Summary for the Questionnaire

From the questionnaire our group have found out more of the audience's perspective of a romantic comedy.

• We found that 95% expect a film to be entertaining not informative
• The stock settings for a romantic comedy are mostly a school environment or a home where main events are emphasised, in our questionnaire we found that 80% think the environment creates realism and 20% did'nt.
• The use of titles for our chosen genre appear unique, they are mostly in the colour pink and our shown as bold so it catches our eye, also the colour represents the romance. Examples of this are 'Wild Child' and 'The perfect match.'
• We found that the appearance of characters and the situations they are put in create an enigma which an example of this is 'Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging' where she is dressed as a olive at a house party.
• The stock characters that we found were mostly seen in romantic comedys with evidence from our questionnaire was a 'mean girl/popular girl' who gets what they want and takes over. A new person who soon becomes noticed, in alot of films there are the main group of friends.These are shown in films like 'Mean Girls' and 'John Tucker must die.'
• throughout our research the main themes in romantic comedys would be friendship and loyality, social status and love.
• The iconography is teen girls dramatic, there is conflict between groups and there status. The girls having crushes on the boys that come across mysterious. Films with this iconography include 'Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging' and 'Princess Diaries.'