Audience questionnaire analysis

George Watkins

 Audience Questionnaire Analysis

Question 1) what would you commonly associate with a crime type film?

o   I set this question up to try and find out what people commonly expect to feature in a crime type film so that we can include it in our film and see what we could include in our film to meet viewers expectations of our film. Answers I received from this question include; guns, murders, police, criminals and violence.

Question 2) what characters would you expect to see in a crime film?

o   The kind of characters we original picked for our film opening came up a lot when receiving responses for this question, these characters were; police officers which were mentioned in 40% of the responses, gangsters and ordinary members of the public therefore we will keep these characters in mind for our film opening.

Question 3) do you know what kind of characters to find in a thriller film?

o   This question did not get a massive response when we handed out the questionnaire, in fact out of the 10 individuals asked only 3 managed to come up with an answer of which 100% of these people said a family with 1 out of the 3 saying a family and a monster so when thinking about characters we can use throughout our story line a family will be in contention to feature as the main focus of the film and possible a monster however this character is very unlikely to feature.

Question 4) what generic conventions would you expect from a crime film?

o   This question was set up to see what audiences would expect from our genre of film so we can include them in our film to meet audience expectations and these responses consist of; questioning/ investigating, police, guns, mysterious music, crime and murder. So with these responses we can look to include them in our film opening to enhance our genres conventions shown in our opening clip.

Question 5) how often do you watch a crime or thriller film?

o   This question didn’t have specific answers but it had rough timings for example a lot of people responded with; twice a week, twice a month, once a month, etc. however many people could not think of a thriller film when asked so this could mean people were answering with rough estimates but if these responses were accurate it would mean crime & thriller film are frequently viewed by the public.

Questionn6) do you watch more independent or mainstream institute films?

o   This question was placed in this questionnaire to help us with our decision on what kind of institute we want to go for when making our film, mainstream in this question seemed by far the most popular answer of the lot with independent films getting only 10% of the votes so using the results of this question we would probably want to consider mainstream more than independent institutes considering mainstream got 90% of the votes. 

Question 7) can you name a crime film? If yes give example, if not leave blank

o   I had a range of different answers from this questions of which were; police academy, snatch, green street, spider man, the godfather, public enemies and a few others, therefore if we struggle to think of crime elements to add into our film our group could take ideas from these films and make our own versions of them.

Question 8) can you name a thriller film? If yes give example, if not leave blank

o   This answer only had one out of the 10 to partake in this questionnaire response which was the recently released film ‘ no escape’ featuring Owen Wilson, so as we are heading down the thriller genre root our group could watch this film and use ideas within the film to add into our own.

Question 9) who do you go to the cinema with?

o   This question was set up so that when making our film we can consider what group of people we want to aim our film at for example you may go and see a different film with your friends compared to a film you may go and seen with your wife or girlfriend and looking at the responses of this question, friends was the most common answer so we will try and aim our film at friendship groups aged 15+

Question 10) which age certificate would you expect a crime thriller to be?

o   100% of the answers from this question were either 15 or 18 which are the age certificates my group and I were looking at previously to aim our film at and with the justification from this questionnaire we will most likely try and make our film in the 15 -18 bracket.