BFI Statistical yearbook 2014

BFI Statistical yearbook 2014

The table above presents the information about the genres that were released during 2013. The two films that I’m focusing on are the genres, Horror and Thriller. The horror genre had 37 releases which is about half of the 64 that were released as thrillers. However, the horror genre is more successful this is due to the gross box office that the horror genre created, this is £57.5 million, whereas the thriller genre created a gross box office of £29.1 million. This is a £28.4 million gross box office difference, this alone identifies the success of the horror genre and it shows Hollywood and studios where the money is being made out of the two. The most successful movie from the horror genre was World War Z, this could be because he has a A-list film star, Brad Pitt. Whereas the film that is representative of Thriller which is 'Prisoners' who's lead is Jake Gyllenhaal, who is also a large star however, it can be argued that he isn't as popular as Brad Pitt and this has had the effect on gross box office.

The other genre that is shown within this table, that is important to the film that I will participate in making is Romance, this is a genre that had 34 films made in this style the genre had a gross box office of £13.9 this although not as successful as the thriller or horror it is still successful, the film that is used to represent it is 'I Give It a Year' where the lead role is Rose Byrne who isn't as popular and known as Brad Pitt.

The table shows the number of films released with 2013. It shows us that the most popular film to be released was Sci-fi,with 422 sites at the widest point of release. The horror genre had 145 sites at the widest point of release, this shows that although it wasn't shown in as many places as Sci-fi it was still highly successful because the places it was shown the target audience lived around, for instance the films would be shown in cinemas that had older residents, this is because most of the residents would be able to watch the movie and therefore the site and the genre in that area will be successful and would be able to have the maximum amount box office sales as possible. The thriller genre was shown in 89 sites at the widest point of release, this is although significantly lower then horror it is still shown in areas where the film will get the most views and would catch the attention of the local residents, meaning that they will get the maximum amount of views and ticket sales as possible. For instance the area it may have a C1 or C2 demographic. 

The romance genre, is only slightly lower then the thriller genre, however is still successful in its own way, this is because with only 34 releases in that genre they were when in 59 sites at the widest point of release, this would suggest that similar to the thriller and horror genre, the genre was released in the point of intrigues across the country where the demographic consists of C1 and C2 social classification as it would allow the film to develop a greater box office sales.

The graph above presents the proportion of box office that each genre got. It shows us that the most successful genres are action,animation, biopic and comedy. The horror genre is particularly low in box office proportions, with the most successful being the UK horror films with 5.8% however the lowest being UK independent films with 0.3%. It also shows that the thriller genre isn't doing too well either with the most successful in that genre being the UK independent films that are produced with 2.7% with the lowest being 1.6% with the thriller films produced by UK films, this is a small gap and it suggests that this genre wasn't very successful in box office proportions. 

The romance genre was more successful then the thriller genre overall as it's most popular films were created as UK independent films with 8.1% of box office proportions.

The second graph presents to us the figure 4.2 proportion of releases by genre for all films, UK films and UK independent films in 2013. It shows to us that 5.3% of the films released in 2013,were horror films made in Hollywood and then only 4.9% were made as UK independent films. The graph also shows that 12. 2%of the films released were of the thriller genre and were created by UK film makers. The graph portrays that 9.2% of films were thriller movies made by Hollywood producers.
The romance genre was successful in the view of its proportions as it is 4.9% of the amount of films made, this percentage was for Hollywood producers only. The genre also earned 2.2% of the proportions of films, this was for UK producers only.