MAIN Post 2: Choosing your genre

After a bit of online research, I found this pie chart that shows the popularity of film genres of 2008. This information is a bit out of date being from 2008, a lot of aspects may have changed like what different popularities of films. But this does give you a good idea on what types of films are popular.

http://ddunlop.com/2008/12/recapping-2008-most-popular-movie-genre/
Basing on this you can see that comedy and action are the most popular genres of films which results in there being a lot of films that fall into this category. As a group we have decided that we will take a risk and make something new. Are film will be a action thriller as a good amount of people liked this genre. By us making a hybrid of the two will make for an interesting idea.

We asked 10 people the questions below

1.            What is your favourite genre of film? IE: action horror comedy…

Comedy 7

Thriller 2

Documentary 1

Comedy is the most popular genre by a mile, interestingly; this is the same as the 2008 data. Thriller is about the same as the 2008 data and documentary has a very minor increase. I’m sure if we published this questionnaire on a bigger scale; we would see some of the other genres that are included in the 2008 data in our results.

2.            What would you rather watch, a thriller film or a traditional action/adventure film?

Action adventure 7

Thriller 3

Action adventure are sometimes seen as two different genres, like you can see from the 2008 data. We decided to combine them as one genre as they are similar. From the results, we can see action adventure is the most popular result. This is the same as the 2008 data. thriller was the other result popular genre, this was also similar to the 2008 data.

3.            What would you like to see in an opening sequence of a film?

Suspense 2

Action 2

Sex 1

Introduction to Characters 4

Creativity 1

 These results were a bit varied. Most people like and introduction to the characters of the film while others wanted the film to start with a bang and get straight into the action of the film.

4.            When do you go to the cinema and who with?

Once every 6 months 2

Once every 3 months 1

When have money 1

Once a month 3

Fridays and weekends 3

Again, the results are a bit varied but the general answer is once a month on a weekend or a Friday. This makes sense due to there being a lot of big film releases combined with new 3D technology being introduced into a lot of films nowadays.  

5.            What genre would like to see more of?

Thriller 2

Horror 1

Blockbusters 1

Comedy 3

Action 2

Drama 1

The general consensus from this question is that comedy is a big part of films; another common result was action and thriller. This supports the results from questions 1 and 2.

There is a lot we can take away from these results. Firstly, there needs to be some sort of comedy and humour aspect to our film. As we are only making an introduction, this may not be as important as an introduction to the characters which was another common result to have in the introduction to the film. Action, adventure and thrillers were all common results for types of genres that people watch or that people would like to see more of. Using all this information, we have decided that our film will be a thriller, adventure film with an indirect use of comedy, there may not be a lot of comedy within the introduction but if we were to make the whole film, there would be a good amount of humour to the film.