MONIQUE DAY

Film Review Questionnaire analysis

Note

This questionnaire was handed out to a variety of people aged 15+

The results that I will display and analyse are from 15 questionnaires answered by people from these age groups

Age 15-20 21-24 25+5 7 3

1. Do you read film reviews before you watch a film?

yes no0

2

4

6

8

10 This bar chart shows that 9 out of 15 people read film reviews before watching a film while 6 out of 15 do not. This suggests that the majority of people make the effort to learn more about a film before watching it, so that they can make a conscious decision as to whether or not they feel the film is appropriate or appealing to them. Therefore it is important that out film review accurately represents out film, so that people can make the best decision for themselves before viewing a film.

2. Do you read film reviews after you watch a film?

Yes No6.5

7

7.5

8

8.5

These results show that some people decide to read film reviews after they have watched a film rather than before. This could be to get better understanding of the film, learn more about the production or you may just be interested in other peoples opinions. Although these results show that the slight majority of people do not, there is still a great significant amount of people that do. This means that it is important to include different view points throughout the main body of text and information about the film, because people also tend to read film reviews for other reasons. Not just for making a decision about whether to watch a film or not.

3. Does the star rating of the film influence your decision?

Yes No02468

101211/15 people are influenced by the

star rating of a film on a film review while only 4/15 aren’t. This suggests that not only does the main body of text and extra features play a role in the influence of the audience, but that the star rating plays an important role also. This is usually something that stands out on a film review and is something that is easy to spot. Therefore, since the rating is a massive selling point for the audience, it is important that our film gains positive reviews in order to earn the high ratings.

4. How do you access film reviews

Online websites

Social media

Magazines

Newspapers

This pie chart shows that the majority of people access film reviews through the internet, whether it be through websites (e.g. the guardian website) or social media networks (e.g. Twitter or Facebook). With the rapid development of technology, especially the internet, it is very easy to display reviews both through websites and social networks. Social icons are usually placed on the page of the review so that the reader can then share it themselves onto their personal network accounts. This spreads the reviews around making it accessible to a wider range of people. This is probably why the internet has become more popular than print media such as magazines and newspapers, because the internet is being much more convenient and easily accessed when ever the audience wants to.

5. Do you share film reviews onto different other media social networks?

Yes No7 8

With the development of the internet, in particular social media, it has become easier for people to share content to their friends via forwarding, direct messaging, sharing posts etc. This would make the film review accessible to a wider range of people. Therefore it would be good or the review to be accessible online rather than print, since there are now more ways for it to be shared to a variety of people.

6. What do you prefer to see included on a review?

Film poster

Still image

Moving image

Trailer Actor012345

The majority of people would prefer to see a film poster or the trailer on a film review. This could be because they would like to see something they could identify the film with elsewhere. For example after seeing the poster on a film review they could identify that it was the same film being advertised on a build board at the tube station. Whereas seeing a still image from a scene in the film, would make it hard for the audience to match that image to a film poster as they could be completely different. The trailer would also give the audience the opportunity to get a feel for the film themselves as they are reading the review, to help them come to a decision as to whether or not they want to watch the film.

7. On a Scale of 1-5 (1being the lowest) how much does the main body of text influence your decision of

watching a film?

1 2 3 4 50123456

The results show that the main body of text may have an impact on the readers decision however doesn't always have a huge one. Although the majority of people said that it has a 5/5 influence on them, more people said that it had under 3/5 impact on them. This shows that the answer is varied depending on the person, however the main body of text has proven to be important and therefore it is crucial that our film has a fairly good review, in order to draw in our target audience.