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The bar-chart illustrates changes in the production and ticket sales of four types of films in one European country in the years 1996 and 2000. Overall, both the release of as well as the sales of tickets for drama, comedy and fantasy films increased in 1996 as opposed to romance movies whose production remained unchanged and ticket sales declined.
In terms of production, drama and comedy movies exhibited significantly higher rates than the other two. Drama led the pack with 25% of the movies released in 1996 being of that genre, and this figure increased to 35% 4 years later. Comedy movies followed closely behind with 20% intially- a figure that then rose by 5 percentage points. By contrast, much lower percentage of movies released in this period were fantasy and romance. The former’s figure stood at around 17% before rising to just over 15%. Romance films, however, bucked the foregoin trend as their production did not change at only 5%.
A somewhat different pattern can be observed in the sales of tickets. Comedy movies were the most popular with 20% of tickets sold belonging to this genre and this rate rose even further to 23%. Drama movies, despite having the highest prodiction rate, remained in the second position in the sale of tickets at about 15% with an insignificant increase. The remaining two types of movies also recorded much lower figures in ticket sales at below the 6% mark with a rise in the former and a fall in the latter.
The bar-chart illustrates changes in the production and ticket sales of four types of films in one European country in the years 1996 and 2000. Overall, both the release of as well as the sales of tickets for drama, comedy and fantasy films increased in 1996 as opposed to romance movies whose production remained unchanged and ticket sales declined.
In terms of production, drama and comedy movies exhibited significantly higher rates than the other two. Drama led the pack with 25% of the movies released in 1996 being of that genre, and this figure increased to 35% 4 years later. Comedy movies followed closely behind with 20% intially- a figure that then rose by 5 percentage points. By contrast, much lower percentage of movies released in this period were fantasy and romance. The former’s figure stood at around 17% before rising to just over 15%. Romance films, however, bucked the foregoin trend as their production did not change at only 5%.
A somewhat different pattern can be observed in the sales of tickets. Comedy movies were the most popular with 20% of tickets sold belonging to this genre and this rate rose even further to 23%. Drama movies, despite having the highest prodiction rate, remained in the second position in the sale of tickets at about 15% with an insignificant increase. The remaining two types of movies also recorded much lower figures in ticket sales at below the 6% mark with a rise in the former and a fall in the latter.