Film Magazine and Movie Poster Survey

Survey AnalysisLuca Reidy

Question 1)What is your gender?

• From this information collected, our film magazine will be influenced from the female audience.

• Generally, we see females read more magazines meaning the questions answered can be beneficial to us when creating the magazine

Question 2)What is your age?

• The age range of our film trailer has to represent what our target audience.

• As most men between 18 and 34 are most stereotypical to watch crime films, we know they will tell us the appropriate information about what to include on the magazine front page

Question 3)What film genres are you interested in?

• The information collected from this question shows most of our answers may be slightly different to what we expected, as most people are interested in comedy.

• The crime interest in 2nd place will allow us to see some correct representations

Question 4)What colour scheme would you expect from a

featured crime movie?• We will follow a dark

colour scheme mainly consisting of blacks, greys and simplistic colours.

• As our film trailer is crime, this well allow is to create more tension within the magazine and poster as the audience will not be able to see clear aspects.

Question 5)What is the best name for a film magazine?

• The name of our magazine is View, chosen from one of our responders commenting it underneath the question.

• The meaning of the word View is ‘to look at or inspect’ which is the main focus of the promotional materials were creating. Voyeurism also is the ability to seek gratification from an object, which is what were hoping our magazine and poster will do.

Question 6)What content would you expect from a film

magazine• As we are only creating a front

cover, we have to engage our audience by the use of cover lines and images. To do this, research shows that they prefer reviews and behind the scenes.

• Examples of cover lines can be; – Predators, release of the year?– Massive special preview

• Both of these cover lines dont give the audience any information, engaging them more with the magazine

Question 7) From the front cover, what details do you want to know about the

film?

• Normally when you see a film magazine, you see one of the main characters which is what we will do on our magazine front page. The picture will show details about a specific section of the story, without giving away any teasers.

Question 8) Should the cover lines represent the crime

genre?• Our previous question was

asking about what content should be on the cover. The results on this question show that they only want crime cover lines, linking to other films.

• This also attracts a larger male audience as this is our preferred target audience and if they see crime genre cover lines, they would more likely be interested in the magazine

Question 9) What conventions do you expect to see

• Convetions have to stay the same, based on David Chandlers genre theory. From this, the audience have shown that a crime movie magazine and poster should contain a sense of violence, which can be shown through facial expressions or physical violence.

• Mise-en-scene can also represent this from the use of suits (represented with mafia’s, or rugged tracksuits, more London based gangs)

Question 10) Would you prefer us to reveal any secrets about

the movie• The fact that the

majority of the audience doesn't want any secrets to be shown, we will make sure all images are subtle in their context, and also all cover lines do not give away any story lines.