Research

I asked 20 people the following questions:
What is your gender?
How old are you?
What is your favourite genre of movie?
From that genre, what is your favourite movie? and why?
How do you feel about the use of flash forward in the opening scene of a movie?
Who's your favourite actor?
Favourite Movie of theirs?
What age certificate do you usually watch?
Do the actors in the movie influence whether you watch them or not?
What's your opinion on thrillers?
Do the first ten minutes of a movie matter to you?
How do you feel about female protagonists?
What genre of movie do you dislike?


Here are the results:

Four people were asked on Facebook, two on Whatsapp and 15 people were asked the questions via a recorded interview.

From the results, I found that the majority of the people I asked enjoyed the effect of the use of flash forward in the opening scene, therefore maybe it would be something we could include in our film opening. They thought it was effective. Other opinions were negative because some people felt it spoiled the film, especially if it is not a brilliantly made film. The problem with flash forward is that people may work out the mystery before they should. Except some people didn't understand what it was. I also found that the opening 10 minutes are crucial to whether or not people watch the film or not as 100% of the people I asked said yes, therefore our film opening, although it is only 2 minutes it still needs to be captivating. The majority of people didn't like Horror as a genre, therefore we know not to do horror and some even said they didn't like it when paired with thrillers, however over half of everyone I asked were positive about thrillers. Though extra comments from people said that sometimes they can be cliche and predictable and some said they keep you on the edge of your seat and are interesting. We have been heading in the direction of thrillers, therefore these results support us and give us the go ahead to continue to look into thrillers.

Although the majority of the people I asked were female and young, in the end the results gathered are varied. It is to be expected that teenage girls like rom coms and chick flicks. The named films I've gathered from everyones favourite genre are going to have to be research into what this particular target audience likes.

I made a mistake and forgot to ask the people who weren't asked via a recorded interview the question 'What age certificate do you normally watch?', But from the people I did ask, they all said from anything up to 15, although this could be because they weren't of the age of the next age certificate, which is 18.