To find out if people will like the idea of me mixing two opposite genres together, horror and romance, i decided to conduct a survey. I did not tell the people i asked the aim of the survey, so there was no demand characteristics. Although tell them afterwards and asked if they would not mind me using there results so there was no ethical problems.
The questions i asked:
- What gender are you?
- What age are you?
- What is your favourite movie genre?
- Do you watch a variety of genres, or do you mainly stick to your favourite genre?
- Do you enjoy hybrid genres more or less then movies that strictly stick to a single genre?
- Which two genres do you think go best with each other and why?
- Which two genres do you think would go worst with each other and why?
- Do you think these genres would go well together?:
- action & comedy
- action & romance
- romance & horror
- comedy & gangster
- romance & comedy
- crime & musical
- thriller & romance
- drama & disaster
- thriller & adventure
- sci-fi & horror
- mystery & thriller
9. Do you think two opposite genres like horror and romance or action and comedy would go well together and why?
All together i asked 20 people, of a mixture of ages and ethnicity's. My findings shown:
- All 20 people said they enjoyed hybrid films more than films that stick to one genre.
- Most people enjoyed the genres comedy, horror and romance most
- Majority of people thought that the two genres that go best with each other are romance&comedy and horror&comedy
- Majority of people thought genres that go bad with each other are sci-fi&musical thriller&comedy
- Majority of people (12) said that they thought horror and romance would go well with each other
- 14 people said they thought that two opposite genres would go well with each other.
Although the majority of people did say they they thought horror and romance would go well together, there was still a number of people who didn't. The people who said they thought they would not go well together, at the end of the survey i told them my idea of a trailer and asked if they thought it was a good idea. All 8 people said yes and when i asked why they changed there mind, most people said it was a problem the name of the genres. When i said horror they thought of super natural monster etc.
However all the people who said they believed that horror and romantic genres would not go well together were either under the age of 16 or over the age of 40. This age group was not my targeted audience, it was 18 - 40 therefore it does not have too much of an impact anyway. It does not change things it's just goes to show i was right in thinking that those age groups might not enjoy my film as much as my target audience which tell me i chose my target audience correctly.
After my survey i thought about what people and said. The genre horror does stereotypically contain supernatural monsters and ghosts etc, in which my film does not. So i need to find out which genre would suit my movie more as not to confuse anybody, and to put anybody off watching my film.
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