18 certificate films - survey monkey

SURVEY MONKEY

After we decided to certify our film as an 18. We decided it would be best to research what makes an 18 certificate differ from a 15 in terms of horror, so therefore we made a survey monkey to ask general members of the public. We initially thought to only ask over 18s, because we believe that it would only be appropriate to ask them, however, after much thought, we decided it would be best to ask people of all ages. This is because it will allow us to know why someone of a younger age would not feel comfortable watching an 18 and we believed it was best to find that out from the younger generation themselves. Here are some of the questions we asked and their results. 

From the results of this question, we inferred that our film definitely certified as an 18 as it included challenging and taboo themes, such as controversial religious aspects etc.

We were slightly shocked by this result, as our film does not include any extremely violent or fighting themes. However, we decided that not all 18 certificate films had to include this and as nearly half voted "only the majority of them". 

From this result, we were able to reinforce our decision of making it our film an 18 certificate. This is because our opening does include taboo and challenging themes such as stigmata.

This really assisted in our research, as it allowed us to differentiate what we need to do to make sure our film is correctly certified.

-Caera Mendez

Audience Feedback after our Final Piece

Consumer Feedback After Release of our Final Piece

How did we spread the word of our opening and promote it?

Due to this being a small project, we mainly targeted our film opening towards our friends and family - however this is justified due to the majority of our peers being teenagers and therefore members of our target audience.

To raise awareness of our video, all four of us shared the link on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Doing this invited people to watch, like and comment on our video which made us realise the effect social media can have on the promotion of real media.

The Feedback

The audience feedback was mostly positive for the opening. As you can see we have got almost 430 views and we have got 34 likes and zero dislikes. There was also 14 comments.

Upon reading through the comment section on our video, we realised that people found our video suspenseful and scary, which is what we wanted. We also received positive feedback on our overall editing, highlighting parts such as the music, framing and sound effects.

Overall, we have come to conclusion that our film opening was a success, as many members of our target audience gave incredibly positive feedback. We also received verbal compliments from members of our school community as the link to our video was shared around.