Questionnaire analyse;

We decided that the best way to get to know what our target audience look for and enjoy in a thriller was to send a questionnaire out to a range of people, to then look at the results we collected and see the different ideas which our audiences have given us. We made our questionnaire using the website survey monkey which gives us a report of all the information which was collected from the different questions which we asked; we made the questionnaire and sent it out via email to 10 people  all of different age and genders this was to give us a board range of information from different groups. In this blog post I will be discussing the different ideas which the groups put forward and how we will use this information to adjust our thriller when making it.

    The first questions we asked was there age and gender this was to allow us to know what type of person was answering and what the different age groups and gender groups feel it also allows us to see the difference between the different groups. We had a good range of ages and genders with 4 males and 6 females and ages ranging from age groups 12-17 to 45-54; this shows us a large range of the people’s opinions. The main age group which we looked at was 12-17 this because we are looking to make our target audience to be teenagers so this is the most useful information to us.

The next set of question which we asked was whether the participant liked to go to the cinema this was to help us get to know whether the participant was a keen watcher of films and had seen a lot of different films or wasn’t very keen on going to the cinema. We found that 10/10 of the participants all liked to go to the cinema this was helpful to us as it meant that the participants may have watched a large range of the genres and films. We then went on to as how often they attend the cinema which will help us to get an idea of how many films they have watched in the last year and what their knowledge of films may be

    The next set of questions were asked about which genres the person enjoyed watching the most this was to find out a bit more about what films the audience watched we found that the most popular genre was rom-coms I feel a reasoning for this is because there was a higher percentage of women who were involved in this study and rom coms have a female based audience this is shown very clearly in the questionnaire people completed. Also it showed a high amount of people enjoyed watching thrillers this is very helpful to our data collection as it allows us to be ask real thrillers fans what they enjoy and expect to see from our 2 minutes’ clip.

    We then went on to ask our audience whether they enjoyed watching thrillers or not; we done this as we want to focus on this genre for our 2 minute clip so we needed to collect information from this genre. We found that 70% of the response we got liked thrillers and 30% didn’t we therefore will focus on the 70% of people who enjoy watching thrillers.

     After finding out a percentage of what people enjoyed watching thrillers we decided to go on and find out some more detailed information about what people look for in thrillers and what they feel a thriller should make them feel. We asked them ‘What do you expect from a Thriller?’ we then got written responses which allowed u to really get to know what audiences want from a thriller one of the main responses we got was for the storyline to be very grabbing and to make the audience stay in tune to the whole film and for the storyline to make the audience want to watch the whole film rather than get bored and switch it off. Another key idea which the audience put forward was the idea that it should make them jump and scared this is seen as a key convention of thrillers therefore I plan to make this effect on the audience when I make me 2 minute clip. The storyline also seems to be a key idea which the response seemed to care about.

    The next question which we asked was ‘What is your favourite thing about a Thriller?’ this was to see what the audience enjoy about this genre and to allow the audiences to express their opinions about thrillers. This information is a key part of our research as it will help us to be able to caterer our thriller to what people enjoy watching. We found that the most mentioned thing about thrillers was the most is the twists which are unexpected this is something which we are planning to include in our 2 minute clip.

    The next questions I asked what feature they expected to see from the different the main thing which was mentioned was the costume and props are very important in the film and help to add tension to the scenes and we also found that the setting was very important.

    The last question we asked was ‘How much of the plot in the opening of a Thriller should be revealed?’ this was to find out the plot is very important with 90 % of the audience saying that this was an important part to the thriller we will therefore make sure that the plot is very well thought out our opening.