Questionnaire results

Sophie Hodgkinson

I have produced a questionnaire to find out what my target audience would prefer at the beginning of a film, to make sure my target audience are interested. Ten people filled out my questionnaire, the group of people I asked was all in the age bracket of 16-18 as that is my main audience. Im going to base my results on what my film is going to be like

What type of film would you prefer to watch?

thriller

chick flick

Action

Documentary

By doing this question on my questionnaire I have come to a decision that my target audience mainly prefer to watch a thriller, I believe that by doing a thriller I will gain the audience attention all through my 2 minutes of filming. Action is closely second so I am also going to try to add a few action shots to ensure not just only half of my audience are entertained

How would you prefer a film to start?

Straight to thepoint of the film

Gradually

Start with nothingto do with theactually point ofthe film

My age group that I am aiming my film at seem to prefer to get to know what the film is about straight away, as I have only 2 minutes to start my film for my AS coursework, I think that it would be a good idea to go straight to the point of the film to ensure the audience have a brief understanding of what my film is about.

what year would you prefer the film to be set in?

Modern

Olden days

Looking at the results of this question not many people seem to like olden day film and prefer more up to date ones. This has made me come to a decision that I wont include any olden day clips and just include modern scene, This is to make sure the audience what the full course of my start of the film, as if they see bv the first shot that it is set in olden days I believe many will not want to watch more

Would you prefer backing music, at the start of the film?

Yes

No

I always wanted to add backing music to my start of my film as I believed that it made the film more tense but I wasn’t sure whether my target audience would like this idea. But know that I know that over 75% would prefer this, I am defiantly going to add music over my scenes to again ensure the attention I want.

How much dialogue would like at the beginning of the film?

A lot

Hardly any

I believe my results are like this as my age group I chose get bored very easy and rather impatient, so I believe to prevent these feelings from my audience I will have quite a lot of dialogue, and also this helps and earlier result I had to make sure the start of my film goes straight to the point, as it will be easy to understand with speaking

By having these results it has made some major decision that I couldn’t decide what my audience would prefer, I now know what my audience like and believe if I use these results in my film I wont loose the audience attention during my 2 minutes.