2. The Age Question.
This was my first question, How Old
Are You? Admittedly, there were
some mistakes that were later
rectified in the paper hard-copy, such
as missing out the ages 26 to 29 and
repeating ages, 35-45 and 45-60.
Disregarding this, my answers were as
clear as the question can get, a large
amount of people who took the
survey are teenagers to young adults.
This is positive and negative for
different reasons. On one hand as my
film is exploring the idea of teen
homosexuality, having a teen audience
will have more of an effect on a
sympathetic and empathetic level. It is
a common stereotype for teens to be
sexually confused and therefore they
can relate to having to face inner
feelings and ridicule, which are issues
in my short.
3. The Ethnicity Question.
This question asked people of their ethnicity. As
you can see, 100% of people are White, 94%
being British and 6% being ‘Other’. The list of
ethnicities was taken from a wikipedia article on
the 2001 UK census.
The ethnicity wasn’t all too important, it was just
to get an idea for who was answering and make
the questionnaire more personal. The results
were extremely one sided, with 100% of people
being white.
4. The Sexuality Question.
This question is more obviously
attached to my short’s theme. Looking
at the results a large percentage, just
over three quarters are heterosexual.
Ideally I would have preferred more
homosexuals or bisexual to have
answered, but from the method of
distribution that I used, there was no
way I could have altered that.
This demographic will have redeemed
itself in a upcoming question.
5. The Location Question.
This question is the first part of research into
class and status of my demographic. By looking
at the most common locations that people live
in and then combining that with the next
question, I can make an assumption towards the
class and status of the people who took part in
the questionnaire.
6. The Residential Question.
Out of the 17 responses, 16 lived in a house. Adding up
the amount of bedrooms and bathrooms and dividing it by
the number of responses, we can get an average house
size for the responses.
48 bedrooms / 16 houses = 3/house
21 bathrooms / 16 houses = 1.3/house
The average house size of the responders are
three bedroom and one bathroom (two every
three houses). Using this information, disregarding
the one person who lives in a flat, alongside the
knowledge that 71% of people live in Surrey, a
county that has the highest GDP per capita of any
county in England, we can go ahead and assume the
people responding to my questionnaire are mostly
above working class, around the lower-middle to
middle-class area.
7. The Social Realism Question.
From these results we can see that a slight
majority are familiar with the term social realism.
This will help when showing the film as they will
be expecting the conventions of the genre and
not be disappointed by not understanding what
type of film it is. Roughly a quarter said that they
have heard of the genre, giving me the
opportunity to take them into it with my film and
increasing their enjoyment by seeing a quality film
of this genre which they have merely heard of.
8. The Viewing Question.
This graph tells me that Youtube and
Vimeo are widely used resources for
watching short films. The idea of this
question was half to get a feel for the
appropriate place to upload my short
and half to get an idea for the amount
of people which view short films in
general. Now, based on previous
questions, I can assume that most of
these people are not watching social
realism shorts. But this is fine as
mentioned previously because it gives
me the chance to open up this genre
for my demographic.
9. The Important Question.
This question is appropriately labelled the
important question because it boils down to
whether my film will be worth making after the
people doing the interview have made their
decision.
Luckily, I got a landslide of the answer ‘yes’
with 82% of people saying that they would be
interested in watching a film of my genre and
content. This question was not disguised in
anyway and flat out asks ‘Would you be
interested in a short film about teen
homosexuality?’. This allows me to conclude
that my film would be a good idea to make and
lets me move on to the last question asking
about the issues that they would expect to see.
10. The Issue Question
Number of words I
would consider as-
Positive = 2
Negative = 9
Neutral = 8
When studying the graph of responses, if you ignore neutral
words such as ‘age’ and ‘feelings’, there is a large ratio of negative
to positive words. This tells me that the majority of people
believe that a social realism text about homosexuality would have
dark undertones and themes. This helps me to see that the
majority of the people who responded would know what to
expect. Although that may look like a down-side, it also gives me
insight to what the viewers want to see in my short film, even if it
is quite negative. As you can see, words like Bullying and
Acceptance and Moral Issues and Prejudice/ Discrimination are
closely tied to the number of responses that said them. This tells
me that although the audience would find interest in a movie
where there is homophobic bullying, there is an equal amount of
people who would like to see a ‘happy ending’ or some sort of
revelation within the text.
