After leaving the survey to completed for just over a week, I gained these results. A total of 36 responses! I collected the results and made graphs as part of my research into the two minute opening I'm going to make for my AS Media project.
Most of the people who took my survey were friends who are still in sixth form aswell, therefore the highest percentage was 17 or younger.
A large percentage of my survey clients were women, although this means the results will be slightly biased I am not worried about their accuracy because my film is about dance & ballet so will be slightly more female orientated anyway.
Most of the people who took my survey were under 18, my friends at school and university, who are currently still in education. However I also feel they will be my target audience because it was this age range specifically that chose horror/thriller as their favourite genre.
People seemed to enjoy comedy the most and then horror/thriller as a second choice. However merging these would be very hard because they have completely different objectives as films.
The largest percentage was once every few months which tells us that generally people only go to the cinema to see specific films, not because it's a hobby of theirs. Therefore my film will only apply to a certain target audience and for example, it's unlikely that a rugby player will come and see a film about ballet.
A high percentage of suevey takers preferred psyhcological to physical types of thriller and therefore I wil definitely be making my opening more pyschologically challenging than action packed.
A persons home movie collection is often very important to them and says alot about what kind of person they are and obviously what movies they are into. My target audience (17 or younger) all chose very or moderately often as an answer to this question.
Because of this fact I want to make my film as intense and gripping to watch at home aswell as on a larger screen or in a cinema.
I asked this question to get an idea of films that people enjoyed most and to see if there were any common factors.
The most commonly mentioned film was Paranormal Activity, a film thats successful for it's realistic home view of the action, the whole project is filmed on a home movie or DV Camera which makes the movie seem like it actually happened. It's set in North America, focusing on a newly-wed couple in their early 30's. They are very normal but the wife has slightly paranoid tendencies, for instance she believes in ghosts. During the film she becomes stalked by some sort of ghostly creature, you never actually see the ghost or demon but you see it's mental and physical effects on the characters, which is in some ways more frightening. This is a feature I will be using in my opening, the idea that there is an invisible force, controlling the action.
I asked this question specifically because of the theme of the movie. I do alot of dance myself, including ballet and I find the extreme time and dedication that professional ballet dancers put into their work inspiring but also scary. There is a need that is quite desperate in the most succesful dancers that seperates them from the rest, it mostly ends up that dancing is their life and they do little if anything else.
This idea of dedication to the performance and your art is used in Black Swan to show the Natalie Portman character hallucinating and becoming obsessed with the main role in the ballet.
I'm hoping to encapture a similar theme in my opening and show the dedication needed to be a prima-ballerina. The question above informed me that dark themes and subtlety were the most enjoyable parts of the film.
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