Section 4: Audience Research

Questionnaire

1. How old are you?

Under 15     15-18    19-21    22+

2. Are you male or female?

Male    female

3. Do you watch thrillers often?

Yes No

4. What is your favourite type of thriller?

Supernatural  crime      disaster psychological other

5. What do you think builds suspense most effectively in a thriller; if other what do you think is the most effective?

Sound/music    lighting   setting    characters    other

6. Which font do you most associate with a thriller?

Thriller thriller thriller thriller thriller

7. Where do you prefer thrillers to be set?

Indoors outdoors

8. Would you prefer the hero to be male or female?

Male female

9. Would you prefer the villain to be male or female?

Male female

10. Do you like not being able to guess what’s going to happen?

Yes No

11. Do you like thrillers to have a realistic/believable story?

Yes No

12. Do you like thrillers to be more psychological and story based, or more based around action?

Story Action Either

13. Do you like the hero to be an ‘ordinary’ person?

Yes No

14. Do you like the villain to be an ‘ordinary’ person?

Yes No

15. Do you like there to be more than one hero?

Yes No

16. Do you like there to be more than one villain?

Yes No

17. Would you like the villain to stay alive?

Yes No

18. Would you like the hero to stay alive?

Yes No

19. Do you like cliff-hanger endings?

Yes No

20. Would you watch a film about kidnap?

Yes No Maybe

Questionnaire Results

1.                                                             Are you Male or Female?

This shows that most people interviewed were male, so it will gender biased

2.
                                                         How old are you?

This is a chart to show the age of the people we interviewed. This clearly shows that most people asked were of age 15-18, so it will be quite biased towards that age group.

3.                                                     Do you watch thrillers often?

This shows that most people asked do watch thrillers often, which mean the results, will be more effective as they know what is in a thriller and will probably be right for questions like things about creating tension.

4.                                               What Sub-thriller genre do you prefer?

This shows that most of the people asked prefer supernatural thrillers, but we can’t base ours on supernatural things as it would be too complicated. However, most of the others prefer psychological, so ours will be psychological

5.                                         What builds suspense most effectively?

                                           

This shows that most people asked think that sound and music build suspense most effectively, so when editing and filming, we will try and use sound to build tension and suspense.

6.                                              What font do you associate with a thriller?

This shows that most people prefer the font ‘Pulse Sans’, so we will either use this font or one similar to it.

7.                                                       Where do you prefer thrillers to be set?

Most people said they would prefer thrillers to be set outdoors as it creates a more tense atmosphere, our thriller will be set in and out of doors so it will please all of the target audience.

15.              Do you like there to be more than one hero?

The people we asked in the survey were divided by this questions and 15 people wanted there to be more than one hero but another 15 people didn’t want there to be more than one hero, therefore we will have to decide rather than taking the opinion of the target audience.

16.                            Do you like there to be more than one Villian?

Most people said they would like there to be more than one villian in the thriller this is largely due to the fact it wil create more suspense.

17.                                   Would you like the Villian to stay alive?

When we asked this question there was divided answers and only 5 people wanted the Villain to die, this is unlike most target audience and they mainly want the Villain to die that the end of the film.

18.                    Would you like the hero to stay alive?

The people we asked this question to, mainly wanted the hero to stay alive this is largely due to the fact the hero would be the main character and in films the main character rarely dies.

19.                                      Do you like cliffhanger endings?

The majority of people we asked didn’t like cliffhanger endings because they sometimes don’t like waiting for the sequel to be released as it is normally a long amount of period they have to wait.




20.                                       Would you watch a film about Kidnap?

The majority of people we asked would watch a thriller about kidnap as a thriller set around kidnap, is full of twist, turns, suspense and you never know whats coming next.