Film Questionnaire feedback

I have picked out what I feel is the most significant results from my questionnaire and have put them into labelled charts and graphs.

Age of respondents
From my audience research, it is clear that the main age group to watch horror films is the 15-24 age range. Therefore is split my categories into '12-15', '16-18', '19-21', '22-25', '25-30' and '30+'. From the pie chart below, it is obvious that the majority of my respondents were in the 16-18 range. This is probably because a lot of the people I asked were peers in my year group.

gender of respondents
I thought that the gender of respondents was important because horror films seem to differ in the gender of the audience. Films such as The Texas Chainsaw massacre or Wrong Turn, seem to appeal to largely male audiences, whereas films such as Paranormal Entity or The Amityville Haunting/Amityville Horror appeal to more female audiences.

 

from this column chart, you can see that the majority of the respondents who liked horror films were male.

 

Type of horror film

There are several different sub-genres within the horror genre, each appealing to different audiences for different reasons. I picked out 5 of the main genres, and also put in a 'other' category so that people could pick other sub-genres. I asked that people only pick one category that they would say was their favourite. the reason i did this is because some people like all horror film sub-genres, which would make tha data quite confusing. 














From this data, I found that out of my respondents, the majority of them prefered psychological horror most. psychological horror films play on the audiences emotions and are often based around the paranormal. (paranormal entity, Nightmare on Elm Street). 25% chose slasher horror, which involves a lot of blood, gore and violence (Wrong Turn). Both sub-genres Zombie horror(Dawn of the Dead) and natural horror (Jaws, Piranha)recieved 20% of the vote. No-one picked gothic horror (woman in Black) or chose a different category.
This tells me that my own film is in the right sub-genre of Psychological horror.

Film certificates

This I thought was a relevant category as the majority of my respondents were aged between 16 - 18 years of age, meaning they could legally watch at least 4 different film categories. This question wasn't directly related to horror, but was more of a general question. From my results I found that the majority of the respondents watched 18 rated films, closely followed by 15 for those who couldn't legally watch 18s.