Audience

Lazy Days doesn't target a specific audience; this is due to the fact that short film in general doesn't have a specified audience, the people that generally watch short film are the public who stumble across short film, the majority of short film is on the the internet and video streaming websites so its not difficult to find. without a specified audience short film has alot more freedom and can appeal to anyone who knows about short films and attends festivals, Lazy days targets such a diverse audience mainly the super fans of short film that show deep enthusiasm for short film no matter the genre; Lazy Days also targets the Youtube audience; which is for the majority older males aged 20-30; directly as the majority of youtubers do comdey sketches and post them for the whole world to see, lazy days fits in with this audience because the narrative of our short is exactly what youtube is about, short and sweet with a comedic quirkyness to brighten someones day. the main reasons i feel lazy days appeals to both of these audiences is due to the pace of the editing; its snappy and up beat, this directly appeals to anyone who sees anything of comedic value as it grabs attension, the music for lazy days alongside the editing appeals to people who watch it as i've proof tested this by playing it in an empty room at home with the sound up and seeing who comes in because of the quirky cowboy music during each of the television stalkings; it works to say the least and makes people smile, these are incredibly attractive qualities for our internet and short film entusiast audience.

Our influences clearly show that we have an audience; which is predominantly male due to the fact that The Mitchell And Webb look and Withnail and I are very dark comedys that target males to laugh at things you wouldn't normally see happen; esentially exactly what lazy days is all about- with the distinct comparisons between the influences and our short film its clear that the audiences is for mainly males in their 20's-30's who have a passion for technology perhaps an obsession which directly links to the moral message of our short.




As directed in lesson we've shown our short film to the year 12s who had been taught nothing abotu short film atall, and came only bearing the knowlege that they've aquired without any teacher guidance. we had to aquire feedback from the class with a questionnaire that we'd handed out.
The feedback was very interesting to read, and we'd realised some errors we'd not previously seen in lazy days before, issues such as the lighting being too dark and some students not being able to see what was happening. Another major issue that was presented to us due to the feedback was the narratives ending. "i felt it lost my interest towards the end..." looking back at each persons comment on the ending being a let down i couldn't help but agree to each of their critisisims about it. the feedback from the year 12s made me realise that Lazy days was a good piece or work, however it needed a few minor changes such as changing the colour balanace and making the ending more engaging for the audience to make it so much better than it already was. The year 12s pointed out the key things that made lazy days work, these were the music, "i felt the music should have been for a cowboy movie however it worked!", one major part of the questionnaire i'm pleased about is the fact that everyone that did it had such a mixture of different opinions on what the moral message of lazy days was, i felt this was a huge success on the groups part as we were all undecided on what our moral was, we each had our different perceptions of it.



Attempts were made to get other feedback for lazy days by postion the video on facebook, this didn't turn out as planned as the only person we were to get feedback from was my mother, who's idea of feedback was "how did you get the tv into the fridge?" but with all of the feedback from the year 12's this didn't create much of a barrier when it came to looking at the feedback individually.