Thriller Vox Pops and analysis

Vox Pops analysis.

Filming the vox pops I learned that you need to focus on having the interviewee in a quiet place but still with the public in the background which lets the audience know that they are part of the public that will give us their honest opinion and not someone that answers the question the way we want them to.

You also need to focus on lighting because if the lighting is too low it can make it hard for the audience to see, it also makes it really noticeable if the light changes between clips.

 After filming my vox pops I leaned that the majority of thriller audiences like thriller openings that build up tension because it keeps them on the edge of their seat and makes them want to know more about the movie so they keep watching.

Most of my interviewees preferred crime or psychological thrillers to other sub genres, mainly because they play around with your fears and make you scared or confused, they are also more relatable as they are things that could happen in real life. They are also usually very dramatic which can mean they contain things like explosions and fight scenes which was a specific interest of one of my interviewees.

I think that our vox pops went well as we successfully got a good amount of people with a range of ages to answer our questions; this meant that we got more of a range of answers. We also managed to get a variety of men and women to answer so that the answers were more diverse and fair. We edited it so that there were short clips of each person we asked to make sure that the audience don’t get bored watching one long answer. We also added a few funny parts within the vox pops to keep the audience interested which makes them want to watch. We kept all of the interviewees at the right side of the field of vision which meant that you can see the background. The only interviewees that were not in a public were Mr Lewis and Callum although Callum was filmed in an area with background noise so that the viewers are aware that he is in a public place.

 The information that we got from our audience has helped us to think of some ideas to put toward our thriller, for example nearly all of our interviewees commented on how they like tense music, because we got this feedback we will focus on music that will build up suspense.

 A few of our interviewees supplied the same answer that they like a crime scene that is unexplained at the beginning of a thriller because it makes them want to watch the rest of the film to find out what happened. Anther common answer to what makes an effective thriller opening is a psychological twist or effect to engage audience.

we also learned that non of our audience are interested in supernatural aspects of a thriller film because no one mentioned it, therefore we will stay away from anything to do with a supernatural story line.