Audience - Focus Group Questions Data

Focus Group Questions:

1. Would you watch a film with this premise?

2. Do you like the idea as a whole? What do you like about it?

3. Would you feel disorientated when watching a shaky-cam?

4. Have you seen something like this before? If so, what?

5. Would you continue watching to find out what is happening?

6. Would you need to be enticed in by a big-name actor? Any specific actor?

7. Would you watch a low budget film? Can you name one you liked?

8. Who would you watch this film with? What audiences do you think it's for?

9. What ratio between storytelling and action do you prefer?

10. Do you like dynamic action scenes or stative scenes?

Graphs Showing the Results of the Questionnaires:

Analysing our data shows that the majority of people like our idea and the features we plan to use. Our audience see this film as aimed at 15s and up as a majority, and so we should try to look at the themes used in 15 rated films of this genre to get a better idea of what to add to our film opening.

A majority of the people we asked liked dynamic scenes with lots going on rather than static scenes where characters linger in a single location not doing much in terms of activity. This correlates with our film opening idea as lots of action and running about is involved, and so our character(s) aren't standing around in one place very much.

People we asked seemed to prefer a balanced between the depth of the narrative and storytelling, and actions, with the second highest response was preference of action, which is good because our idea contains lots of action. Hopefully through use of the enigma code we can portray a narrative and keep the interest of an audience who enjoys storytelling. 

Our participants said that they would watch a low budget film, and could name ones they have seen previously. This is good as for our film we only have limited resources in terms of spending and equipment, and it is good to know that the majority of our audience shouldn't mind that the film comes from humble beginnings. Equally, most of our audience said they wouldn't need to be enticed by a famous actor, which is good, as being a low budget film we cannot afford nor do we have the means to contact famous actors to star in our film.

By Jack Nicholls