questionnaire and findings

Questionnaire for a film trailer


1.) What is your favourite genre of film? ( please state why?)

For this question the majority of participants chose horror film. The reason horror film was chosen was because they scare people and leave the audience with suspense. (75%)
10% of students chose comedy genre and the other 15% chose love films.



2.) Do you prefer films that follow the basic narrative structure?
( beginning, disruption, quest, resolution, end)

most participants do like the plot to follow a basic narrative structure but 40% of participants said that films are good which start of with a flashback.


3.) How often do you watch films?

the mean of this was atleast 1 film a week.


4.) Do you think that horror films are better with a female protagonist and a male antagonist or vice versa?

all participants thought that female protagonists and a male antagonist worked better because males make better killers within a horror genre and that females are better at over exaggerating and looking after their children or friends that are also involved. in th elove genre particpants thought the same but the man always chases the woman so it works better for the man to be the antagonist and the female to be the protagonist.

5.) My idea is to create a film about a stalker, what age group do you think this would be?

18% of participants thought that it would be a 12.
70% of participants thought it would be a 18.
12% of particiapnts thought it would be a 15.


6.) how often do you visit the cinema?

Most participants visit the cinema on wednesday because of the 'Orange wednesday' promotion and the other 33% visited cinema once a month or just watched pirate copies.


7.) Do you think that film trailers make you want to watch the film at cinema or watch it in general? If so why?

40% of participants thought that film trailers do make them want to go see the film at cinema because they don't see the whole picture however 60% thought that most film trailers release now are unoriginal and boring.