This document summarizes the responses to a questionnaire about preferences for short films. Some key findings were: - The audience mostly dislikes short films, with 60% responding no. - Comedy and drama were the most preferred genres over slice of life. - Endings like surprise, twist, and happy were most popular over angry or sad endings. - 55% liked slice of life films despite it being a less preferred genre. - One storyline was preferred over many storylines by 60% of respondents.

1. QUESTIONNAIRE
ANALYSIS
Ruth Brady

2. Question 1
We asked a higher percentage of males for the
questionnaire. This means the answers are from a male
point of view. Even though, there is a higher percentage
of males we still had a high percentage of females that
had an input into what they would like us to create.
Question 1: Gender
Male
60%
Female
40%

3. Question 2
• Ages of people who answered the questionnaire;
17 10
18 4
21 1
22 1
23 1
30 1
55 1
90 1

4. Question 3:
The people answering the questionnaire mostly don’t like
short films. We need to find a way to encourage people to
like short films. One of the reasons they could dislike short
films is because they don’t really watch them.
Question 3: Do you like short
Yes
40%
no
60%
films?

5. Comments
• Yes: because I do
• Yes: keep you interested
• Yes
• Yes: because it gets to the
storyline quickly
• Yes: simple & easy to follow
• Yes
• Yes: ideas are utilized but don’t
over stay their welcome
• Yes
• No: don’t find them interesting
• No: boring
• No: boring, no point
• No
• No
• No: boring
• No: I like film that are long
• No: because I don’t
• No: I like full length films
• No: life is better
• No
• No

6. Question 4
From the questionnaire, we now know that the audience
prefers and likes comedy. As well as this, they are
interested in drama. Slice of life however is not one of the
preferred genres. So what we need to do is focus on the
conventions of drama.
Question 4: Favourite Genre
Slice of life
4%
Drama
21%
Docudrama
4%
comedy
horror/thiller
19%
alien 30%
adventure
7%
romance
15%

7. Question 6:
The questionnaire asked whether people like our
production name “RAM”. It came with mixed reviews but as
a group we have decided to keep our production name as it
is.
Question 6: Do you like the
name RAM?
like
dislike 50%
50%

8. Comments
• Like: different
• Like
• Like: stands out
• Like: simple
• Like: it has different
meanings
• like
• Like: short/memorable
• Like
• Like: it can have more than
one meaning
• Dislike: sounds sexual
• Dislike: sounds violent
• Dislike
• Dislike: sounds childish
• Dislike: I don’t like
computers
• Dislike: its bad
• Dislike
• Dislike: its bad
• Dislike: sounds like a
computer term
• Dislike: sounds sexual

9. Question 7
The question has a positive outcome for our short film. This
is good for us when editing and planning our short film
because we can do an extra bit of editing without having
the public disagree with us and the choices we make. This
is not about including subtitles.
Question 7: Do you like quotes
on screen?
yes
65%
no
35%

10. Comments
• Yes: I do
• Yes: give a deeper meaning
• Yes: in a silent film
• Yes: add meaning
• Yes
• Yes: starts the story off
• Yes: good editing technique
• Yes: interesting
• Yes: it can end the film on a
high
• Yes: good
• No: rather watch what’s
happening
• No
• No
• No: distracts me
• No: boring
• No: like visual images
• No
• No
• No

11. Question 8
The question has a positive outcome for our short film. This
is good for us when editing and planning our short film
because we can do an extra bit of editing without having the
public disagree with us and the choices we make. We are
not sure at present whether to include a voice over but from
the response of the questionnaire, it has a high possibility of
being included.
Question 8: Do you like voice
yes
55%
no
45%
overs?

12. Comments
• Yes: carry’s the story
• Yes: makes a film
epic/relaxing
• Yes
• Yes: help fill the silence
• Yes: simple
• Yes: make a film easier to
understand
• Yes: if the voice is
appealing
• Yes: takes less time to
explain
• No: prefer characters to
speak
• No: characters are better
• No: not interesting
• No: characters should say
it
• No: its annoying
• No: rather watch what
happens
• No: distracting
• No: story should carry
itself
• No

13. Question 9
This has come out how we expected it to. When doing early
research we found a nice video that included this technique.
This type of editing would not fit into the story we are trying
to make. From the response of the questionnaire, this is one
of the editing techniques we will not use.
Question 9: Do you like photos
as part of editing?
yes
40%
no
60%

14. Question 10
We asked the public what type of ending they would like to
see. There are many different types of ending we could have
for our short film. The most popular endings are surprise,
twist and happy. We should try to incorporate one or more of
these. We should stay away from angry and ad as these
were the lest popular.
Question 10: What type of
ending do you like?
twist
20%
sad
7%
happy
22%
moral
13%
angry
5%
cliff hanger
11%
surprise
22%

15. Question 11
This is a contrast to the answers to question 4 because
slice of life was the lest popular on that question. This
question has proved that people like slice of life films but it
may not be their favourite genre.
Question 11: Do you like slice of
yes
55%
no
45%
life films?

16. Comments
• Yes: more emotion than
other films
• Yes
• Yes: help teach lessons
• Yes: interesting
• Yes: insight in peoples lives
• Yes: its good
• Yes: realistic
• Yes
• Yes
• Yes
• No: prefer non reality
• No
• No: boring
• No:
• No: don’t know what they
are
• No: too many of them
• No: boring
• No: sometimes like them
• No: I don’t like real life

17. Question 13:
The most common time period was present. We did not
specify what years would make the past, present and future.
We believe the audience though the past was 100 years or
more. We believe the past would still be a good idea to be
used but make it as close to being present day as we can, so
more of the audience would enjoy our films.
Question 13: What time period
do you prefer?
past
32%
future
28%
present
40%

18. Question 14
From the questionnaire, we should keep to one storyline, to
keep the audience interested. More of the audience we
asked for our questionnaire like one storyline. We have to
incorporate this into our film.
Question 14: Do you prefer one
or many storylines?
one
60%
many
40%

19. Comments
• One: many can become
confusing
• One: becomes too
complicated
• One: many can become
confusing
• One: easy to follow
• One: prefer it
• One: many can be
confusing
• One: easy to follow
• Many
• Many: like to be confused
• Many: like loads of
characters
• Many
• Many
• Many
• Many: can be disappointing
if done badly
• many
• many

20. Question 16
For the most part, our audience like non-diegetic sound in
films. For our film non-diegetic sound is important to create
mood. But as a lot of the audience do not like it, we will use
it sparingly.
Question 16: Do you like non-diegetic
yes
60%
no
40%
sound in films?

21. Question 17
For the most part, our audience like non-diegetic sound in
dramas. For our film non-diegetic sound is important to
create mood. But as a lot of the audience do not like it, we
will use it sparingly.
Question 17: Do you like non-diegetic
sound in dramas?
yes
55%
no
45%

22. Question 18
For the most part, our audience like editing to be simple.
Although, a lot of people also like it to be more complex.
Generally we would keep it simple but we can use some
complex editing.
Question 18: Do you like simple
editing in dramas?
yes
55%
no
45%