List Of Questions - General Questionnaire

1) Are You Male or Female?

Male
Female

2) What Is Your Age? …………

3) Where Do You Hear About Films? (eg; Trailers, Posters, Word-of-mouth)

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4) Which Genre Do You Prefer to Watch? (Choose Three)

Thriller, Romance, Comedy, Rom-Com, Fantasy, Action, Historical, Sci-fi, Drama, Family, Horror, Crime, Mystery, Musical, War/Political,
Other (please state) ……………

5) Where Do You Watch Films Most?

Cinema
TV
Internet

Why?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(If You Chose ‘Cinema’ Please Answer Question 6, If Not Please Skip)

6) Where Do You Go To Watch Films?

ODEON
Vue
Cinema City
Hollywood Screen Cinema

Questionnaire Results For Media Audiences - General

I asked the question "Are you male or female" because in my proposal I wanted to know if males and females have different preferences of genres and how they found out about films. I gave 10 questionnaires out to males and 10 out to females so I would have more balanced results.



I asked "How do you hear about films" and tallied the results. I found that most of the people who answered the questionnaire found out about films through trailers, but they also found out through other means such as word of mouth and posters. I noticed that more males found out about films through word of mouth than females and more females found out about films through posters than males. It seems that males who took my questionnaire tell each other about films they've seen more than the females, this could be because they're are currently more male targetted films screening at Norwich cinemas such as '2012' and 'Jennifers Body'.



I found with this question about genres that the 10 females who took the questionniare liked Thriller and Horror more than the 10 males that took the questionnaire, and that the males liked Comedy and Action more than the females. Comedy was a choice for most of the questionnaire takers. I think that Action films was chosen more by males because Action films are mostly targetted at males, and I think that females liked Thrillers and Horrors more because of the atmosphere that they create - "It's the thrill of getting freaked out which makes you want to watch Horror films once in a while" (Female Questionnaire Taker)



Most of the males and females that took the questionnaire prefered to watch films at the cinema or on TV rather than the internet. I asked why they chose the answers they did (many of the takers choose more than one) to get qualitative data. These are the results I got:

Males:

Cinema -
"I like the big screen, it's a quiet romantic place"
"Best quality"
"Better experience" x2
"To be with friends"

TV -
"It can be with friends and family and it has breaks"
"Cheaper" x3
"Convienience"

Internet -
"Can't be bothered to leave the house"

The males had varied responses to why they liked the cinema/TV/internet. Most of the males that chose the TV chose it because of money, while the males that chose the cinema chose it because of experience/quailty and social reasons.

Females:

Cinema -
"To be with friends" x4
"Experience" x2

TV -
"Cheaper" x3
"Easier" x3

Internet -
"Quicker" x2
"Cheaper"

The female takers had less varied responses than the males, the ones that chose TV and Internet said it was easy and cheap and the ones that chose the cinema said it was for the experience and to be with friends.



Most male and female takers liked viewing films at the Vue, I think this is because it is the easiest to get to as it is in the middle of the city. Vue has more screens and screenings for newly released films so it is more prefered by both male and female teenagers.

Proposal For Media Audiences - General

I will write a questionnaire about how people hear about films, which genres they watch and where they go to watch them. I want to know if males aged 16-18 watch different types of films and go to different places compared to females of the same age.

I will ask mostly multiple answer questions to get some quantitative data but I will also ask some open ended questions for qualitative data.

Question Example:

Where Do You Watch Films Most?

Cinema
TV
Internet

Why?
...........................................

This gives both quantitative and qualitative data.

Notes on Film Openings

LA Confidential



Conventional film noir themes:
- Voiceover
- Dark room, lit with lamps
- Iconic props, guns, cigerettes
- sets a timeframe of the 80s/90s with the old fashioned type writers and attitude to family life.

Non-conventional film noir themes:
- Mood is happy
- Bright sunshine, natural light
- Jazzy music
- Colour
- Wide open spaces
- Public places

Music starts before picture. Voiceover sets a scene of LA being wonderful and amazing, but he suddenly changes and talks about the dark side of LA which contrasts his happy demenour and the jazzy music.

Main characters introduced nut not much is said about his personality. Audience cant relate to him yet. Talks about the image of LA and how wrong it is. The voiceover talks about criminals quite lightly, saying a bodyguard is a "dapper gent" which puts a upbeat spin on a dark subject.

Notes on Film Openings

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels



The main character is portrayed as a wheeler-dealer in the opening of the movie, he can be related to Del boy from 'Only Fools and Horses' which gives the audience an expectation of what may happen in the film.

Conventional film noir features:
- Themes of crime
- Stairways
- Voiceover

Non-conventional film noir features:
- Public places
- Natural daylight
- Personality of character, light-hearted, funny,

British gangster films represent criminality in terms of lovable rogues and cheeky guys, its fails to engages with themes of morality and humanity like in film noir films.

Notes on Film Openings

Layer Cake




- Camera merges between scenes, long slow panning shots, slow motion.
- British markers (cobble stones, zebra crossing)
- Modern
- Theme, crime and drug industry,
- Main character is smartly dressed but not enough to stand out in a crowd.
- Camera constantly moving in the opening scenes which creates a smoothness in the scenes.
- Camera shots used to try and include the audience,
- Voiceover makes the audience feel close to the main character, film noir convention.
- Lighting used to draw audience attention to specific people and objects such as the table which two of the characters are working on.
- Lighting with the main character is warm, lighting on drugs is detatched and clinical.

The main character has a sense of humour and has all the qualities of a good person, except he isn't. These qualities make his relatable to the audience and the danger aspect of his job makes him seem exciting and adventurous.

Most of the lighting in the opening is natural in daylight which is not a convention of film noir as film noir is generally the opposite.

Notes on Film Openings

Sin City




Black and white like old film noir films but the womans dress, lips and eyes are in colour and draw audience's attention.

Iconic props:
- Cigerettes
- Lighter
- Gun

Balcony is in the dark, party in the background makes two characters look isolated, when the camera pulls up away from the scene the characters look even more lonely and insignificant against the huge cityscape.

Film Noir conventions:

- High contrast lighting, (backlighting from party inside)
- Man dressed in black suit with slicked back hair, Women dressed in a red halter neck dress which gives a look of femme-fatale, dialogue makes her look femme-fatale.
- Voiceover,
- Use of night and rain

When the voiceover is speaking after the woman was shot there was no music or soundtrack, just the sounds of the rain which means that audience focuses on what the man is saying.