1. Questionnaire Results
How my audience research will
affect my process in to creating
my short film

2. Introduction
I created a survey in order to see what
my target audience would like to see
in a short film and what are the key
elemants in order to make a short film
successful.
From the feedback, I will base the
results and apply them to my short
film.

3. It appears that 20 subjects have participated in my survey,
10 being female, and the other half being male. This is
great since my product is being targetted at both genders.
From these results I can say that my feedback is going to
come back neutral with results from both genders. This
means I will be able to contrstuct a film using the results
which will cater for this audience.

4. Gender Cont..
The amount of females and males that The amount of male and females that
have participated have participated
12
Male, 10 Female, 10
10
Participation
8
6
4 Female Male Male
2 10 10 Female
50% 50%
0
Male Female
Series1 10 10
Gender
The right chart displays the amount of the males and
females whom have participated. The bars are equal,
therefor showing that there were 10 of each. On the right is
a pie chart, visually displaying that 10 of my subjects were
male and the other 10 were female.

5. The results for question two, shows that my
participants were in the age group of 16-19. This is
great for me since my product will be aimed at this
group. This means that the results I will be receiving
will be vey rich, reliable and suitable for my
construction stage.
This also proves that by posting my survey on social
networking sites, I will be tagetting my audience.
Since that is the place they will most likely to be.

6. Cont…
The age group of my participants Age group of the participants
25 16-19
20 0, 0%
20
0, 0%
Parcipants
15
16-19
13-15
10
16-19
5 13-15 20-25 20-25
0 0
0
13-15 16-19 20-25 20, 100%
Age group
So from these charts you can see that 100% if my
participants were in the age group 16-19. This is
excellent for my research, since I am targetting my
product at this group.

7. Question 1 and 2
So the answers from questions one and
two, tell me what kind of answers I will
receiving and from what gender and
age group.
My film will be targetted at the two
groups, both genders and the ages
from 16-23.

8. From these answers it appearts that Comedy is
the most popular answer. Therefore i will be
sticking with my selected genre comedy, as
the reuslts show that this will work best in a
short film.

9. I must make sure that that the editing, narrative
and characters skill in acting are great!

10. The voting on which area appeals in a
short film
So from this chart I can
12 Visually say that for my
10
10 Short film to be success-
sound
Ful I will need to make
8 camerashots Sure the acting will be good.
editing
votes
6
4 4 miss-en-scene
4 acting
2
2 narrative
0 0
0
area

11. %100 of my subjects say that sound is very
important in a short film. So this means I will not
be doing a silent comedy. Sound is very
important in films, especially comedy films as the
main task is to make the audience laugh.

12. My short film must be up to five minutes, but my
target audience believes that a short film should
be up to 7 minutes and plus. It appears that if I
do make a short film this long, I must make sure
it appears to be very entertaining and not boring.

13. My target audience highly believes that the narrative
should focus on two characters rather than one. This
can be because two characters is seemed to be very
popular due to comedy films such as ‘Pineapple
Express’, ‘Dude Where’s My Car’ ect. So I will comply by
these results and ensure that there will be two
characters in my short film.

14. Question 8 asks the audience what they expect to see in
a short film, my subjects
Have basically gave me a list of conventions that I
expect to see in a short film.
I will apply these comments from my subjects and apply
them to my film, for example
‘A movie that has a moral at the end…’

15. More comments…

16. From researching conventions of short films, I had seen that
one popular convention, That you may not see in short films
are that there are many twists, for example…‘The black hole’
– the character gets him self trapped in side the vault (please
refer to my early posts) Or ‘Extra Virgin’ the young girl asked
what virgin meant, as in the Oil…wheras her mum explained
her the proccess of losing your virginity. It appears that fifty
percent of my subjects believe there should be, whereas the
rest do not care. Therefore I will include a twist in my short
film.

17. For my last question I set up a pole to see which of
my ideas would work great for this kind of
audience. It appears that the first option has
appealed to %75 of the subjects. Therefore I will
stick with this narrative.

18. To conclude
• Comedy was most popular genre
• 50% believed that acting appealed to them most
• Sound is important in a short film
• Subjects believes that a short film should be 7+
long
• Two characters in a film
• There should be a twist
• The best narrative for my film –a love hate
relationship between two friends