Post by Christine21 on Aug 1, 2004 17:53:46 GMT -5
Hi „Friends“-Fans,
you send tons of filled-in questionnaires, that´s why I don´t want to let you down with regards to the results. Obviously numbers are pretty boring, therefore I tried to sum up the most important (interesting?) facts for you to read.
When I began analysing your answers, I actually planned to split the results into German and international participants, but soon enough I found out that you all quite think the same, no matter where you´re from (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Great Britain, France, Russia…..and the list goes on). So you see, the results are definitely representative.
85% of all participants are female, therefore (of course) only 15% are male, but this is typical of all kinds of serials.
About 20% of you are younger than 20; a third between 20 and 30 years old, everybody left older than 30 – again, you carry out expectations.
25% started watching “Friends” during the first season, throughout the following years about the same number of people joined in every season, although not too many newcomers joined in the last two or three years.
Pretty amazing – 93% watch every episode of “Friends”, and in addition to that a lot of you told me they own DVDs. This is a great thing- especially for all the foreign (outside US) Fans, because the DVDs include the original version in English. Translating dialogues, some lines of course have to be changed (movement of lips matches German/French/whatever sound), so you can imagine a lot (jokes, idiomatic expressions…) getting lost.
Hardly anyone watches „Friends“ because of a certain actor/actress, 95% simply like the show in general. Therefore about 85% are planning to watch “Joey”; even more in the US, since foreign channels have not yet decided whether they´re going to show it.
Same thing with the next question: 90% of you have never met any of the actors in the flesh – no matter which country you´re from. That´s no surprise, anyway, it gets more difficult to get close to the fans the more famous you´re becoming.
Talking about the show´s image, you more or less agree: 84% think of “Friends” as a rather realistic show, and some of you added, that there are of course certain scenes/dialogues…which do not happen in everyday-life, but we should not forget that it IS a tv-show and not a documentary.
96% of you are convinced that the six actors are friends in real life. I´m not going to go into details regarding the actors´ image- analysis I did…too boring for you.
All six actors are quite of the same importance to the show, whether we think of the plot itself or the time we see a certain character on screen. But nevertheless, 66% (!!) would choose Jennifer Aniston as an interview partner, second place Matthew Perry with at least 16%.
Lisa, Courtney, David and Matt share about the same number of votes.
Something struck me while taking down the results: I asked you about things you´d like to ask your favorite interview partner. Almost every question you would like to be answered focuses on the actors´ careers, future plans … that is: professional territory. Hardly anyone asked about the actors´ private lifes. So HERE, “Friends”-Fans obviously differ from fans of other shows. As you perhaps know, I also analysed a German Daily Soap and dealt with serial theories in general… you really surprised me, congratulations.
I listed three concepts for new serials and asked you to choose your favorite.
50% of you would like to watch the New York Single-Parties including the sisters´ /best friends´ rivalry, about 30% preferred the Berlin “fashionbattle” of cinderella and the “rich girl” and 20% are interested in the American political thriller.
As I talked to a lot of „Friends“-Fans before I started working on it, I already heard of Jennifer Aniston being the “favorite friend”. Therefore I chose her for the last question, I could also have chosen Courtney or Lisa or (ok, changes necessary then) the guys.
Anyway, that last one was about a certain actor you got used to in a certain role – and the question whether it is possible to imagine that actor in a different context.
So if we compare “Friends” to the three new serials, A (New York, Café, friends…) is definitely the closest one to the original. So as you see, half of you would like to see Jennifer Aniston acting in a show which is -at least to a certain extent- rather similar to the show you know her from.
So, Jennifer Aniston being an actress of your favorite show, you of course chose her to play the most important character. This way, the numbers also tell how easy it was for you to find out which role IS the most important one in the different concepts. And that was clearly easy to tell:
Talking about serial A, 70% of you would like to watch Jennifer playing Andrea, who gets the whole thing started. When it comes to serial B (Berlin) 75% would ask Jennifer to be Mandy. As serial C is a kind of detective story, the detective is (since we don´t know the criminal yet) obviously the most important part in the story, therefore 60% suggested Carrie to be played by Jennifer.
This is it, as far as the numbers go. If anyone of you would like to answer questions, tell me something important or … whatever; you can of course still mail via
“friends_for_university@yahoo.de” and I´ll see what I can do…
Thank you again SO MUCH for all your support up to this point,
best wishes from Hamburg, Christine
you send tons of filled-in questionnaires, that´s why I don´t want to let you down with regards to the results. Obviously numbers are pretty boring, therefore I tried to sum up the most important (interesting?) facts for you to read.
