Friday, 16 November 2012

Questionnaire response analysis (need charts to be added)



We have had 27 responses to our questionnaire 14 of them were female responses and 13 were male responses. This gives me an even representation from bother genders and their views on parody and comedy films.

I will start by analyzing the female and male responses for question 2 through 4. 50% of the responses were an age of 15 years old, the other half of the results are the ages 14 17 and 18; 5 results were 14 and both the 17 and 18 categories have 1 response. From the responses of question 3 in the questionnaire there is a common trend shown. This is shown by 95%of the responses say that they have seen more trailers compared to the amount of movies they have seen.

The next question asked is focusing on what aspects make an ideal comedy and parody films. I had 11 people state that they think the most important thing for a comedy and parody film is to be funny. I would agree with those responses because comedy is the main foundation of this genre of movies. In addition three people said of them to be unexpected, this has its advantages it leaves the viewer expecting the unexpected.

The number of male responses is 13, one of them was over 20 years old but the rest were under that. 4 out of 13 people that responded were 14 and the other 8 were 15 years old. From the responses of question 3 and unlike the female responses there seems to be a 50/50 ratio between people who have seen more movies that trailers and the opposite. This could be because males are stereo typically seen playing more games or watching more TV or internet videos.

One of the final questions is reflecting on what aspects encourage you to watch a film. The options were: story line  character and actors, music, the tile or voice overs  People answering the question can tick multiple options.  8 out of 14 female responses said that the story line is what attracts them to a film. 10 put of 13 male responses said that the story line is what attracts them to watch a film. 100% of female responses said that it is the characters and actors that attract them to a film. In opposition to this the male response was significantly less only 7 out of the 13 responses replied with this answer.  I feel that this was a predictable from the female responses as the stereotypical teenage girl is more susceptible to the idea of Hollywood fandom. However in addition, avoiding stereotypes, most big actors are renowned for their good acting and so when they are in a film it is expected it will be good or bad based on the actor. This fact shows that films are very reliant upon who is cast in the film; I have taken this into consideration for our film. There is no way we are going to be able to get a professional actor in our trailer, so I feel it is more important to focus on factors that we can influence and pay less attention to ones we cannot. 5 out of the 14 female responses said that music is an important factor and only 2 out of 13 male responses said that same, the low number of people who agreed with this suggests to me that the music on trailers are less noticeable by people than the picture content of the trailer. This could be because quick editing and flashing images distract the viewer form the sound. In addition I think that the first time someone watches a trailer they do not listen to the music altogether, except if they are purposely listening for it. 

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