Questionnaire Results Anaylsis

As a group we wanted to get a wide range of peoples opinions from different age groups and background to the relation of what films they prefer to others. As we are college students, it was easy to get students views for our questionnaire, but we had to go out of our way to get older and younger peoples answers. As we wanted a wider collection of answers for our questionnaire, we did not mainly base our questionnaire on our idea of making a horror/ supernatural thriller due to the fact younger generations may not of experienced watching this sort of genre due to the age certificates. The first question we asked was "How old are you?". This is a personal questionnaire, but we needed to know this to get a more accurate answer. If we had more time to create the questionnaire again, we would of made tick boxes and age groups to avoid offending anyone. Secondly was "What gender are you". This question is easy enough to answer. To hide identity of the people who answered the questionnaire for us, we did not ask for their names so they do not feel pressured into falsely filling in the questionnaire. This question was sufficient for us. The next question we asked was "What do you look for in a opening sequence". This was the first of our questions relevant for our media coursework. This was an effective question which got the participants of our questionnaire thinking of what they appreciate from their films to keep them gripped and wanting to watch more. Our next question was to find out whether our participants preferred American films to British films. We wanted to know this due to the fact we are making an amateur British film with no budget, whereas American made films with well known actors and directors representing them can afford all the special effects and extras. Many of the teenagers who we asked, surprisingly said they prefer the British, gritty style films to the American high budget films. But overall, we had a shared view on what our participants prefer. Another question we asked was "Do you like being scared".  As a question this caused confusion with the participants at first. The question we asked was due to the fact of us contemplating on a horror/ supernatural thriller. We wanted to know whether our participants enjoyed being scared in their films to an extent. Overall, the questionnaire that we made was a success in getting the results that we wanted to achieve from it. The results gave us key information and we were all pleased with what we achieved with this questionnaire.


By Joel Duxbury