Audience research 1

Yasmin Schmitz
Audience Questionnaire One

Please Circle your chosen answer.

1) Are you Male/Female?

2) Which age group do you fall under?
10-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 50+

3) How many films do you watch per week?
0-2 3-5 6-10 11-14 15+

4) How do you watch most of your films?
Cinema TV DVD

5) Have/Did you study any films in school? If so, what type?






6) What do you understand by the term Social Realism?






7) What definition of social realism do you identify the closest with? (Circled preferred answer.)

Screen Online – Showing the experiences of real Britons on screen and shaping ideas of what British cinema can be. While our cinema has experiences all the fluctuations of Hollywood’s first export territory, realism has been Britain’s richest gift to world cinema.

Oxford Dictionary - Noun, the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life as a means of social or political comment.

Wikipedia – An artistic movement, expressed in visual and other realistic arts, which depicts working-class activities.

8) Out of these films, which have you seen? (Tick preferred answers.)
Kes Kidulthood
This is England Adulthood
Sweet Sixteen Somers Town
Dead Mans Shoes It’s A Free World
The wind that shakes the barley All or nothing
Four days in July Thirteen
Career Girls Trainspotting
About a boy Half Nelson

9) What would you expect from a film with a Social Realism content?






10) Does the social setting of the story affect the realism of the movie? If so, why?






11) Can the ethnic background of the movie be important to the story? If so, why?






12) Does the Story have to be set in a deprived area to be realistic or can realism happen in a luxurious setting? If so, why?






13) Have personal experiences in your life affected your perspective of social realism films?

Yes No

14) Can subjects like racism in society, bullying in schools, mental health issues be a topic of an engaging drama? If so, why





15) Given that This Is England Is quite a popular film amongst those who’ve seen it, do you think the media should do more to promote British Social Realism films?

Yes No




Yasmin Schmitz
Audience Questionnaire One

16) When going to the cinema, do you think there should be more variety in the types of films that they are showing? If so, why?







17) Do you think at least one or two of the screens in multiplexes should show some home grown British films?

Yes No

18) Why do you think multiplexes show so few Social Realistic films?






19) Do you think that the use of famous actors and actresses would benefit the popularity of social realism movies? If so, why?






20) What subjects/themes do you think Social Realism could tackle in a commercially successful way?





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