When I began analysing your answers, I actually planned to split the results into German and international participants, but soon enough I found out that you all quite think the same, no matter where you´re from (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Great Britain, France, Russia…..and the list goes on). So you see, the results are definitely representative.
85% of all participants are female, therefore (of course) only 15% are male, but this is typical of all kinds of serials.
About 20% of you are younger than 20; a third between 20 and 30 years old, everybody left older than 30 – again, you carry out expectations.
25% started watching “Friends” during the first season, throughout the following years about the same number of people joined in every season, although not too many newcomers joined in the last two or three years.
Pretty amazing – 93% watch every episode of “Friends”, and in addition to that a lot of you told me they own DVDs. This is a great thing- especially for all the foreign (outside US) Fans, because the DVDs include the original version in English. Translating dialogues, some lines of course have to be changed (movement of lips matches German/French/whatever sound), so you can imagine a lot (jokes, idiomatic expressions…) getting lost.
Hardly anyone watches „Friends“ because of a certain actor/actress, 95% simply like the show in general. Therefore about 85% are planning to watch “Joey”; even more in the US, since foreign channels have not yet decided whether they´re going to show it.
Same thing with the next question: 90% of you have never met any of the actors in the flesh – no matter which country you´re from. That´s no surprise, anyway, it gets more difficult to get close to the fans the more famous you´re becoming.
Talking about the show´s image, you more or less agree: 84% think of “Friends” as a rather realistic show, and some of you added, that there are of course certain scenes/dialogues…which do not happen in everyday-life, but we should not forget that it IS a tv-show and not a documentary.
96% of you are convinced that the six actors are friends in real life. I´m not going to go into details regarding the actors´ image- analysis I did…too boring for you.
All six actors are quite of the same importance to the show, whether we think of the plot itself or the time we see a certain character on screen. But nevertheless, 66% (!!) would choose Jennifer Aniston as an interview partner, second place Matthew Perry with at least 16%.
Lisa, Courtney, David and Matt share about the same number of votes.
Something struck me while taking down the results: I asked you about things you´d like to ask your favorite interview partner. Almost every question you would like to be answered focuses on the actors´ careers, future plans … that is: professional territory.
Hardly anyone asked about the actors´ private lifes. So HERE, “Friends”-Fans obviously differ from fans of other shows. As you perhaps know, I also analysed a German Daily Soap and dealt with serial theories in general… you really surprised me, congratulations.I listed three concepts for new serials and asked you to choose your favorite.
50% of you would like to watch the New York Single-Parties including the sisters´ /best friends´ rivalry, about 30% preferred the Berlin “fashionbattle” of cinderella and the “rich girl” and 20% are interested in the American political thriller.
As I talked to a lot of „Friends“-Fans before I started working on it, I already heard of Jennifer Aniston being the “favorite friend”. Therefore I chose her for the last question, I could also have chosen Courtney or Lisa or (ok, changes necessary then) the guys.
Anyway, that last one was about a certain actor you got used to in a certain role – and the question whether it is possible to imagine that actor in a different context.
So if we compare “Friends” to the three new serials, A (New York, Café, friends…) is definitely the closest one to the original. So as you see, half of you would like to see Jennifer Aniston acting in a show which is -at least to a certain extent- rather similar to the show you know her from.
So, Jennifer Aniston being an actress of your favorite show, you of course chose her to play the most important character. This way, the numbers also tell how easy it was for you to find out which role IS the most important one in the different concepts. And that was clearly easy to tell:
Talking about serial A, 70% of you would like to watch Jennifer playing Andrea, who gets the whole thing started. When it comes to serial B (Berlin) 75% would ask Jennifer to be Mandy. As serial C is a kind of detective story, the detective is (since we don´t know the criminal yet) obviously the most important part in the story, therefore 60% suggested Carrie to be played by Jennifer.
This is it, as far as the numbers go. If anyone of you would like to answer questions, tell me something important or … whatever; you can of course still mail via
“friends_for_university@yahoo.de” and I´ll see what I can do…
Thank you again SO MUCH for all your support up to this point,
best wishes from Hamburg, Christine
....and som of them won a set visit??? wow!! 
by soz