Questionnaire

    1.       What is your age?

5-15                     16-25                   26-35                      36-35                  46+

    2.       What is your gender?

Male                 Female                 Other

    3.       Favourite genre

Romance        Action          Horror           Sci-fi           Thriller          Comedy          Drama

   4.       Favourite film

    5.       What plot lines do you like?

     6.       What is your favourite character type?


    Some of the questionnaires that were answered:

Evaluation

What I learnt for the questionnaires that I got back was that action was the main genre that everybody liked and enjoyed. However most of the people that I asked liked action to be mixed in with something else, for example comedy or thriller. This shows me that my potential target audience for my film opening will be for mostly for every age, but it will depend on what parental guide because if my film opening is a 15 then the audience younger than 15 will not be able to watch it because it will not be suitable for them. But also it shows that the target audience will like the genre action to be linked in with another genre to make it more entertaining to watch, for example if it was just action it would mostly be car chasing and gun fighting, but if we were to include comedy it would make the film funnier and at some points lighten the mood so it won’t always be dark, by making it funnier it means that more people will enjoy watching the film. Then genre of my film opening is action/thriller which links into what the target audience’s requirements of what genre they would like.

The questionnaire also showed me what type of plot lines they like for a film, from the 12 that I got back 7 of the audience favourite plot line was having a twist at the end, this was over half which showed that this is a popular choice and it’s what my target audience likes the most. This helps to give me an idea of what kind of plot line my potential target audience would like in my film opening.  

For what type of character the audience liked 6 of them said funny and the other 6 said a superhero or a villain. This shows me that the type of person that should be in my film opening is a superhero. I can’t do someone funny at the start because I am not doing a comedy but if we were doing the rest of the film then there will be funny comments put in. Personally I think superhero will be very hard to film because this always takes place in big cities which means that for my group filming it will be very expensive to commute to the city all the time to make sure we get the best shots. However to go with the super hero theme the start could be the super hero’s secret identity which would be much easier to film.