Film Opening Survey Analysis

The first question in the survey asked about peoples favorites film genre. 48.72% of responses said Comedy was their favorite film genre. We have chose to stay away from comedy as the main genre for our film opening as it is difficult and a too high skill set for our current media skills. The second highest response was Romance with 15.38%, followed by Thriller with 10.26%. Horror and Social-Realism were the last two with 2.56% of the votes each. Other responses such as Drama and Marvel were added. Although Social-Realism was one of the lowest, we have still chosen to use it as our main genre. This is because we will be able to go in-depth into the scenario filmed with the use of drugs and alcohol. One of our main objectives it to change the way Social-Realism films are portrayed and hopefully change peoples opinions about them as they are not the most popular at the moment; as our survey shows.

The second question asks about specific favorite films. Many of the responses relate to films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Using his ‘wacky’ ideas we hope to use a similar style when filming ours, especially in the opening party scene. Other answers mention films like ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ which fits in very well with our party scene as it has very short shots of the party, in ours we hope to develop the scene with the use of lights, music and drug use. Many of the films people submitted are comedy, our party scene also has the objective to make the audience laugh as watching nowadays teens at a party can be entertaining to watch.

The next question asks about what makes a good film opening. Many of the answers said suspense. This is exactly what we intend to use when we produce our opening. The final opening part of the scene revolves around an incident with a lot of suspense as to what actually happened. Another answer commented that a good film opening should be one that ‘grabs your attention quickly’. This is what we have planned to do with the use of non-diegetic sound which will be placed over the top and the short alternating shots in which we intend to use. The use of bright colours used (neon paint, laser and UV lights) will make it stand out.

The final question relates to the best film opening they have scene in a film. Pretty much all of the films people replied with have opening scenes with the use of loud sound, and suspense. As I mentioned before this is exactly what we intend to do as it grabs the viewers attention straight away.

We have adapted our film opening to meet the preferences of our audience, (teenagers) who took this survey. We want it to reflect nowadays ‘Teenage Raves’ by focusing of alcohol, drugs and sex. We will do this by filming close-ups and use slow-motion to show the effects of what these substances feel like.