Saturday, 19 September 2015

Anaylsis from questionnaire

We have conducted a question in order to find out about what the public expect to see in horror film trailers and get an general overview of what they like, so we can consider who our target audience should be for our own film.

From the questionnaire 40% of women aged between 16-24 like to watch romance and comedy films. This shows that its a stereotypically view that women would usually watch these types of genre films as romance films are aimed for females due to the convention within it as they would want to watch something that has a relationship based around so that they will help build there expectations upon relationships. Comedy films were favoured equally by 20% of both male and females as the comedy genre is aimed at mixed genders as the representations which allow a mixed audience to be interested in as the conventions would include of two protagonist doing everything together including humour which would entertain the audience and make them watch it further. The age range which this genre fell in our questionnaire were ranging from 12-25, this shows that comedy film can be a family type of film as it something they will be able to enjoy whilst the content can be appropriate for them, and is enjoyable to watch as a family. 15% of men choose action/fantasy as one of there favourite genre of films. This shows that it adhere to the convention in which action films are usually aimed at men as the conventions include of stunts, fights scenes use of weaponry and guns and explosions, the due of CGI,  creating a lot of energetic scenes allowing attract a male audience as these would interest them the most.  For horror genre 20% of both males and females had chosen as there favourite genre of film suggesting that it shows that both genders would want a bit of scare as the storyline would be based on a true story which would make them want to go and watch it, as they would want to know more about the past. Also the age range for the horror genre was between 16-25 as from the questionnaire it showed that they would be most interested in these types of films as the content shown would scare them and shows that the film may have restriction on certain horror film due to the content shown, however parental guidance may be required for these film for children aged 13 or under. From this research it shows us that what audience we should target for our own film trailer as this gives and overview of the different audiences with some of the genre they like the most. We then asked about what there favourite film was, some of the responses included of Love Rosie, Insideous, paranormal activity, Endless love, Jurrassic world, Capitain america, Divergent. These show a range of romance, horror, action/adventure suggesting that these genre of films are the most popular with the public as it dominates other genres or are combined such as Sci-fi and comedy. This allows audience's to be combined as the genres are put together, making  audience's to become more broader. These film are very popular with the audience's and current suggesting that they like to keep up to date with films that come out so advertising and promoting films in a unique way which will attract them into making the film well known, for example the director from similar genre films which the public may have have watched, so this is an aspect to consider when creating our own film trailers. For our film trailer, we will be looked at both Insideous and paranormal activity, so we will look at these trailer to find features which make the film popular, giving us ideas for what to include in our own trailer. The last question we asked was about what they would expect in a horror film trailer and we asked them to give there top three choices, 40% of them said that they would expect a lot of low key lighting suggesting that its a convention as this creates tension for the audience and something unexpected is going to be revealed. Also a haunted house should be shown as this starts to create tension along with music as it connotes an ancient past and allows the audience to know where the location of the film is set. 40% said that they would expect innocent children being possessed, as this allows to show that children won't know what is going on and are being controlled by something which shows and element of being out of control.  5% would want a forest scene, which is usually for a convention but was one of our own ideas, so from this we may consider this when planning our final ideas for our film trailer. By this research it showed us what the public expect in particular trailers and some of the convention allowing us to have some ideas on how to attract our target audience.

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