Audience Questionnaire Results

Audience Questionnaire Analysis

 Question 1) What is your favourite genre? (If other, what genre?)

• Horror
• Thriller
• Comedy
• Romance
• Action
• Other

By asking this question, will firstly show to us if this audience question will be allocated to the people that we ask. We got a mixture of results but there was no "other". In addition to this, we could also tell what type of person they were as to what genre they liked.

Question 2) What is your favourite 3 films in that genre?

We got a mixture of results from this question, it mainly was dependent on what type of genre that they preferred. By asking this question would show to us what other Drama films we would be in competition with and whether that particular Drama film fitted into the same sub-genre of ours.

Question 3) What sort of features do you expect a film opening of you chosen genre to have?

This was the same result as question 2, it was mainly dependent on what genre they preferred as to what features our audience thought should be included in their chosen genre.

Question 4) What age certificate do you usually expect a film of your chosen genre to have?

• U
• PG
• 12A
• 12
• 15
• 18
• X-Rated

This question was placed in this questionnaire to help us to see what age certificate is preferred within a wider audience. The main results that we got were that people generally preferred the 15 rating of a film of their chosen genre.

Question 5) How old are the characters usually seen in your preferred genre of film?

• Under 12
• 12-17
• 18-25
• 26-39
• 40+

I set this question in place so that we could have an rough idea as to how old the characters need to be/play in our film for our audience to like them. Depending on their chosen genre, will then depend on how old some of the characters need to be.

Question 6) What generic conventions would you usually see within a drama film?

I decided to start including our chosen genre into the questions so that we could get a better analysis of what the audience thought of our chosen genre 'drama'. The main result that we got from this question was - "that the audience can relate to the character in some way, a form of realism and normally a happier ending". Going from these results, our film will hopefully hold that the audience can relate to a character within our film and we are including a form of realism.

Question 7) Can you name a Drama film that includes the conventions that you have listed?

By asking this question, will then see what films are already out there with some of the generic conventions we will want to include within our own film. The most films that were named were - Creed, The Revenant and Everest. By having these films listed, means that we can look into the film in more detail and see what type of people tend to view these specific type of drama films.

Question 8) Have you seen more independent drama films or mainstream drama films?

This question will help us to choose whether we will be a mainstream or independent film. It was a 50/50 result for this question, as half said mainstream and the other half said independent.

Question 9) Who do you normally watch a drama film with?

This question will help us to understand who our audience are watching films with, in addition to this it will also help us to see whether our film is suitable towards a family audience and also can incorporate on what age certificate we should put our film at. The results from this question was mainly family and friends. So depending on the ages of their family and friends will then mean whether they can watch the film or not.

Question 10) Can you name a drama film that has not used the normal conventions properly? (If yes, has the film still been good?)

The reason we asked this question, is because a drama film has a lot of sub-genres and not all of the sub-genres have used the normal conventions as they should. From this question, we got the result of the only film being Titanic. Throughout the whole film of Titanic, it does follow the normal conventions properly - until the end. The end of the film is when the conventions are forgotten about and our audience answered that the film has still been good.

Question 11) Does the film opening of a film determine whether you want to continue watching it or not?

By asking this question, shows to us whether specific people only continue to watch films depending on how good the film openings are. The result that we got from our audience was yes it does depend on how good the film opening is.

By asking an audience questionnaire, means that we can see specifically what our audience would like to see not only in normal film openings but specifically in drama openings of films.

Lilly.