1. 1. What kind of ending is most
dramatic?
Percentage
80.00% 72.70%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00%
40.00% 36.40%
30.00% 27.30% Percentage
20.00%
9.10%
10.00%
0%
0.00%
Cliffhanger Emotionally Happy Twist Tragic
disturbing ending

2. What elements do you expect to be in
a drama film?
Percentage
9.10%
Emotions
45.50% 72.70%
Action
Arguments
Death
36.40%

3. What age group would you like your
actors or actresses to be in?
Percentage
90% 81.80%
80%
70%
60%
50%
Percentage
40%
23.70%
30%
20%
10% 0%
0%
15-18 years 18- 25 years 25+

4. 2
1.5
1
0.5
0
The Mentalist
Taxi driver
Kickass
1 1 1 1
The Lovely Bones
2
Crash
1
Titanic
1
Social networking
1
Atonement
1
Any
Response count
and why?
1
Don't know
What is your top favourite drama film
Response count

5. What makes a bad drama film?
• Crap stage directions
• if it drags on and no actions or twist to the story
• Boring storyline
• A really stupid plot
• Having a typical storyline so that as the audience are
watching it they can pretty much assume the events to
unfold or the ending.
• Too much crying
• Bad acting (x2)
• Being too cheesy
• Over reaction, too serious all the time
• Very few emotional/high drama moments

6. What makes a drama film enjoyable?
• A good twist
• If something happens we never expected to see
• Good storyline
• Dramatic lighting, the setting and special effects and twists.
• The mix of characters and the plot itself
• Action and romance
• A few comical lines
• Tension
• Emotional
• Where the actors play their characters very well, and with
real conviction of emotion.

7. What traditional elements of a drama
film would you like to see?
• Dramatic irony
• bad ones are always defeated at the end of the film
• Batman The Dark Knight
• A happy ending
• Conflict for the main characters or a sort of dispute.
• Romance
• A huge problem should occur, or several problems
• A very dramatic turning point or ending
• Thought provoking issues about real life human issues.
• Emotions Intense conflict Big Climax
• Based around a family

8. What would you like to see different in
a drama film?
• More action
• If something new happens at the end
• More genres
• Time travel
• Varying storylines and different, unexpected twists.
• Nothing
• A conversion with the action genre
• not a happy ending
• More twists on films, more Asian people
• A break from stereotypes - the bad person doesn't always have to be the
poor or Black person; the victim doesn't have to be a woman - reverse the
roles.
• Something scary

9. How would you like the film to start?
Percentage
50.00% 45.50% 45.50%
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
9.10%
10.00% Percentage
0.00%
0%
Tension
Tension to
from the Flashbacks
gradually Other
start
build

10. What ethnicity or gender would you
like the main character to be?
Percentage
27.30%
54.50% 81.80% Male
Female
54.50% 54.50%
36.40% Black
White
Asian
South Asain