My Secondary Research On Popular Genres:
Comedy films have been named as the UK's favourite cinema genre, a poll (from the Telegraph) has found, as the public choose to laugh their way through the tough times.
Simon Peggs Films 'Hot Fuzz' and 'Shaun of the dead' were voted by fans are their favourite comedy film of all times.
Police spoof Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg, was voted by fans are their favourite comedy film of all time.
More than one in five cinema-goers chose to attend a comedy flick, the poll of more than 5,000 UK cinema-goers found.
Action/adventure films were next with 15 per cent of the vote while romantic "romcom" comedies secured 12 per cent in the survey for the cinema chain Odeon.
Nearly a quarter of those who took part in the poll overall (24 per cent) named police spoof Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg, as their favourite comedy film of all time.
The survey also found regional variations, with the action adventure genre particularly popular in Oxford, Bollywood in Brighton, comedy in Cardiff, gangster in Norwich, sci-fi in Coventry, horror in Wolverhampton, musical in Worcester and rom com in York.
Also someone has anticipated the next to 20 films for the end of this year here is the list as follows (furthermore more information on this list at this link http://www.rantingdragon.com/twenty-anticipated-genre-films-in-2012/)
| 1. |  | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
| 2. |  | The Dark Knight Rises |
| 3. |  | The Avengers |
| 4. |  |
John Carter
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| 5. |  | The Hunger Games |
Those are the top five Films the rest are on the website.
This research helped my understand that everyone wants a good entertaining film no matter what the genre as long as it is entertaining.
My Questionnaire and Analysed Results:
This is my questionnaire for my main task, it is mainly focused on the different genres of films and what they prefer such as comedy, thriller, action etc.. these results will have some influence on what genre my group pick for the opening sequence but it will not all rely on this questionnaire. (Some questions could not be turned into pie charts but i will still talk about them) I have asked 10 friends out side of class and 5 family member, boys and girls and they were also all between the age of 15 and 19 so this is an un-biased questionnaire.
Question 1:
In Question one i asked 'What’s your favourite genre of film?' this entitles us to find out the favourite genres of people aged 15 to 19 (our target audience) comedy is clearly favoured within this age group, the second favourite is Rom-coms which at 27% run quite close behind to comedy's 30% this shows us that people like to watch films just to have a good laugh and relax not go and see a thriller (which got 0%) and obviously don't like the thrill and adrenaline.
Question 2:
In Question two I asked 'What type of film do you watch more of?' I asked this question because i know even if you have a favourite genre you don't always get to watch it because of the times of film tat come out. Although I think this comedy is clearly the most watched with 57% of people who i asked to do the questionnaire favoured and watched more of. Horror is the next most watched genre at 15% followed by a mix of Rom-coms, Sci-fi and action all at 7%.
Question 3:
in Question three of my questionnaire i asked 'Why?' this why was related to the previous question of why they go and watch comedy or horror most of the answers related to 'Because it's funny' or 'I like the thrill' this showed us that they just liked it for the pure comedy or the pure Thriller/Horror aspect of the films not to do with the plot or characters.
Question 4:
For Question four I asked 'What do you expect to see in an opening sequence?' most people made comments along the lines of 'An interesting fell' and 'A song that suits the film and genre' these comments help me to decide what to put in to my opening sequence and how to construct and structure it.
Question 5:
In Question five I asked 'When do you go to the cinema?' I asked this to find out how reliable their comments are and whether they have much experience of seeing opening sequence.
Question 6:
For Question six I asked 'If you go to the cinema who do you go with?' I asked this question because I wanted to find out the sort of people that I would be doing this opening sequence for.
This has helped me realise that people watch a lot of the mainstream films and the films that they produce and don't go out of their way to watch something they like so it wouldn't matter what genre my opening sequence is because there will always be people that watch it and will like it not depending on the genre but depending on the quality and entertainment factor of the opening sequence.
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