User Survey

I have created a user survey using 'Survey Monkey' to try and get a grasp and an idea of what type of audience to tailor my short movie to. I asked them specific questions in what they would like to see in the movie, the type of genre they are most interested in as well as their age.


My Survey


Question 1

As seen from the results the majority of the viewers are aged between 16-18 , this is what I expected and happy to work around as it is the same age as me meaning I feel my ideas and views will go along well with the audience. But I also have a minority of  12 and under  and 30+ age groups , this could make it significantly harder to work with but as the majority is in the 16-18 age group I will use that as a base and set my target audience to that age.


Question 2

The survey has shown that over 85% of my viewers are male , this doesn't really affect the way the movie will be made as gender doesn't define what people like . But this could come helpful at certain point as most men don't mind violence or gruesome scenes.




Question 3

This question is asking what genre the audience would like the movie to be, and it is a tie between comedy and action. This works well as I have an action based movie which has a good balance of comedy in as well which I feel will work great together.


Question 4

As seen in the response that the majority of the audience would prefer their to partial violence in the movie. This could be as many people believe that a lot of violence can ruin a movie and the story line is overshadowed by a violence loving director.

Question 5

The response from the audience has shown that the majority would rather us focus on the plot of the movie, instead of having special effects etc . I feel this is mainly due to many movies focus on extra things an d forget how to correctly tell the main plot / story line.


Question 6

As seen by the response most of the audience would prefer a male protagonist, I feel this result may have something to do with the majority audience being male.


Question 7

The audience has preferred the movie to be a linear & multi stranded, this meaning they want they story to be told in chronological time order but for it to strand of into  different branches and story line. This could be as many people find one story line boring , repetitive and predictable.
Question 8

The results show that the plot is very important to the audience this is probably for the same reason I mentioned earlier that was that many people find one story line boring , repetitive and predictable

Overall the results of the audience survey show that the ages we should aim towards is in the range of 16-18, also it show that the audience is heavily male and what kind of genre they would prefer. As well as finding out what they look for in movies or what they find most important in movies.

UNIT 22 P1

Short film Genres

Genres considered when making our short film:

• Sci-Fi
• Plot of chronicles but everyone gets different powers
• they discover a random rock on the moors which gives them special powers
• one can teleport (Aalyan), one can run super fast (Sam) and another has superhuman strength(Ben)
• they are initially confused
• but soon realise that they can use their powers to their advantage
• they end up falling apart and Aalyan is killed by ben by accident.
• Ben turns against Sam and they fight to the end and Ben is killed by Sam.
• Action
• Two men are separated from their group of mates
• they are put in hostile situation and have to survive
• they are fighting off enemy bombardments
• and then have to search for help
• they finally get help and get home after being rescued and are severely injured.
• Horror
• Camping trip based on true story
• 2 friends decide on a spontaneous trip over phones in there rooms
• invite other friend
• get to moors no phone signal
• set camp
• chilled setting between friends
• night hits friends talking flashlight starts flashing and suddenly turns off
• hear footsteps outside of tent
• rocks thrown in
• hand held
• Comedy/Action
• Group of 4 or 5 teens
• They are wannabe gangsters an drug dealer
• Don't understand what it takes to be a dealer and just end up mimicking them
• End up asking real drug dealers is they want drugs
• but they don't actually have any drugs on them
• Realise issue try to escape on bikes
• Try hiding in a random house that turns out to be the dealers house
• Act extremely cocky when confronted
• Somehow one of the group gets caught
• and breaks into a dog fight between the characters in which a random old lady comes in and breaks it up.
• Mystery
• Bettys get bombed
• Get a bad delivery croissants that were tampered with
• and a pain au chocolate blows up inside Bettys
• killing everyone in the café
• and 2 detectives track down the cause
• and try track down who made the bomb
• they find out that they made the bombs
• flashback to them making it
• they completely forgot it as they were ex scientists and somehow manage d to make them forget about their own past.
• Crime
• Hitman is expecting a hit from a client 
• but is not told all the details 
• he ends up being  member of the mob
• the hitman is hunted down by the mob
• the hitman gets into many firefights 
• he end sup in a near impossible situation and is  saved by a lifelong that let him down earlier in the film