Review on Questionnaires.

Review

In this post i am going to be reviewing the answers i got when 20 people answered my questionnaire. I will be going through each question and analysing what they put and seeing if i can uses these things in my final product the 'Thriller Opening.' Because i asked 20 people to fill in my questionnaire my answers will be more reliable, therefore i can get a better view on what to include in my Thriller Opening.

Question 1: Are you male or female?

For this question i tried to asked equal amounts of girls and boys, this is because they might have different tastes to the other gender. I didn't want to make my results biased so by asking equal amounts of people i was more likely to get a variety of results.

Question 2: How old are you?

Here i wanted to ask different age groups, but i mostly got between the ages of 16 and 18, i think this is a better age group to look at because people who are younger don't watch as many films as people who are older. I did however get one younger person to fill out this questionnaire he was between the age of 12 to 14, i did this to make my results more fair and to show that i wasn't just making my friends answer the questionnaire.

Question 3: What genre of films do you prefer to watch?

For this question i got more of a variety of answers, the most popular answer was 'Comedy' this was because they enjoyed laughing and smiling and they also liked seeing someone making jokes to an audience. The next most popular was 'Action' this was because people like something which they can really enjoy and also feel like they are getting involved. I found out from my results that less people liked 'Horror' and 'Thrillers' then i thought, the reason why i thought most people who like this is because it gives them something where they can feel scared and alone, but seeing that this was the leased popular really did shock me.

Question 4: What do you do in your free time?

Another result that shocked me was that more people like 'Reading' then doing there hobbies, this might be because they like losing themselves in a book and also like being able to escape our world into something that seems better.  The next more popular was 'Anything' and 'Other' i didn't expect this answer because i thought people who be hanging out with friends, or doing something they like doing not anything.

Question 5: If you had to chose what would your favourite film be?

From this answer i got many different films from 'Black Hawk Down' to 'Finding Nemo.' I found when looking at my results that two matched 'Jaws' i thought this was different because everybody likes different things and i didn't expect to find any that matched but i did, which just makes my results more interesting.

Question 6: What genres do you dislike watching?

For this one i found out that most people don't like watching 'Horror' films, this surprised me because i thought most people enjoyed watching these films. From these results i can connote that people don't like to be scared as much as they might say they do. The next one i found people don't like watching are 'Romance' films this might be because it reminds them of an ended relationship or they just don't like the story lines. From my results i found out that most of the people who disliked watching 'Romance' films were boys.

Question 7: What would you ideal opening to a Thriller be?

From this i found out that most people thought a 'Thriller' movie consisted of creepy music, eerie locations and murders happening, but has a twist involved. I thought this questions would be answered this way because everybody puts a haunted house into the 'Thriller/Horror' genres.

Question 8: What film stars do you like watching?

From this i found out that most people enjoyed watching 'Will Smith' this surprised me because i didn't think people would enjoy watching him, but from these results i come to see that most people do like his work.

Question 9: What films have you seen more than once?

Most people for this answer answered 'Hot Fuzz' this is because it is a film made to make people laugh, and also to make you worried about what is happening. I found that people had watched a lot of different films, some i have not heard of before, but it is nice to see people have different styles of films too.

Question 10: Do you pay attention to age related films? If yes what stops you from watching them?

Most of the answers to this question was 'No' the only person who said yes was the person who was age 12 to 14. I wasn't really surprised that all these people don't listen to the age related film guidelines, this is because they like something which might make them feel more grown up. And for 'Horror' films it gives them more of a scared and makes them jump more then a film which was suitable for them.

Question 11: If you answered No, why do you ignore them?

Most people in this question answered by saying 'They looked good' or 'Parents don't mind.' I think that films that are made for the older children do look better, and if you have parents who don't mind then i'm not surprised people watch films like that. But i do think that they should be followed in some ways more than others, this is because they are put there to make sure we don't get to scared and to prevent us from being told something before it happens. 

Questions 12: What are your favourite Thriller plots?  

Most people guessed that a Thriller movie was something that 'Scares you, involves murder, monsters and dieing.' Something else which is included in a Thriller which no one guessed was the 'Confussion' of something or someone. For example, the film Donnie Darko is ment to keep people on there toes, but is also ment to confuse you because it involves time travel..

Conclusion:

Overall, i think that i have found that all the questions were asked fully and were to the best people could answer. Something i could have inproved on was the questions, i could have added more questions and made it easier for people to follow.