The answers for this one were a mix but most of our target audience said they would prefer a fictional storyline. Although a true story can be interesting the audience felt that more out of the ordinary and exciting things in action films will happen if they are not true. The fact that it was a true story meant they thought it could be a block for the amount of creativity they see in a film. This answer helped as decide the fiction of the film and weather it should be based on real events or not. We have chosen ours to be a fiction film due to these results.
Question 2) What age rating do you watch the most?
The majority of people we asked felt like the perfect age rating for an action film was a 15. This was because at a 15 the content would not be too explicit and gory however there would still be a certain element of action that they felt a 12 rated film could not offer. This is the reason that this was chosen as an ideal age for our film. Some people did say they would prefer an 18 but the majority did not. This would help to pick our rating for our film because it meant that a 12 rated film was out of the question really which was fine because they were not in our target market but it left a decision between a 15 and 18. We chose 15 because we thought that having an 18 would remove a large chunk of our target market.
Question 3) Who are your favourite actors that usually feature in the genre action?
This question was quite useful because it would help us to gauge what type of actor would need to star in our film opening. The majority of people said different actors and at first this made the question seem irrelevant however when we looked deeper we found a certain amount of similarities between each of these actors. The majority of people picked an actor who already casts in an existing action film (usually a spy film). The types of people that were mentioned were, Tom Cruise and Daniel Craig. Although they are different people they have similarities like their age, height, weight and type of film they star in. This would help us because it would mean we would need someone of a similar body type to them.
Question 4) What is your favourite genre?
This question was just to find out the proportion of the public that do in fact favour the action genre. Research that had already been undertaken suggested action was in the top three for most watched genres and although this is good, we put this question in so we could find out for ourselves if it is popular with people like us. Our results came out to similar as existing research. Action is one of the most known genres and most people say that and comedy were the two favourites. This helps us to finalise our genre and decide whether we needed to mix two genres or not.
Question 5) What generic conventions do you expect from a typical action movie?
Most people said the obvious things for this question in that they usually think guns are a key thing in an action movie because it displays the intent for action in a film. Other than that the usual props were mentioned and sound. This is important because these are the kinds of things we need to include in our opening or whole film.
Question 6) Do you prefer mainstream or independent film?
This one was an easy decision to make because everyone we asked preferred mainstream films because they have more money people thought they could do more impressive things. They also said they were not really into the niche films which are more focused to a specific audience. This meant because we were doing an action it would be an obvious choice to pick mainstream however we would not have the resources most mainstream companies have.
Question 7) How often do you watch action films?
There was a real variety for this question with a lot of people watching it as much as 3 times a month but others would rarely get time to watch it and so were more like once every couple of months. This question does not really help us in our production of an action films but it gives us an idea of how often people watch films like ours.
Question 8) Do you think sub genres go well in action films?
The answer to this question was mainly yes however some people said that if they were going to watch an action film then that is purely what they want to see as opposed to having elements of comedy in it. The people that said yes also said most sub genres go well with action like adventure, comedy and romance all fit in to action storyline. This helped in the planning of the film because even though we have decided not to incorporate another genre we went through a stage of seeing how well it would fit in our film.
Rhys Williams
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