Genre Research

The very first stage of creating a film would be to choose a genre. Deciding on a film genre may be seen as simple task, despite this, it is important to conduct research into what genres appeal to your audience, and also the capability of creating a film with that genre, as an amateur film maker. As there are no requirements for what genre type we needed, we were able explore a range of all the genres. Here is a list of the film genres:

Action Adventure                         Drama                                                Science Fiction and Fantasy 
Animation                                     Family                                                Sport
Biopics                                          Horror                                                Thriller
Bollywood                                     Music Documentary                        War Films
Comedy                                        Musical                                              Westerns
Crime                                            Period and Historical                      World Cinema
Documentary                               Romance



Scanning through this list we immediately knew there would be many genres that we would not attempt in doing. We could then narrow down this list to give a reasonable choice of genres that we would be able to create a film around. Here is our selected list:

Action Adventure

Comedy

Crime

Horror

Romance

Thriller

I conducted further research around these selected genres to gain a better direction towards the genre we would choose. Asking a range of participants and volunteers I could gain a lot of information about what the most enjoyed genres are.

By creating and distributing a questionnaire through random sampling I could receive feedback on what the most enjoyed film genre is, and why the participants enjoy it, and also what the least preferred genre is.

Collecting this data would give me information about audiences and will considerably affect our decision on what genre to use for our own film. We will have to evaluate all the pros and cons and decide what the most suitable genre will be. Here is a considerably accurate graph of the results of the questionnaire feedback; this shows the totalled result percentages of each favourite genre:

It is clear that the top three enjoyed genres are Thriller, Comedy and Crime. This will have a big affect on the decision of what genre to use in our own film.