Analysing film data

The table above displays the statistics of the most popular genres in 2010. It shows that the romance genre is the most popular film genres out of the three genres we have been looking at, giving the largest gross in box office, however, the horror film had a higher percentage of all releases as more cinemas were able to show the film and therefore more people were interested in the drip feeding effect as it gives suspense making more people want to watch the film. The thriller genre is shown as the least popular out of the films released in the cinemas. The thriller genre has the lowest amount of shows in the cinemas and has a very low total box office gross.

The horror gains the more than a thriller through all the aspects as people enjoy the scary experience at the cinemas. They like the adrenaline, and the suspense which makes the drip feed effect of horror films more popular for example with films such as 'Insidious'. The drip feed effect of giving webcam qualities made the trailer appear like it was filming a real event, people enjoy the possibility of something scary being real. Its harder to scare the audiences of today because of the amount of scary films that have been released and the horrific images of history such as the Holocaust which made film producers want to make films scarier to keep the audience in suspense.

We created a questionnaire to give out to our ten peers to discover their feelings on all of the different genres. Our results are below and these results will help us to decide what genre we shall present in our coursework piece.