Questionnaire results.

 3 said; What do you first think of when you see the words - 'Action Film.'  The results show that people would associate 'Action' with -
Violence, fighting, climax and blood.


This helped me to realise what elements people expect to see in an Action Film. Although we don't really want our production to be too cliché, and similar to other films. We still want there to be aspects of the film that the genre theory will help identify this genre.After the results we see some of the things we should include in the production.

4 said; How do Action films make you feel? The results showed me that -
75% felt Excited
18% felt Tense
7% felt Nervous


These results show that the most feelings of our audience would be excited. Although we don't know what makes the audience feel excited. We could have improved this questionnaire by asking what in the action films makes the people feel excited. Then we would know exactly what to focus in the two minute production.

5 said; How important do you think these items are for an Action genre? (1 being the LEAST important.)
Results:
61 points for an AXE
52 points for a KNIFE
46 points for a SWORD
43 points for a GUN
38 points for EXPLOSIONS


Having the axe as the top of the list shows that this is one of the main weapons that people think are rather important. We as a group have decided that we may use this, or the use of knives which was the second from top important weapon. We will use this to show the type of genre we decided to do as our production.



 9 said; What do you think is important for an Action film?
Results:
 26.67% of people said that Jump-scares were important.
 53.33% said explosions
 20.00% said violence
33.33% said blood
86.67% said a unique story line



With the results being high for the unique story line shows that we have to focus on this part of the script when we write it. This also means that the ideas have to be original. We can be influenced by people,films, directors etc... We will not be able to use explosions which is another thing people think of to associate with action films. but we will be able to use blood which is also important for people to see during action films.


 11 said; IDEA: one evening, three people sit at a dinner table together enjoying a meal as they socialise. The room stands silent. You can only hear the sound their cutlery scraping across their plates. Two of the characters look at each other and look back at the third character on the other side of the table. A fight lashes out. Please give some of your opinions, and tell us how we can improve this idea :)
Results:
One person stated -

'One character could go to the toilet, or go to move away, turning their back, and then the fight starts, as he hears them move towards him, he turns around and comes face to face with the knife. FIGHTTT.'

I feel that this could be a good idea if filmed and edited properly, but they shouldn't be face to face with the knife. As it could be dangerous and if we were to do a close up of the persons face, their expressions may turn out wrong and not look the way tit was meant to. I really like the idea of someone walking away with their back to the other people in the scene.

Another stated -

'Maybe have a small argument before hand then the silence cuts and the fight follows so that the audience have some insight as to why the fight is happening but not too much insight, they can't know everything. but sound alike an amazing idea :)'

I like the idea of the audience knowing a bit about why the characters in the film are having a fight scene, nut not knowing all, as the rest of the film/production if were to be longer than 2 minutes would be finding out exactly what happened. . Although that story will need to be unique. I feel that the silence shouldn't be too long as it could cause too much tension if were to put that there.

All together I found that we should use some sort of weapon in the production. We should also focus the main characters in the first 30 seconds - 1 minute of the clip. I also found that people enjoy watching action films, so we should find out what the audience finds exciting about these types of films. The results of the questionnaire show that the use of blood, this makes our idea of using blood even more dominant for the production.