Class Survey

There were many different results for the class survey, it showed that people preferred different surroundings while they were watching there movie, it showed that people got the movies in different ways and that they had different senses of humour within films and what they enjoyed, for example, some people would speak about films which were from the science fiction genre and some would of just been to watch a comedy film for example, somebody had seen "rise of the planet of apes" and someone else had just been to see "The Inbetweeners Movie", from this you can see that not all people have the same interests, this can be for many reasons. Such as, the actors, the special effects, the plot of the film, and the country of origin, the country of origin is important, because the USA generally have a higher budget for films which allows them to get better actors, better special effects and there for a better outcome, however, some people may not enjoy the special effects which was shown, quite a lot of people mentioned British comedy films such as the Inbetweeners and Four Lion, this is because it’s simple, and it’s got the right sense of humour for people in the UK.

In the survey we were asked about the pros and cons of the ways in which we watched the films, such as watching it at a cinema, viewing it on DVD, watching it on general TV or maybe even viewing it on a laptop after downloading it, people put forward many different valid reasons for why each was better or worse, for example, cinema, people would say, you go for the experience its bigger, louder, clearer and better, whereas from a different point of view somebody would say that, it’s not as good as the others due to the fact that you cannot control the actions of the people around you, you may carry on being distracted by somebody who keeps going up and down the isles. DVD is a very good choice after looking at the results because you can watch it numerous times over and over, and when you are at home watching it, you can be on your own and just enjoy the film, however, the argument for this is that there is not always a guaranteed chance of you watching it on your own and that there is space being taken up by the DVD, and if the DVD has a scratch you may not be able to watch it. Download wasn't mentioned a lot due to the fact that it takes time to download and that it may cost you and if your internet is slow then it will take you hours to download it.

Marketing was asked about in the survey, for example we discussed things such as how it will be publicised, here are some of the things which we came up with: Trailers for the film, word of mouth, youtube pop-ups, posters, billboards and on the side of buses, these all get the knowledge of the film out and will make it more desirable to watch if you publicise it to the correct audience.