Report: Questionnaire analysis

Ellie and Charlotte’s questionnaire results

We produced a questionnaire about various different aspects of openings of films. From our results, we will find out which genre of film is the most popular and also what people like the most about that specific genre. We will then incorporate this into our film opening for our coursework.

The first question was asking if the audience preferred horrors, thrillers or romantic comedies. Out of ten people, 3 chose horror, 3 chose romantic comedy and 4 chose thrillers. Thriller is the preferred genre out of the three we asked about.

The second question was asking the audience where they think a romantic comedy opening setting should ideally be set. The feedback we had was fancy cities such as Paris or London, in an office, In a restaurant, and on a beach. Some of the audience did not choose a setting because they do not watch or like romantic comedies. The most popular answers were fancy cities and a restaurant with three people each.

Question three asked the audience what they think the age and gender should be for an antagonist in a horror movie. 7 people said the antagonist should be over 30 years old and the other three said the antagonist should be over 60 years old. Male was the popular gender with 8 results, leaving a female antagonist with 2 results. The preferred antagonist is a male over the age of 30.

Our fourth question asked the audience what they think the certificate should be for each of the genres, horror, thriller and romantic comedy. For romantic comedies, 4 people said they should be a 12 and 6 people said they should be a 15. For a thriller film, 8 people said it should be a 15, 1 said a 16 and another said an 18. For the horror genre, 9 people said it should be an 18 and the remaining person said it should be a 15.

Question five asked the audience whether they preferred the opening of the film to include dialogue or if they preferred openings without dialogue. This was an even preference with 5 results for each. People chose without dialogue because they believe it would have more impact on the audience and others said with dialogue so they can understand what is going on more clearly.

For question six, we asked if the audience preferred a film which included a group of antagonists or just one main antagonist. 9 of the people we asked chose one antagonist because they think that only one antagonist should be focused on for impact and tension. The other one person chose a group of antagonists.

Question seven asked the audience what sort of music should be associated with each genre. For a horror, 3 people said the music should be creepy, 2 people said incidental music should be used, and the other 5 people chose rock music, mysterious, loud, orchestral and jumpy music.

For the thriller genre, every person who took part in our questionnaire had different opinions on what the music should be like. The answers we received varied from tense, loud, instrumental, fast paces, sharp, jumpy, and incidental.

The six people thought the music for a romantic comedy should be pop, and the other four chose romantic, the use of guitars, happy and soft music.

Question eight was asking where they think the setting should be for the revealing of a films antagonist. 2 people said it should be set in the woods, 3 people said dark locations, 2 people said somewhere with a life or death situation, and the three remaining people chose a tower, a hide out or an enclosed space.

For our ninth question we asked the audience what the font type should be for each of the genres. 4 people said that the font for a romantic comedy should be bubbly, 2 people said the font comic sans should be used, 2 people said a curly font should be used and the other 2 chose rounded and bright fonts.

For the horror font, 4 people agreed on the font being bold and the other six said metal, creepy, gothic, harsh, sharp and scary.

3 people said the font for a thriller movie should be bold- similar to the horror font choice, and the other 7 people chose from iron, the font century gothic, plain, creepy, structured, mysterious and gothic.

Our final question asked the audience what their favourite aspects of each film genre are.

For horror, the audience said that the scariness, tension, death, blood and action are their favourite horror aspects.

For a romantic comedy their favourite aspects are the relationships shown, the love, the comedy, the kissing, and the good storylines.

For the thriller genre, the favourite aspects were the jumpiness of the films, the entertainment of the films, the suspense, weapons, thrill and the music involved.