
Discuss auidence expectationsof mainstream and independent thriller film

Rough dicussion question ideas

-What do kinds of conventions do the auidence expect?
-Do they prefer mainstream or independent?
-Do they expect different or cetain locations, props etc from a mainstream, independent?
-Discuss what the audience think of thrillers that challenge them as an audience? Say challenge generic conventions - Taritino's Jackie Brown challenges the generic convention of a male white lead.
-What are there expectations of mainstream and independent films?- What do they expect of them? Which do they prefer?