Focus group Survey Analysis
We done a survey based on the effects that Hot Fuzz would have on the audience and what they thought about the movie and if they found anything offensive about it.
The majority of the audience gender that took the survey was males and 10 males and 3 females that answered our survey. The age group of the audience that took our survey varied from under 18 to 30-44 but most of the audience was aged under 18, which answered the survey for us. The target audience for the movie is males that is aged under 18 to 18-29 and we managed to get 5 under 18 males and 2 18-29 males to answer the survey on Hot Fuzz.
Age and Gender:
Age
Gender
Male
Female
Under 18
18-29
30-44
45+
3
5
2
3
Scenes of Hot Fuzz:
We asked the audience out of the three scenes that we showed them if any of these scenes have offended them and the majority of them said that the ending scene of the film they found offensive out of all the scenes. The reason why two of the audience from the focus group found this scene offensive is because they said that, “Pastor using offensive language”- by two under 18 females. Which means that they didn’t like the fact that they made a religious man like a Pastor use offensive language when they are suppose to not use that sort of language.
How offensive they found the language?
We asked the focus group how offensive they found the language of the scenes that we showed them from the scale of 1-5, 1 being not so offensive and 5 being extremely offensive. 1 male under 18, 1 female under 18 and 1 male aged between 30-44 put 1 being not so offensive which means that they believed that the scenes that were shown to them didnt not of a lot of offensive language in it. 2 males aged 18-29 but a number 2 meaning that there was a little amount of strong language in the scenes. 2 males under 18, 1 female under 18, 2 males aged between 30-44 put a number 3 for the offensiveness of the movie which means that they believed that there was a high amount of offensive language that was shown in the scenes. 1 male under 18 put the number 4 which means that they found the scenes being very offensive by the language shown. From the results found we seen that males under 18 for the scenes more offensive more than the other audience and they were the target audience that the movie was rated for.
Classification of Hot Fuzz:
We asked the focus group which classification would they give the movie and they thought it would be appropriate. 1 person said that they would age rate the movie a 12, 2 people said they would age rate the movie a 12A, 8 people said that they would age rate the movie a 15 and 2 people said that they would age rate the movie an 18. The morjority of the audience that watched the movie believed that it should be a 15 rating for the movie which is exactly the rating that the movie has which means based on the language and the violence in the movie they believed that only audience aged 15 and above should be able to watch the movie based on its content.
How the police were portrayed:
We asked the focus group 'If you were a policeman, would you be offended by the way the police are portrayed?' 5 people said 'Yes' that they did find the way that they portrayed the police in the movie offensive. 7 people said 'No' they did not find the way that they portrayed the police in the movie offensive. This means that the morjority of the focus group believed that they did not be offensive when they portrayed the police in the movie.
Stereotypes of the police:
We asked the focus group if the stereotypes of the police that they shown in the movie is accurate. 3 of the people said 'Yes' that they found that the stereotypes of the police that were shown in the movie was accurate. 10 people said 'No' the stereotypes of the police was not accurate which means that the mojority of the audience believed that the stereotypes of the police are different from the ones that they have shown in the clips.
'Did you find the film funny?'
We asked the focus group is if they found the film funny and all of them said 'yes' which means that Edgar Wright succeeded in trying to make his movie funny and that the humour is good for people aged 15 and over.
