focus group write up

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’s only males, I think unless the females found the men attractive but otherwise more females would be better

I not sure if id watch it because if its 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 cant 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 its about or even the characters names.

The focus group was very helpful to our initial idea however a lot of the points made are points which would be very helpful if we were making a full series and not just the opening 2 minutes, we have set our main characters, we could however add girls in which would be a great idea but I think that’s an idea for later on in the series not for the opening 2 minutes as I believe even 3 characters is more then enough when it comes to introducing new people to an audience.

I believe that an idea coming from one of the focus group members questioning whether our concept was a comedy and if not the challenges we would have to face because of the pre watershed element. This is a very good idea we could incorporate into our urban teen drama idea. This is a great idea as shows we are basing our concept on such as ‘misfits’ are serious shows but still have elements of comedy in them.

The idea we have for the opening 2 minutes is not to show the genre of show but the characters, we are going to try and capture the audience’s attention by making them connect to our characters instead of have to worry about minor loose ends which would only occur as a problem if we were making a full series.

A member of the focus group questioned the name The Bench for our title of the show, saying it was boring and didn’t mean much, I can see where she is coming from, but I don’t think she understood the main concept of the bench, it’s a communal area however they believe its theirs, they have a sort of attachment to it, so why not name the show about the most reoccurring object in the storyline?

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

This quote is exactly what we are going for, we will aim to use mise en scene and clever camera techniques to really make the first 2 minutes eye catching and really make the viewer want to carry on watching by giving an insight into the characters lives but not giving too much away, in terms of any narrative.