Interview With a Focus Group

INTERVIEWER: What are you initial thoughts and feelings of the micro-series?

It was comedy, and it was one of those things that you could watch again because its not bad bad, but its kind of bad good. Like, it knows it's bad, but it makes it good. Like with the editing and stuff.

They developed, the characters, as it went on. I thought the second episode was better than the first, and the 3rd one. There was a lot more comedy and action to it.

I think the girl should have been in it more because she was just there and she didn't really do anything.

I think the first one focused more on the development of the characters. Just introducing them separately. Then the second one had a story base, and then the third one is just kind of random. It was just trippy and 'getting high' for no apparant reason until the end.

INTERVIEWER: What do you think of the characters and their interactions?

Josh's character (Chris) It might have been the shot type, but it just felt like he had been pasted in there.

INTERVIEWER: The idea was that the characters in each episode didn't really notice he was there because he was kind of in the back of the room.

I really liked Keith's character. But I didn't really like the girls character, but thats because she didn't really do much. But my favourite character is keith, and I liked Sonny, and Pier. They're probably joint second.

You had a good range of characters, and they weren't the same or anything which was good.
And they were really different which was good.

INTERVIEWER: Do you prefer the first, second or third episode and why?

The second one, because it didn't have all the hassle of the first one and the third one was just a bit confusing.

INTERVIEWER: Do you think it worked though?

I think the effect was to confuse the audience which worked, but it was just a bit weird and random. In terms of story-line.

INTERVIEWER: So did you prefer the second one?

I did prefer the second one but I got what was happening in the third one.

I prefered the second one. I though the first episode was too long and the thrid one was too short.

INTERVIEWER: Was the episode structure for the second and third episodes better than the first?

It flowed better than the first one.

INTERVIEWER: What do you think of the fan page on Facebook?

I havent seen a lot of it so far but from what I've seen i think it's good. I like the idea of posting things from the characters perspectives.

Yes, it gives you more of an insight into the characters.

I like the fan page, it's quite simple, but effective. It does keep it interesting, like you said about the characters posting things. It keeps the background story going for the web-series.

INTERVIEWER: The target audience was people our age. 16-21. Do you think Facebook is a good place for a fan page?

Yeah, definitely.

INTERVIEWER: Do you all have facebook?

(All four) Yes

INTERVIEWER: What do you think could be improved for the next episode if we made one?

Development of the second episode.I think you should cut out the swearing because it's just like a beep a minute. I know it was just in the first one but it was just like beep after beep after beep.

I'd quite like the same setting as the second one, but with a different story-line and different characters.Maybe have one or two main characters, and then rotate the other characters around. So you get to see the old characters, like the audience favourites, but then you get to see their new reactions with the new characters.

INTERVIEWER: What are the good and bad points of the episodes? Let's start with the first one...

It was too long, and too much swearing. The good points were that it managed to establish a good base for the episodes to start on, and it wasn't too tiresome that you couldn't watch it again.I think the first one introduced the characters well. There was too much swearing though, it was just beep, beep, beep.

I think you focus the humour too much on Keith going crazy at the beginning. Apart from the Frijj bit which was really funny. Good word play, but I found that there were the two funny bits, you need to stretch the comedy out. I found myself waiting the whole episode for the Frijj joke. There should be more.

INTERVIEWER: What about the second one?

I really liked the second one. It was funny and it had a good story.

I liked it too, and throughout all three of the episodes, the characters managed to stay the same which was good. Sometimes in television series the characters change. They're nice one time and then they're really horrible the next but your characters didn't change.

The only bad point was when you looked at the camera and when the teacher was at the door. But every time I see that it makes me laugh anyway.

INTERVIEWER: What about the third one then?

It was too short, I got the idea you were trying to create an element of confusion but it kind of gave it away a bit with the title so maybe something a little bit more criptic could have worked better.

I didn't like the teachers acting. She was smiling too much about the fact that theres been a gas leak.

INTERVIEWER: Who is your favourite character?

I'd have to say Sonny, your character. it just made me laugh the way he kept hitting people. It was just one of those things I, personally, found hilarious.

Little things please little minds...[Laughs]

I just really liked your reactions.I liked Keith.I liked the one who kept trying to escape, Pier.

INTERVIEWER: Did you think the acting was good?

I think the acting was good for all the characters.

INTERVIEWER: What did you think of vince as a character?

It felt as if he was just stuck on there to fill screen time because he kind of just sat there and said something every now and then.I think he's one of those characters that doesn't really do or say much but hes a part of it. And makes the whole thing whole.

INTERVIEWER: What makes the micro-series watchable?

Humour, slapstick humour. Nonsense really. Silly stuff.The comedic stuff. The way it was random, but good random.

It was just really funny.