Questionnaire

 A while ago I carried out a questionnaire through facebook messaging and other social networking sites on the subject of film and genre to ten people. I asked people who was within the suitable age group of around 15-30 (our film's target audience) to get a correct perspective. I asked 15 questions in regards to genre and films etc in order to create a successful film opening. I made sure to ask a mix of female and male to keep a fair balance of gender.

  These are the questions I asked:

1. Male/Female?
2. Age?
3. Favourite movie genre?
4. How often do you watch films?
5. Least favourite movie genre?
6. Do the actors in a film influence you to watch a film?
7. Which age certificate do you mostly watch?
8. Name three elements you think a film must ideally contain:
9. Where do you tend to watch most films?
10. Does the advertisement of a film matter before you watch it?
11. How important is the first 2 minutes of a film to you?
12. Who do you watch films with?
13. What is your favourite film?
14. Why is it your favourite film?
15. If you could go behind the scenes of any film, which would it be?

Here are the least favourite Genre's I found most common, mainly being sci-fi, which also balances out the reflection of the Favoured genres.

Here's the favourite Genre's. As shown, Comedy and horror were the most favoured and Sci Fi rarely was used as a favourite.

Here I've used two pie charts to reflect the Least and Most favoured genre's throughout the ten people I questioned. The majority were split between horror and comedy for their most favourite but also were split between action and Sci-Fi for their least favourite between the genders. The majority of males seemed to choose Horror or Action as their most favourite. 

 The majority said they watched a film around 1-3 times a week of which was their favourite Genre with mainly an age restriction of 15. All of them agreed that the opening to a film is the most important part as "otherwise I will fall asleep" and "It's what attracts me to carry on watching".

 A huge mixture of responses on the advertising side of things. Most of the younger people I interviewed agreed it is important but doesn't change their opinion on the film, although some said "It doesn't make a difference, although it gives me a bit of a background information to the plot".

  It seemed as though the majority of the interviewees found the first 2 minutes very important to their overall opinion of the film. Also a good looking man (Robert Pattinson came up twice) enhances their choice of movie.

The favourite films were a big bundle of different ones; The Hole, Saw 3, Superbad, The Hangover, Mean Girls, Fast and Furious 2, Green Street, Lord of the Rings, The witches and Kickass.

After reviewing the answers and pie charts to my questionnaire, I think it's safe to say we chose a genre that was based around the genre that people generally like to see. As our film would be rated a 15, the right aged audience would be able to see our film.