1. Audience Questions
These are the questions that I asked my audience
1. What genre is this opening sequence?
2. What are you left wondering?
3. How did you feel watching this opening sequence?
4. How is the female character portrayed?
5. How is the male character portrayed?
6. Please rate out of 5 how clear the storyline is? (5=Very Clear
& 1=Poor)
7. What are the strengths?
8. What are the weaknesses?
9. Would you want to carry on watching?
10. What would you do differently?

2. Adult women Teenage women
Drama - could be
Drama
thriller/crime drama if
he is a serial killer!
What is the Drama
Drama – the start of teen
Mystery genre? romance
Drama
Drama
Drama - woe adventure!
Adult Men
Modern
Not sure to assess genre from
Teenage boys opening sequence if I was to say I
would say drama if that is a
Comedy – its not a genre?
thriller or action movie Drama
and I don’t know any
others but it made me
laugh
Drama

3. Adult women Teenage women
Why has she left home?
What’s going to happen
X2
next?
I think Sam is genuine, but
What are What’s going to happen next
perhaps he is not real you left to the two of them?
Is Taylor going to return
Is it dangerous going with
him? wondering? home?
Is Sam a scary rapist person?
How come he is homeless?
What will happen to Taylor?
What will the camp be like?
Is she doomed to living on the
Are they going to get streets? What is going to
together? happen at the place Sam is
taking her?
Adult Men
What will happen to the girl?
Are Sam’s intentions honourable?
Teenage boys What would have happened if he had
not come along (assuming he is not as
Who is Sam? What is his crazy as he seemed – bouncing in from
background? nowhere) and she had met the
Is she going to be OK? druggies?
Motivation of male
How will she find the other people?
And will she be better off? Quite
exciting really

4. Teenage women Adult women
Like she was starting an
How did Intrigued
adventure
Like it was the start of a
you feel Curious
Sad intrigued engaged
journey for her watching
I felt sympathy towards the
main character and this opening
worried towards what will
happen to her in her future sequence?
Made me curious
Sad because poor Taylor
has no home now - worried
she will get attacked on the
streets
Adult Men
I am interested to see what
happens next
Teenage boys What had gone on in the past to
make her snap?
Intrigued Why is there not an exam for
Quite dramatic parenting?
Interested understanding and
sad

5. Adult women Teenage women
Shy and timid but
Rather an unhappy
contrasting to her actions
volatile girl
Angry and puzzled
How is the Shy timid wanting to escape
Poor, sad, vulnerable female trusting of strangers
Rebellious independent
and lonely
character worried and scared
Frustrated drained angry
portrayed? As someone who has simply
had enough of her home life
yet she is sad that it has come
to this and she still quite cant
believe it
Adult Men
Quite shy and easily controlled
Sad determined spontaneous Teenage boys
Sad unsure unplanned
She's lost and lonely
Scared

6. Adult Men Teenage women
Friendly and talkative
Confident and
Scary naïve sweet?
Open and helpful
How is the trustworthy
Confident and friendly
male Friendly helpful strange
character Seemly friendly and
charitable but is probably
portrayed? evil
Forthcoming friendly
creepy
Adult women
As a pleasant friendly
Teenage boys helpful boy
Trusting
Excited and friendly Happy lively posh
Confident

7. Adult women
5 Adult Men
4
4
Rate out of 5
5 the clarity 4.5
4
of the
storyline
Teenage boys
3 Teenage women
4
5
5
5
Average 4
3
4.27

8. Teenage women Adult women
The journey sequence at the
Good storyline good
beginning What are music
Intense dramatic start
The journey sequence (the camera
shots of the conversation) the Nice music interested to
I really like the use of matched cut know more about both
as the main character Taylor is strengths? characters
walking, I think there was good over
the shoulder shots and a strong script
along with good cinematography
Strong characters
Strife at home good representation
shows Taylor’s journey well and her
naivety – she doesn’t know what to do
or where to go poignant by showing
how. Intrigues the viewer hey are
emotionally attached.
Adult Men
Love the way its shot i.e. the
person walks through the camera
Teenage boys rather than the camera
following the person
The settings of the film Great music that sets the mood
and the locations chosen Taylor acts well
The music Good story camera work and
credits and relevant
Good camera work angles
characters lighting

9. Adult women Teenage boys
No apparent weaknesses Some shots of characters
Wind
Wind
What are are too long
The sound of the wind
the
weaknesses?
Adult Men
Teenage women
The male character is a bit poor
People not quite framed he sounds like he is reading a
Characters heads cut off script
slightly shaking Could have scripted Taylor to
There were not any protest more before she follows
weaknesses Sam
Some of the camera Male character a little stilted
angles were a bit
obstructive
Difficult storyline to
understand

10. Adult women Teenage women
Definitely yes
Yes
Yes
Definitely
Would you Yes
Yeah
carry on Ya
watching? Yes to see what happens
next
Adult Men
Teenage boys
Yepp
Yes I am curious to find out Yes
what happens next Yes
Yes

11. Teenage women
Lighting (shadows on Sam’s
Adult women face)
Nothing different at this Lighting
Nothing
stage
More dialogue towards
What would Make the storyline more
the end you do explicit
Have the “cos you don’t know
Take it slower maybe
have Taylor explain differently? where you are” bit of the song
continue for a while with
more, but in general
terms, about leaving Taylor wandering about for a
home bit longer because that’s the
climax of the song reshoot the
talking when there is less wind
its pooping up the sound
Adult Men
Get a different male actor
Probability do the playing
Teenage boys field/monument segment under
some skanky arches in London
Include more dialogue with obvious danger and a few
Yes I would change the tears from Taylor would not go
font of the titles to be amiss these things aside I think
more dramatic it was a its pretty darn good
little boring Show male walking/running
before entrance