Final Survey Evaluation

In total we received over 100 responses on or survey, we were pleased with this as it gave us a much larger audience than our initial pilot surveys. This meant we were given a more accurate picture on the general opinions of the public.

 
In this question we asked for the age of the participant; either 15-17 or 18+ we received the following results 70% to 30% respectively. This shows that most of the people currently viewing are work at the age of 15-17. This would suggest that making a film with a age certificate of 15 may be more appropriate to the people who had contributed to our survey.


The second question we asked was "Do you prefer films with a 15 or 18 age certificate and why?". Although we had lots of responses the majority verdict did go towards 15's. This ties into the idea of making a film that are already viewing and contributing towards our work.




The nest question we asked was "Do you pay attention to title sequences?". We found this to be important to us to decide wether it should be something that we spend a lot of time on or simply just exert our efforts elsewhere within the project. We scored a 62% rating on people paying attention on the title sequences. This has showed us that it is something that we will have to closely consider as people will be noticing it.

Following that we asked "Do you prefer title sequences to be fast or slow?". We received a 57% response saying fast, this would imply that making a fast sequence would be more popular however a possible alternative would be to try and work out why slower title sequences aren't so successful and try to amend this. 

The next question we asked was "What is your favourite sub-genre?". This may come in useful to us when deciding ours to see what is popular, however one thing that may be a concern could be that the most popular genres are heavily saturated and there wouldn't be room for us to put a similar film without copying aspects of other similar. The flip side of this is that we could go into a very open style of sub genre however it may not be as successful or well perceived.
On this question we received the most popular to be "supernatural" with 22% and the lowest being "political" only receiving 5%



The sixth question we asked was "What do you expect to see in an opening of a thriller film?". Some of the responses can be seen in the image above, the results we mainly saw were the stereotypical things you'd expect to see in a thriller. We could use these and stick to some of the conventions of thriller however we wouldn't want to over do it and make it cheesy and cliched.


The next question we asked was "What do you think ruins a thriller film?". Knowing this will help us make sure not too over-do any aspects that would potentially put off viewers. Scoring the highest was "gory scenes" with 26% however this was closely followed by "Homophobic/Racial discrimination" with 25%. By seeing that these two can put people off quite a lot we should remember that when making the film.



Our eighth question was "Out of all these popular films, which one do you think has a successful title sequence?". By finding this out we can then go on to look at why it worked so well and then influenced by it's success try to make our own that will have a similar effect. Toping the list was James Bond. We didn't find this surprising when we saw our results as we knew how iconic and loved the opening sequences of James Bond films are. Although we do appreciate it James Bond is so iconic and famous anything similar to it would be instantly though of as something from the James Bind series, for this reason it would be unpractical to use it in our title sequence.



To follow on from question eight we asked "Why do you think it is successful?". With the highest score of 47% was music, however as raised in the previous question if people were referring to James Bond it could be because it is iconic and not because it actually had the best effect. However we still understand that music and the other options are all important and not something we should under estimate 



In Conclusion I believer my group and I have learnt from this questionnaire and will be a valuable tool to look back upon once we start planning and developing our film.