Questionairre and audience research

For our pitch we created a questionnaire so that we were hoping to gain a broader understanding of what our audience will want see in a an opening of a British Gangster film and therefore begin to shape the needs for the viewer. What we were trying to achieve in this questionnaire is that we wanted to see what the public believed in the conventions of a Brit Gangster so we asked questions which were appropriate to the opening sequence. We asked questions on stock costumes, soundtrack, stock locations, ideology and then asked for their views on certain actors and films. The results of the questionnaire were very interesting and gave us a good insight into what people expected of a gangster film, we found out that some things that we asked, such as jewellery which we expected to be important ideology wasn't but everyone said that money was important, which we expected as well. The soundtrack was very much split between, this did not help at all so we will have to use our initiative to decide what will suit our opening sequence. The question which asked who was your favorite actor was useful, as 50% found Daniel Craig was and this meant that we could base the acting on the style of Daniel Craig and people may like it like that. Also, what we didn't expect was that people found violence linked with comedy was what made a gangster film, this gave us some more ideas into our storyboard in what we can use for the script.