This document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to 30 people about their expectations for a drama film genre. Tension between characters was seen as the most important aspect by 50% of respondents. Slow paced edits were next at 33%, followed by suspense at 17%. When asked about preferred endings, 67% preferred a cliff hanger to leave the audience wanting more, while 30% preferred an unhappy ending. Finally, 67% disagreed that including love/relationships makes drama films more interesting, while 30% agreed it increases the hurt to main characters.

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Genre Expectations
Questionnaire
By Selina Simmonds

2. + Questionnaire
This is going to be a PowerPoint on
the expectations that you would get
from the genre drama seen as the
film that I will be make Is going to be
a drama film. I have asked 30 people
from a sample of my target audience
to see what they expect from a drama
film and meet that expectations.
There will be bar chart results and
quotes from the target audience
within this sample.

3. + From this you can see that most of the people within the questionnaire says that
tension between characters is the important aspect of a drama film as it is taken up
50% of the votes by how “ it shows the relationship between some characters and
make it easy to understand the meaning (reading between the line)”. slow paces edits
have taken the next highest votes with 33% saying that this important as well as it
“drags our the story line making the audience more interested in the film”. And the last
was suspense with 17%. As it is “ mainly common is scary films and it is the best way
to put in jump scares. But it is not really something you would film in many drama
films”.
Question one
In your opinion, what do you think is an important aspect of
a drama film?
Suspense tension between characters slow paced edits
17%
50%
33%
Question 1
suspence
tension
slow paced

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Question 2
What would you rather see in a drama film?
happy ending cliff hanger un-happy ending
3%
67%
30%
question 2
yes
no
a little
as you can see my target audience would like to see a cliff hanger as 67% of the people I
asked thought was the better option as it “ leave the audience wanting more”. 23% of the
people I asked said that they would rather see an un-happy ending, leaving the protagonist
in turmoil “to make the film more un-expected rather than a happy ending”. Then the other
10% said that they would like a happy ending as it “sticks to how all stories are told as it
gives comfort to the audience knowing that everything is okay”. From the statistics it
seemed that I would use a cliff hanger.

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Question 3
“having relationships A.K.A love within drama films make it
interesting” do you agree with this statement?
YES A LITTLE NO
3%
67%
30%
Question 3
yes
no
a little
67% disagreed with this statement saying “ it will take away the emotion you are trying to
give the audience”. 30% agreed with the statement saying that “adding love makes the
main character’s hurt more

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