Draft Survey and Explanation

Below you can find an image of our draft survey, which we as a group decided we would put up on on a survey designing website from where we then can distribute a link out to the public.

Initial Draft Survey

However as this is the draft version, we are able to discuss in which order the questions should be  and also make a few adjustments. Therefore we created another draft survey, however this time in the layout which we would use for the public.

Final Draft Survey

We started off by asking people their gender and age so that we know if they are falling into our target audience. We need to know this because through this we would be able to identify their likes and dislikes in the genre Rom-Com, which would be beneficial to us whilst deciding on the final plot and also on the opening sequence of our film.

To know a it more about them, we asked what they or their colleagues like to do in their free time. This is because we would like the audience to feel connected to the character and for that we would need to know what people like/enjoy doing in their spare time. By having this information we would be able to make a character sketch of he lead/s who would have a similar taste like our target audience. 

Survey: Questions 1-4

After asking about them, we got onto questions which would help us making important decisions for our opening scene. First we asked from who's perspective they would like the Rom-Com to be from. Now this is a multiple choice question where they could choose; from the female lead's perspective, from the male leads, or from both. The reason why we asked this question is because so that we know from who's view to base the film from and also it would play an important part to the setting and music as a female oriented movie would end to have lots of voice overs, have beautiful scenery and a competition up against them, which would be another female who would usually be more prettier and popular than them. However if it would be a male oriented movie, you tend to have alcohol and also a close set of male buddies in the film. In that film, it would be about how the guy tries to impress the girl and finally is able to get her. And if it is a movie from both's perspective then the film usually focuses on their break up and how they try dealing with it and in the end get back together.

Survey: Questions 5-7

Another question we asked about the characters is the age and what their ethnicity should be. The reason this is important to us is because the setting and the style of the characters is different if they are teenagers compared to working adults. Also there is a vast change of dialogue between these two age groups. Furthermore there is another change of dialogues between different races. For example, stereotypically Black people would use Slang language whilst Asians would have an accent to their speech.

Survey: Question 8

Then we asked what characteristics they would expect the leads to have. This is because we want to know what they are expecting out of a Rom-Com character. This is again another help or us on the character sketch which we would be doing soon.


The last but not least we asked if they would like music or dialogue in the opening scene of the film. This is because there are various Rom-Com movies which would start of with either a dialogue or upbeat music which would set a happy mood, however a dialogue could tell the audience about the character or their background if it is a voice-over.