Films audience question.

[Accipiter]

Were would modern movies if made a similar genre to a past rom com (example) get data from old similar movies? would it be from box offices viewings etc, need answer before like, tomorrow.

[Misawa]

Yes, the film would be based on a tried and tested genre. The box office and home entertainment revenue for similar films or original films, in the case of producing remakes, would be looked at to make sure there was a financially viable audience for the film.

[ItsDave]

Yeah, alot of research goes into a film way before pre-production, to see if its an available product, if similar things have been done in the past - have they done well, or if it will appeal to the future audience now a days.

They research old films or history from the time period for the depending genre.

[Accipiter]

also can you target these 3 research techniques (if you know them)

at large existing movies so i can get a stronger knowledge on them:

-Quantitative

-Qualitative

-Objective

[Neversoft]

A quantitative question would be as the name suggests, a question that relies on answers pertaining to quantity. A poll or a question with a few limited answers would fit in this category. A qualitative question is a question that relies more on the quality of the answer. These questions don't have a definitive answer and are more opinion based. You can tally up and analyse quantitative answers, but not so much qualitative answers.

Examples of qualitative and quantitative questions would be

(Quantitative) What character did you like best?
- Bob
- Joe
- Fred

(Qualitative) How did you interpret the ending?

If you are objective it means you are fair and unbiased. The opposite of objective is subjective.

Quantitative and qualitative research techniques would come in most useful in polls and questionnaires.

Hope that helps. I did pretty good on my audience research project back in college.