First lesson: What are we going to research, why and how?

For our first Media lesson, we made a plan of what we were going to research throughout the course. We studied what, where and why we were going to research these aspects of our work, and how we were going to do this. This will help us when actually carrying out my research, as it will guide us with what we are researching and why.

We decided that the most important aspects to research would be our audience and their demographics, and the openings of other Psychological Thrilers.

Researching locations for our opening and actors/acresses who we would have perform in it will also be an important job, but relies on the information from our audience research to carry out.



Our table showing what we are going to research, why and how we are going to do it.
 

To gain information about our audience, and to find out who they are, what they enjoy and what they do and don't like in Psychological Thriller, we decided that the most effective option would be to host focus groups and get people to fill in questionnaires/surveys. This would give us the primary research we need to let us know what sort of plot we will use in our opening.

To find out the codes and conventions of a Psychological Thriller, we decided that we would search openings of other films of the genre on youtube and rent out DVDs, and also look at other students coursework to see what did and didn't work for them.