Survey analysis

1. Age:

One third of the participants that answered the questionnaire were 18+, the rests were 17 years old. This will be an area of improvement for me when I am organizing my next survey. But it is suggested that more teenagers express an interest in the mockumentary genre than adults do.

2. Gender:

7/9 respondents were male, while the remaining 2 were females. Another area where I could have improved for my research on the mockumentary genre. A big majority of my respondents were male. However, I did find out that more males are interested in the mockumentary genre than females because both my female respondents left the fifth question blank.

3. Where would you see yourself in the political spectrum? (1-5) 1 being left and 5 being right.

Two-thirds of my respondents are on the left-wing side of the political spectrum, while three of them claim to be right on the middle. Here I have learnt that mockumentaries generally attract people who are left-wing because famous movies like Borat have been known for making fun of people on the right wing of the political spectrum, and that might push people who are right wing away from the genre. Two of the three respondents who answered my survey said that their favourite mockumentaries were the ones that were not related to politics.

4. How interesting are politics to you? (1-5) 1 being not at all, 5 being very interested.

This question was very split, one third of the respondents each were either really interested in politics, or found it fairly interesting, or not interesting at all. This shows a sign that politics do have an involvement with how mockumentaries are made. 

5. What do you think about mockumentaries on a scale of 1-5? (1 being not at all, 5 being amazing)

Out of all my respondents on my survey, 3/9 had no interest in mockumentaries, their was 2 respondents that did not know what the mockumentary genre was. While the remaining respondents were either fairly interested in them, or really liked them. I have learnt from this survey that the mockumentary genre is a highly praised, sub-genre to the comedy genre. 

6. What is your favourite comedy sub-genre? Please tick

• Action Comedy
• Romantic Comedy
• Crime Comedy
• Black comedy
• Comedy Drama
• Comedy Horror
• Mockumentary

The two most popular comedy sub-genres are action comedy, and comedy drama. 6/9 respondents said their favorite sub-genres were action comedy, and comedy drama. While the three remaining said their favorite sub-genre was the mockumentary, black comedy, and romantic comedy genre. The reason why action comedies and comedy genres are the most praised because fans of the action genre, and drama genre are being attracted to the movie and the comedy bit is usually just added to add some joy to the film.

7. What is your favourite mockumentary film, if any?

5/9 respondents said that they had at least one favourite mockumentary film, while the others said they did not have one. I have learnt that Spinal Tap and Borat are classified as the two most popular mockumentaries. We also show that the mockumentary genre is not well known, and doesn't really attract massive amounts of people, compared to other genres.

8. What is your favourite comedy film?

All nine of my respondents said that they had at least one favourite comedy movie. The two films that were mentioned the most were Edgar Wrights first two films in the Cornetto trilogy that were Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz. I have learnt that the comedy genre is a highly praised genre in movies, and it attracts a big audience.

9. Do you think there are any problems with the mockumentary genre?

Two-thirds of my respondents stated that their are no problems with the mockumentary genre while one-third said their are a few problems. Two of the three respondents who said their was a problem with the mockumentary genre stated that they have a reputation for making jokes on very sensitive subjects that viewers might find upsetting. While one respondent said, "Not enough of them are made" this is displaying that not enough mockumentaries are made to be classified as a popular sub-genre. 

10. What type of teaser trailer do you prefer?

• Single scene trailers
• Footage that’s not in the main film
• Classic cinematic trailer

Two-thirds of my respondents said that they favor the classic cinematic trailer which has a lot of clips from the films put together. This is also displayed because several movie teaser trailers that are released like Star Wars, have a montage of clips put together explaining little bits of the plot. While two respondents said that they like the single-scene trailers and one respondent says they like footage that is not from the film.

11. How much do you want teaser trailers to reveal?

• Very little/nothing
• Moderate amount
• A lot/the main details of the plot

None of the nine respondents said that they like teaser trailers revealing the main details of the plot. Most of the respondents said that they like a moderate amount of the plot being revealed in a teaser trailer, and the remainder said they like very little being revealed about the film itself. The reason being for this is because viewers do not want the film they are planning on watching to be ruined in during a trailer. This could either affect the amount the movie grosses at the box office, or have viewers hyped up, then disappointed to find out that they got most of the plot wrong.

12. Where do you usually watch them?

• YouTube
• Social media sites
• Cinema/DVDs
• Other online sites

8/9 respondents said they they usually watch teaser trailers on YouTube. While only one of the respondents say they watch trailers either in cinema or on DVD, as adverts before the film starts. The internet has become bigger these days, attracted a lot of people to log on and YouTube is the new website where people are going to watch videos, for leisure.

13. How successful are teaser trailers in generating interest?

• Not very successful
• Moderately
• Very successful

5/9 respondents said that teaser trailers are really successful at promoting their films to current fans, and regular film goers, while two said they are fairly successful to promote interest and one said not very successful. The reason why teaser trailers are usually successful promoting interest because they reveal little bits about the film, which hypes up audiences, but at the same time, they do not reveal too much because it could cause potential black lash, and spoil the film for others.