The document discusses research done on the action genre audience to inform the storyline for a new action film. It was found that action fans prefer films involving hostage or terrorism plots like Die Hard and Rambo. To attract a 15-25 year old audience, the film will open with a "good guys vs bad guys" hostage situation, as tense opening scenes are important to hook viewers based on studies of films like Saving Private Ryan, Terminator, and Rambo. The chosen storyline pits two good mercenary characters against a house of terrorists.

2. We went on Amazon to firstly see what kind of an audience watches
the Action genre, we looked at what people bought and what else
they were attracted to. We saw that people often bought the same
kind of storylines.

3. We found that people who watch Action genre mainly watch films with
Hostages or terrorism storylines like the Die Hard Films and Rambo films.
We therefore wanted to incorporate this kind of storyline “good guys vs the
bad guys” with our opening of the film as we knew we would attract an
audience from the ages of 15-25 as we knew our BBFC age rating being 15.

4. We watched some films to see how these action films attract the audience
from the beginning. Films like saving private Ryan, Terminator and Rambo
immediately get the audience attracted with tense up beat scenes.
Therefore we wanted our film to start right in the action so we would keep
the audience watching .

5. We decided to base our film on a hostage situation to attract an audience of a
wider range as possible as people seem to like the tension and build up to
the rescue in the film. We decided to go with two good characters
(mercenaries) against a house full of terrorists; we thought this would be
the best scenario to go with as the target market agreed with us that they
would prefer this to any other storyline.