Monday, 7 December 2015

Analysis of BFI Data - Genre and Classification


As you can see from the table, out of the three genres that we are looking at. These genres are romance, thriller and horror. The genre that released the most films within one year was thriller. They released 64 films whilst horror released 37 films and romance released 34. This shows that thriller could be the most popular due to how many films they released. On the other hand, by looking at the total income for the films, you can clearly see which films are the most popular. The horror genre created £57.5 million. Thriller made £29.1 million and the romance genre made £13.9 million. This further shows that the most popular genre was horror. This is because although the genre made less films, they made more money for the films that they produced and released. The romance genre was not as popular. This is because they released the lowest amount of films and they also made the lowest amount of income. This shows that they were not as popular as the other genres that we are investigating.


From this set of data, it shows the average number of theaters that the films reached at the widest point of release and it also shows the amount that the box office made when the film was shown. In the horror genre, their films reached 145 box offices. This shows that it reached a large amount of cinemas. Box offices, in total, made about £57.5 million when the horror genre films were shown. The thriller genre reached 89 cinemas. The gross amount that box offices made was £29.1 million. This shows that since the genre didn't reach to as many cinemas, this has affected the amount of money that the box offices have made in total. the romance genre has the lowest statistics. The genre only reached 59 cinemas and the gross amount that box offices made was £13.9 million. Over all this shows that the most popular genre is horror. This is because they managed to get the films shown in more cinemas therefore more audiences watched the films which then brought in further income for the box offices, hence why the gross amount is the highest than other genres. 

The chart shows the the average amount that each cinema makes from the genre. It is compared with the overall gross amount of the films and also how many box offices the genre reached. In the horror genre, the average profit of the film is £10,708. The genre managed to reach a total number of 5,367 box offices, This is a large amount of money for each box office. The thriller genre made an average of £5,127 for each cinema. The amount of cinemas the genre reached was 5,667. The romance genre managed to make the cinemas roughly £6,895 each. The amount of cinemas the genre reached was 2,014. Over all this shows that the horror genre did a lot better in sales due to the amount of audiences reached. Also, the romance genre has interesting statistics. Although the romance genre did not reach to as many cinemas, they still managed to make each box office more more than the thriller genre did. Due to not reaching as many cinemas, this means that the over all income for the genre is lower than thriller.



The chart above shows the number of releases of each genre within the UK and Ireland. It also allows you to see the amount the genre made all together within this area. The horror genre released 7 films within the UK and Ireland in 2013. This generated a total of £14.8 million. The thriller genre released 17 films within the UK and Ireland. The total amount made was £4.1 million. Lastly, the romantic comedy only released 3 films throughout the year. The amount the box offices made was a total of £6.2 million. This shows that the horror and romantic genres are popular with the UK and Ireland. The horror genre released more films and made more profit but the romantic genre managed to release less films and almost get half of the horrors profit. The thriller genre did not do as well within the UK and Ireland even though they released more films. They did not make as much profit so this shows that there were less audiences viewing the films. The most popular horror film that was shown was World War Z. The most popular romantic film that was shown was I Give It A Year. Finally, the most popular film was The Counsellor.

The chart shows the number of films worldwide (e.g. Hollywood films), in the UK and the small budget films within the UK (UK independent films). As you can see from the chart, Animation is an extremely popular worldwide film. Action is the most popular UK film and then comedy is the most popular UK independent film. Horror has more films shown at box offices with a 5.8%. they are also shows a lot around the world with a 5.0% of films being shown at box offices. The thriller genre has more worldwide films and UK independent films rather than UK films. The romance genre has a high proportion of films at box offices that are UK independent. The percentage of this is 8.1%. Over all this shows that the most popular genre over all would be horror. I think this because from looking at the data, the horror genre has a higher percentage of Hollywood type films rather than UK/UK independent films. Typically, Hollywood films do better on the market rather than UK films and UK independent films.

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