Results….

For my questionnaire I wanted to have the same amount of each age and the same of each gender to try and avoid there being any bias in my results.

Even though the genders are equal there is still a clear winner when it comes to the genre and this did surprise me as stereotypically romance films are favoured by females yet there were still a fair few boys who chose romance as their favourite. Even if it does go against the stereotype it works in my favour.

I asked a few of the guys who said they preferred romance why that was the case…

‘its easy to watch you know, no stress and don’t have to watch it intensely if I was to go to the toilet I could come back and still get what was going on.’

I feel happy after watching

them

For the hot girls ha ha

People mock chick flicks but some actually have really good storylines

They’re relaxing and happy who doesn’t like being relaxed and happy

As expected the majority of the people said that they do enjoy watching romance films and as expected when I did the genre break down of who said yes and who said no the overwhelming majority of the yes answers came from females. My answers are starting to show a pattern in who would be in my preferred target audience….( females.)

The reason I wanted to ask this question was so I could then look at the trailers for these films as well as their posters and take note of what they have done and in doing so I can take some hints and tips when it comes to making my own. I was surprised that the Shakespeare in Love was chosen as the top film by the most amount of people as it is a much older film (came out in 1998) compared to most of the other films chosen and as a fair portion of the participants were born around then its hard to say that they would have seen it advertised, still I shall look in to it.

I asked this question to confirm my own opinion but in doing so it will help me chose my colour pallet when I’m making my poster and magazine front. Pink and red were chosen equally which I expected however the one person who chose mint I didn’t expect but never the less I will take their view into account when creating my project.

Because this is such a broad question it was hard to control so in the end before they gave their answer I asked them if it was one of the trailers I already had been told and that seemed to jog their memories and it turned out to be one of the films id mentioned or they simply could not remember or had not watched one for awhile and if that was the case they were put in the N/A group too.

Personally one of the key aspects of a film trailer is the titles and credits so I wanted to see if the audience were able to remember when the title was placed. I was slightly disappointed with the fact that a larger majority didn’t remember when but I was glad that over half did and could remember whereabouts too. This will help me when I come to placing my title in my trailer.

My final question was asked for the same sort of reason as the previous one, credits are important and if the participants could remember when the film was supposed to come out it meant that the credits left an impression on the viewer. Over half managed to remember (roughly) when the film was due to be out so I will be looking into the placing of the date and how they presented it in their trailers for when I decide to make my own trailer.