Genre and Classification - BFI Statistical Yearbook 2014 - Summary

With the data that is shown in the graph you can clearly see what films are preferred and which ones are not. The reason i know which films are preferred is because in the table you can see that for example, Horror and the Thriller genre are apart from each other, you can see that the Horror genre has done less films within the genre unlike the Thriller genre. Horror has done a total of 37 films unlike Thriller that have accomplished 64 films. This is a crisis because Thriller have spent more money in making more movies to get even more profit and unfortunately failed at this takes because their Gross box office (in £ millions) is near enough half the price of what Horror have made. In total Horror genre has accomplished 37 films with a Gross box office of 57.5 million which is incredibly more.

Unlike the Animation genre they have made even less films than Horror and Thriller but are at the top of the table. In total they have made 33 films with a Gross box office of up to 246.6 million. The reason for this is quite simple. Horror films have a target audience which would usually be adults are older teenagers, kids from 8 years old wouldn't appreciate been scared to death by zombies or ghosts so they would be unable to watch this from the cinema. Unlike Animation where kids from any age accompanied by parents can watch these types of films but also elderly people would also not appreciate being scared by the Horror genre but may enjoy the Animation genre films. This gives a much wider range of ages that will watch their films allowing more money to go into their company. Plus kids are more enthusiastic about going to the cinema than adults.

This table shows the amount of films that are shown on cinema screens overall in the UK. You can see that Sci-fi is the most popular with an Average number of 422 cinemas showing that kind of genre. This does prove people enjoy that genre much and it does have quite a big audience target as 12 year olds may to a certain extent enjoy this kind of film, but it is the 4th down in the 'Films Released' table, but only releasing 9 films but getting a Gross box office total of 87.4 million which is quite incredible realising the joint 3rd least amount of films released. You can see a trend within the Average number of releases, all the top 3 have really low number of releases meaning the US studios could massively advertise and promote these movies tempting more people to go watch these. They possibly could also pay more cinemas to release them for the public to watch them. You can see that the Genres that have a lot of films that need released are quite near to the bottom as they would have to spend money to advertise and promote all of these movies, so what i thought they would of done would be promote and advertise the best looking films so they can try make the most profit but unable to pay cinemas to possibly release them.