The document summarizes the results of a post-questionnaire given to 20 members of the public after viewing a student film production titled "Haunted". The results showed that most viewers were male aged 15-17, thought the genre was thriller, and wanted to see the full film. Sound was identified as the most significant element and the film's professionalism was rated highly. Most felt the age rating was suitable and the thriller genre was portrayed well overall. Both males and females were thought to be appealed to equally. Strengths included sound and editing, while weaknesses were that it wasn't scary enough and actors could have been better.

1. Graphs for media
Results from the post-
questionnaire
By Hannah Whittall

2. What gender are you?
Male= 11
What gender are you? Female=9
Male
We asked 20 members of the public what
Female
gender they were to see which were more
interested in horror/thriller films, our results
show males were more interested as 11
males answered compared to 9
females, however there wasn’t a big
difference between both so it shows our
sequence appeals to both genders.

3. How old are you?
How old are 15-17: 17
18+ : 3
you?
15-17
18+
We asked 20 members of the public how old
they are, we had 17 people come back with
there age group varying from 15-17 and 3
people came back with there age group being
18+. This helped us made a decision of what
age group will mainly be watching our
production.

4. What genre do you think the trailer
‘Haunted’ is?
What genre do you think Horror: 3
Thriller: 16
‘Haunted’ is? Action: 1
Horror
Thriller
Action
After watching the production we asked our
members what genre they thought our trailer
was. We had 3 people come back saying it
was Horror, 1 person said it was Action and
16 people said it was Thriller, having the
majority say it was Thriller meant that we
reached our target of getting it to a Thriller.

5. Would you like to see the rest of
the film?
Would you like to see the rest of Yes: 17
No: 3
the film?
Yes
No
After our members watched the production we
asked if they would like to see the rest of the
film, 3 of them replied no because they found
the trailer quite boring whereas 17 of them
said yes as they were intrigued by the trailer
and wanted to see more of the film to see
what happened as it ended in a cliff hanger.

6. What component do you think was
most significant?
What was most significant? Lighting: 7
Sound: 9
Camera
Shots:4
Lighting
Sound
Camera shots
Our members which answered our
questionnaire then decided which
component was most significant, 4 people
said the camera shots were most
significant, 7 said lighting and 9 said sound;
sound played a big role in our production as
the sound made the production scarier and
emphasized the genre more.

7. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the
highest how would you rate the
professionalism of the film?
10 Score 1: 0 Score 6: 5
Score 2: 0 Score 7: 9
9
Score 3: 0 Score 8: 6
8 Score 4: 0 Score 9 : 0
7 Score 5: 0 Score 10: 0
6
5
4
3
Most of our members voted for
2 our professionalism to be either
1 a score 6,7 or 8; there reasons
because of this is because they
0
felt the camera shots and the
ScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreScoreScore quality of the video made it look
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 more professional.

8. Do you think the age category for the
film was suitable?
Do you think the age category was Yes: 19
No: 1
suitable?
Yes
No
Most of our members which we
questioned said that the age category
of the film was suitable for the film yet 1
said no; there reason because of this
was they felt the film wasn’t scary
enough and that someone aged 12
would be able to watch it.

9. How well do you believe my group have
portrayed the thriller genre?
How well do you think we portrayed the Very Well: 14
Average: 5
thriller genre? Barely: 1
Very well
Average
Barely
The majority of the members of which we
questioned said that we portrayed the
thriller genre well whereas 5 said average
and 1 said barely; there reason for this is
because they felt that the production
wasn’t scary enough to reach a thriller.

10. Do you think the film would appeal
more to males or females after
watching it?
Would our film appeal more to males or Males: 10
Females: 10
females?
Males
Females
After questioning our 20 members the
feedback we got was that males and
females would both be appealed to the
film, there reasons because they
thought that there was a balance
between everything which would appeal
females and males.

11. Strengths of the film
10 Camera Shots: 5
Sound: 9
9
Editing: 6
8
7
6
5
4 Most of the members we
questioned gave feedback that
3
the sound was the strength, they
2 felt that without the sound the film
wouldn’t of been that scary. They
1 also voted Editing as one of the
strengths due to the change of
0 the colour of the film and the
Camera Shots Sound Editing
transitions.

12. Weaknesses of the film
14 Actors: 7
Not Scary: 12
12 Confusing: 1
10
8
6
4 Most of the members we
questioned gave feedback that
the production wasn’t scary
2
enough to reach a thriller, they
also voted that the actors weren’t
0 scary enough and didn’t put act
Actors Not scary enough Confusing storyline as well as they could of.