Questionaire Results

I handed my questionnaire to 16 male and 16 females, 32 people over all. I wanted to give it out equally to each gender so I would have a fair representation of my audience. Below I will be analyzing the results to certain questions from my questionaire that i think are the most relevant.

Question one-

1.     What is your Age?

<> 16- 25

<>  26- 35

<> 36- 45

<> 46 +

 

Results

This chart shows that the majority of the people who agreed to do a survey on social drama films were of the ages 16-25. Followed by26-35. This shows me that my audience is quite young. I think from these results my target audience should be roughly from 18- 35. I chose this because although the age 16 was quite high, this would limit what explicit content my film could involve.


Question 4-

What social class would you say you are?

<> Working class

<> Middle Class

<> Upper Class

 

Results

 These results showed a very strong signal that i should focus my film towards the middle class. There was no people who considered them selves as working class that agreed to take my questionnaire. And only two people who said they were upper.

Question 5-

In an opening sequence of a film, what do think is most important?

<> Introducing Characters

<> Introducing  Location

 

Results

These results confirmed the conventions that I wrote about earlier. More than 75% of the people i asked said that they would rather character be a bigger part of an opening than location. This helps me a lot, as it means that starting to plan my opening will be a lot easier.

Question 6-

What social aspect would you say us most original for a social drama?

<> Drink and Drugs

<> Gang culture

<> Sexuality

<>Family problems

<> Travelling

 

Results

This shows that the most popular story line was drink and drugs, closely followed by sexuality and traveling. Although drink and drugs was the most popular, I personally thought that this was a theme that most people would go for and could very typical. Therefore traveling and sexuality will be more big themes in m story. I think the reason that gang culture was less popular was because of the area my questionnaires were handed out. And I think that family was less popular because this would be less popular with a younger audience, and most of the people who filled out my questionnaire were  young. 

Question 7-

Which of these films do you like the most?

<>  This is England

<> Quadraphenia

<> Trainspotting

<> Kes

<> Room for Romeo Brass

 

Results

These results show that This is England is the most popular with the public. And the film kes the least popular. I think this has a strong correlation with he age of people who did my questionnaire, due to when the films were released. The film trainspotting- which is my favorite of the list- came second, which i thought was positive I would love to take inspiration from this film.

Question eight-

 

What gender would you prefer the main character to be?

<> Male

<> Female

 

Results

These results show that my audience would prefer the main character to be a male. 20 of the 32 people i questioned said that they would prefer a male character. This is very important due to character being very important as my earlier results said. 

Question nine-

 

What social class do you think is more suitable for the main character of a social drama?

<> Working Class

<>Middle class

<> Upper Class

 

Results

These results show that the most popular choice was working class closly followed by middle class, with only one point between them.

Upper class was very un-popular. I am happy with these results as they match the conventions of social realism characters.