Questionnaire of preferred genres

We asked a group of thirty people, over 11, what their favourite film genre was. These are our results:


- Fantasy - 2
- Chick Flick - 3
- Science fiction - 4
- Comedy - 6
- Action - 6
- Horror - 9



Analysis of results

- Luckily for us, Fantasy was the least popular genre. I feel that this would be the hardest genre to create with the resources we have, mainly because Fantasy films usually use a lot of advanced Special Effects.

- The Chick Flick genre was disappointingly low. I would have liked to try this genre. I feel it would be rather easy to create a Chick Flick style film opening, mainly due to our resources. The majority of our time together as a group will be in school, this is where a lot of Chick Flick-type films are based, for example Mean Girls. Also, as our peers are of the ‘High School’ age, it would be a easy to find actors suitable for the film opening.

- Science Fiction was surprisingly high, but again, hard to produce effectively.

- Comedy was one of the highest results. It’s a genre that I would be very interested in creating as it’s my favourite genre. However, it would require a great deal of attention to script and acting to make it successful and other genres allow more concentration on the technical side of film-making.

- Another high-scorer was Action. The Action genre would be extremely hard to create due to the need for fast cars, stunts and guns etc. This was not a genre we had considered looking into at all.

- The majority chose Horror. This was very pleasing as this was the genre we had initially discussed ideas for. We had already had a basic idea for a plot line and felt with our resources would be the easiest to create effectively. Horror is our chosen genre and I am glad our survey reflected public interest in this genre.