Our Questionnaire

In order to find out what preferences our target audience had, we decided to hand out a questionnaire to our fellow pupils. The questions included:

1) What is your age?

2) Are you male or female?

3) What is your favourite genre of film?

Horror Comedy Sci-Fi Drama Romantic War Other

4) What particularly about the genre attracts you to it?

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5) How many films do you watch in a month

0 1-3 4-5 6-8 9+

6) Has a film ever attracted you to purchase the merchandise?

Yes No

7) Do you enjoy films that make you think or entertain you?

Think Entertain

Results

1) As the dominant target audience for our questionnaire were our fellow pupils, the average of our interviewees were 16-17 .

2) The gender of our interviewees were predominantly female, as we attend a girls school. However, we were also able to find the views of the male society in our school in order to make our results unbiased.

3) We received a mixed review as to the preferred genre of film from our fellow students. The two results that came up the most were horror and comedy. However, we felt that producing a comedy film would be very difficult as some audiences may not find humour in what we feel would find as funny.

4) The results showed that our interviewees preferred the genre of horror as they enjoyed the sense of suspense and the thrill of being involved in the action as well as relating to the characters and wanting them to survive.

5) The average number of films watched in a month was 4-5 films. This shows us that there is a keen enthusiasm for films even in our younger generation. However, this could be dependant on what films are being broadcasted on TV as some may not have access to films e.g Sky Box Office.

6) The main response from our intevierwees is that they were interested to purchase merchandise depending on the success of the film. Obviously with this result, it will not affect our film but could show the potential that our production to offer merchandising and other forms of synergy e.g Soundtracks

7) From our results, we concluded that our audience preferred to be entertained rather than to think on the whole. Because of this, we included the scenes of suicide because it shocks the audience to a way it entertains them .

Unfortunately, we were only able to find the views of teenagers so this do not cover our whole target audience. However, it did significantly make the film appealing.