1. Are you male or female?
Although we tried to distribute our questionnaires out evenly between male and female, we quickly realised that a slightly larger amount of males were taking interest more in the questionnaire.
2. What age range are you?
For this, again we tried to be unbiased as possible. Although we are at college, and know a lot of people here; over half of the people that did the questionnaires were our age.
3. What film certificate do you typically watch (All that's appropriate)
It seemed that our audience watched allot of films, which are targeted at the mature teenage end. Although allot of the people that carried out the questionnaires were only 17, a vast majority liked to watch films that were 18+, but the largest proportion was the 12 & 15 certificates.
4. Have you ever seen films such as Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels or Reservoir Dogs, Shifty, Lucky Number Sleven? (etcetcetc)
It’s odd, but allot of people at College have similar styles (of music, clothing, hair… etc), and it seems that movies are not much different. Allot of people have seen films which we got ideas from. It was surprising that well over half of the people watch allot of these films regularly
5. If no, why not?
Basically, this was qualitative data, so made it hard to analyse (This was intentional, we wanted to hear about why they didn’t watch the films). Generally, we found that people simply just hadn’t got around to it. The vast majority said that they had heard good reviews from friends & family, but haven’t watched them yet.
6. From your experience, on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this genre of film overall?
This was surprising to us. Only ¼ of the people that carried out the questionnaire, thought that the genre of film (similar to the ones listed above), were less than a 5 (or average). This showed that ¾ of all people would potentially like our genre of film
7. Would you watch a film, based on this pitch "Long-separated friends & colleagues re-collaborate to pull-off the largest high-stake operation they've ever undertaken, for a potential jackpot of £250,000"
We spent a lot of time on coming up with this 20-word pitch. We feel that it has been reflected by our figures. Only a couple of people (More than likely the people that didn’t particularly like the genre of film), said they didn’t like it and wouldn’t watch it.
8. What other genre of films do you enjoy watching? (Tick all that apply)
This looks a little confusing at first. What we found, is that the genres with the most votes are Action, Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Thriller & War). Which is good. Our film (and films in our genre) also share similar aspects of those genres, such as Action, Comedy & suspense.
9. Where would you usually watch these types of films?
This was very surprising. We imagined that much more people would watch movies illegally on the Internet, but only a ¼ of them actually watch them on the Internet (legally or illegally, we don’t know). This may show, that if we get our film in production and finished, around a ¼ of the people that took the survey may (still) watch it on the Internet. (Of course, for a small budget film, TV & cinema is out of the question)
10. Do you have any favourite directors/actor/actresses?
This was again qualitative data and so couldn’t be put into a graph. Due to allot of people liking the films that we posted above, the results were quite predictable. There were actors such as Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Mike Reid, Vinnie Jones, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher (And anomalies ones... Simon Pegg, Nicholas Cage..). Also, favourite directors included Paul McGuigan, Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie… and then again, anomalies & obvious ones such as such as J. J. Abraham, Alfred Hitchcock…)
11. In your opinion, what makes a good film?
This was the final question with qualitative data. People in general said they like something with an intriguing storyline, likable characters, originality and actors that were not always superstars.
12. Does strong language/violence/drugs offend you?
This was great. It showed that around 5/6s of people didn’t mind strong language, violence or drugs… which is good as it’s likely that our film would include all of these if it was made (As it is typical of that genre of film)
