We decided to answer this question as a group however our filming was cut short so I completed my part of this talk via a voice recording. Enjoy: video: extra voice over:
Here is a short animation introduction of my response: So after production we decided to show it to some target audience members: And then we asked them questions such as: How clear is the storyline? Is it clear that Maya is the main character? Is it clear which social class they belong to? (Drew and Maya) How is Maya Represented? Any other comments? Her name is Esther by the way (don't know why I forgot to ask her that in the clips)
We aimed to have our audience to be teenagers and young adults as well as dedicated fans of boxing and the boxing movie genre as we wanted them to watch our media product and their feedback would enable other people to want to view our project through word of mouth. Here is a moodboard showing the type of research we did into our target audience: Here is a prezi that I first uploaded on my research and planning blog that shows the earlier factors we considered when deciding who to cater our opening sequence towards:
Here is my response in the form of a video: link: (here are two links incase one link doesn't work but the same video is in both: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jNjxhMGDwBMG1YQVlPU05aX2c/view?usp=sharing https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzf91kwdnfxx5iv/My%20Movie%202_CLIPCHAMP_480p%20%281%29.mp4?dl=0