BFI Research

We contacted the BFI for further information about our research into short films and permission to carry out research in the BFI. These are snapshots of what we wrote to them.  

Couple of days later; we recieved a message from the BFI with some vague information. Therefore this still did not answer our question to whether comedy films are popular within short films. This is the message that we recieved by them; informing us on which webpages we can look into to find more information.

However, even though this did give us little details we decided that we would attend the short film festival which was going to happen from Wednesday 13th of October to 28th of October. We believed that this would be the best time as it would allow us to gather very valuable results. Our main intention was to conduct our research at the festival as it would allow us to gather in depth information by people who do watch short films and would of answered our question 'if younger adults watch more comedy short films as against older adults'. However, due to personal issues this meant that we could not attend the festival during these specific dates. So, we decided to make some changes to our research which would still allow us to gain some information. Instead we gave out a questionnaire to ten students in our sixth form to see if they watch short films. We then  decided to go to Leicester Square where we can obtain more information about short films. We produced questionnaires which we will give out to young people as well as older people. Also, to make our research stronger we also decided we would conduct interviewers in order to back up our results for the questionnaires. This would also allow us to show differences or similarities within the different age groups.

Antigona and Silva