Questionaire results

What we found from the Questionnaire

I found a lot of useful information by carrying out the Questionnaire. We asked a variety of questions that we felt would help us in making our short film, it also gave us an insight to the type of short films and what genre people like to watch.

Surprisingly many students had seen short films outside school, however most students had remembered seeing the Pixar Animations before the showing of a main feature film. This also indicates they would not pay just to see a short film. It is just an added extra. The Majority had also indicated that they had viewed the short films on YouTube.

We asked an open Question as to what genre people would chose to watch. Surreal and Comedy was the most answered. However we are unable to create a comedy as we feel it would be to ‘6th form’ video, and were none of us are comedians it would not be funny. Secondly the cameras are not good at picking up sound therefore the dialogue would not be clear.

A lot of people who had not seen a short film said they would be interested in seeing one, whilst those who had already seen short films said they would happily watch another one.
Fortunately, when I directly asked what genre/sub-genre people would enjoy watching many said psychological/thriller which is the genre we intend to make.

Unfortunately, many said that they would not buy a short film. This is a dilemma because they then don’t see short films as a real film and a waste of money. It would also be a shame to spend all the money producing the film and then not get any of the money back. Furthermore not many of them went to festivals.

The Questionnaire proved to be an effective research method. It enabled me to question a number of people and gather quantitative data that is easily presented and compared. It was practical as it was cost effective and gave a large group of people.

However, the Questionnaire only allowed us to ask mostly closed questions which meant that our data was quantitative and not qualitative. Meaning the participants could not elaborate on their answers. Also those who answer the question may not have understood the question and then answered just to avoid embarrassment.