Focus Group

Focus Group

Seems different, I would like to check out the first episode if it’s good I would carry on watching it.

I like that they involved twitter to get involved with the younger audience,

Sounds really good, I would watch it, it takes place at a bench all the time, like friends are always at a café but theirs is a bench.

So it works in terms of the location? Nice.

I like that there’s 3 characters so you can keep up with them, but there’s no female characters which I’m not interested in so I can’t really relate to it. But if they do add female characters, yeah I will tune in.

I don’t know anything about the storyline they just said that the concept…

I like the whole concept but I think the whole thing is targeted mostly towards males instead of females.

I think the ideas really good but the names kind of boring because the names something that grabs the audience’s attention but the bench it kind of, boring you know  Like ‘the bench’ what’s that?

If you had a more exciting name I think it’d be better and urm if you had females as well because there are only males, I think unless the females found the men attractive but otherwise more females would be better

I not sure if I’d watch it because if it’s just about three boys then I wouldn’t as I would want to see more females characters.

Yeah I like it I would watch it but are you going for like a comedy or something?

Cause I don’t know if it would be successful if you can’t swear.

I think hargio’s point is a good one.

Well I don’t know enough about the show to know whether I would watch it I mean you haven’t even explained what it’s about or even the characters names.

We learnt a lot from the focus group as it helped us in improving our idea and our final project. we was told that it would be a good idea to add a female character. I think this is good, however this will be done later on in the series as we do not want to introduce too many characters at once, as this would give away the storyline. We also learnt that the class believed that our TV show is targeted at only male and does not have a female audience. I believe this is incorrect as the genre we are going for contains a female audience as well as a male audience, for example Kiduthood has a wide female audience and also contained mainly of male characters. However I believe once we introduce our female characters we will gain more female viewing. During the focus group it came across that our name seemed quite boring. I believe that this name suites the concept of our idea, as the focus group did not understand where we was coming from, as they do not know why we have named the TV show the bench. Furthermore they will later find out what the meaning of the bench is as the TV show progress. as the TV show goes in the audience will then come to an understand of why we named the TV show the bench as it will be an obvious answer. We had more than one negative comment about no female characters, therefore I believe we should of stated in our focus group that we are going to introduce female characters later on later on. I believe that it is possible to make this TV show successful because other pre watershed TV shows, such as Waterloo Road and Eastenders have done this with success. We will aim to use mise en scene and camera shots to make the first 2 minutes to hook viewers. This will then make the viewer want to carry on watching the rest of the series. This would be done by giving an hint to the characters’ lives but not giving too much away, of any of the narrative.