Questionnaire summary
The majority of people that answered our questionnaire were aged between 18-21. This is mostly due to the fact we handed most of our questionnaires out around college. More females answered our questionnaire with 60 percent being female. In total we handed out 35 questionnaires.
What was good for us was the fact that horror was the most preferred film on the questionnaire. As our film is going to be a horror that is good with helping us decide what audiences want from a horror film. People said what they enjoy most about horrors is the scary and horrific scenes, also the quick camera shots that make the audience jump. This was surprising finding that horror was the favourite film people chose in our questionnaire, this is because 60 percent of the people who did the questionnaire were female so we thought romantic comedy would be the most popular.
We asked people if they preferred watching horror films at home or in the cinema and the findings were very close with only a few more people saying cinema. The characters they expected to see were innocent victims, big, scary masked men and zombies etc.
Friday 18 December 2009
Certificate 18 films
Certificates are issued by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). In their opinion the film, video or game should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 years old. The 18 certificate was only created in 1982. For a film to be classified as an 18 in will contain some of the following; hard drug use, supernatural horror, explicit sex, sadistic violence and sexual violence.
Until recently sexual violence and sadistic violence were not even issued a certificate and were seen as not acceptable. According to the BBFC website no drugs promotion is tolerated, only films showing effects of drug misuse are given a classification. The use of bad language in films depends on the language being used; mild bad language could be given a certificate 15 but frequent bad language will be classified as an 18.
Natural nudity is allowed for all classification levels, with sexual content resulting in more restrictive classifications.
If the theme to the film is racial, sexual, paedophilia, drugs or violence it may be classified as a 15 but in most cases will be given certificate 18.
Certificates are issued by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). In their opinion the film, video or game should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 years old. The 18 certificate was only created in 1982. For a film to be classified as an 18 in will contain some of the following; hard drug use, supernatural horror, explicit sex, sadistic violence and sexual violence.
Until recently sexual violence and sadistic violence were not even issued a certificate and were seen as not acceptable. According to the BBFC website no drugs promotion is tolerated, only films showing effects of drug misuse are given a classification. The use of bad language in films depends on the language being used; mild bad language could be given a certificate 15 but frequent bad language will be classified as an 18.
Natural nudity is allowed for all classification levels, with sexual content resulting in more restrictive classifications.
If the theme to the film is racial, sexual, paedophilia, drugs or violence it may be classified as a 15 but in most cases will be given certificate 18.
Friday 4 December 2009
Business data for the Horror genre
In 2008 28 horror films were released, bringing in a gross box office take in of 23.4 million. The top performer was Saw V. The horror genre had 126 sites at widest point of release from 28 films, only 5 per cent of films released in 2008 were horror though. Horror films are classified as "15" or "18". The majority of films released in 2008 were certificate "15", 193/527; there were only 51 "18's" released. Certificate "18" films have been consistently the lowest earner, with Sweeney Todd being the best performer of 2008.
In 2008 28 horror films were released, bringing in a gross box office take in of 23.4 million. The top performer was Saw V. The horror genre had 126 sites at widest point of release from 28 films, only 5 per cent of films released in 2008 were horror though. Horror films are classified as "15" or "18". The majority of films released in 2008 were certificate "15", 193/527; there were only 51 "18's" released. Certificate "18" films have been consistently the lowest earner, with Sweeney Todd being the best performer of 2008.
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