3. Questionnaire
I constructed a questionnaire then gave it to 20 people to
fill in. I included the synopsis of the film at the top of the
questionnaire so that people had a better understanding
of what the film will be about. I tried to give it to a random
selection of people around sixth form as that age group
is my target, although to try and get a broader view I
gave it to some older people also. I decided on 20 as I
thought this would be an easy number to convert into
percentages which would in turn make the results easier
to process. I asked 10 closed “yes or no” questions and
6 open “explain why...” questions so I could get some
idea of what a possible audience was thinking.
4. Synopsis:
A seemingly ordinary young woman falls
victim to an obsessive and vicious
admirer, things take a sinister turn for the
worse….until their roles are reversed.
5. Age
Age was an
important factor to
my research as from
the beginning I
decided that I would
aim my film at the 16-19
16-24 age group, I 20-30
did have people who 30+
took the
questionnaire state
their gender but I
decided that this
didn’t matter as it
was a pretty even
split.
6. Would like to watch
Out of all the people I asked
about watching my film – only
one person said they would
not like to watch the film but
this did not worry me as the
one person who said that they
would not like to see the film
was in the 30+ age group so Yes
this just furthered my initial No
thoughts that my target age
group should be 16-24
100% of people I asked also
said that they would
recommend this film to a
friend.
7. Preferred genre
By asking which genre
people preferred it was
clearly horror/thriller
which goes along with my
ideas that the age group
of 16-24 year olds prefer
horror or thriller films.
I also chose a selection of
films which goes along
with the genres and once
again the horror/thriller
film was the most popular
8. Changes made to the film
Out of the people that I asked
only one person I asked said
that they would make any
changes to the synopsis. They
said:
“I think it could be a bit too
creepy because people get
stalked all the time”
In response to this I would say that I
understand that it is a very serious
problem but I am not trying to make light
of the situation and I would handle it in
the most sensitive way possible, I don’t
condone stalking, it is purely fictional.
9. Silent film Have seen a silent film
I plan for my film to be silent
but I understand that many
people see silent films as Yes
things of the past and as “old No
and boring” this does not put
me off but I appreciate that
other people may be put off by
this.
Would still go and see my film if it
As you can see less people was silent
have seen silent films which
makes me think that the
people that haven't seen silent
films still have strong
stereotypical views of them. Yes
No
Which lead me to hold a focus
group.
11. Focus group results
In the focus group I explained I think I would definitely like to
in more depth the idea of my see this now that I know its not
film and more importantly why like one of those old silent
films!
I wanted the film to be silent,
by doing this I removed any I get that its not like an old silent
misconceptions towards silent Yeah it sounds film but I still don't like the idea of
films. At the end of the meeting good now I a silent film, I just don't think it
I asked again “would you go understand! would interest me.
and watch this film if it was
silent?” and the results were a
lot more positive, although this
time I only asked 10 people
only one person said no which
I think is a positive
improvement and confirmed to
me that my film should be Yes
silent. No
