Audience Survey Research

We are going to create a questionaire for our thriller research, but before we create the survey, we had a group discussion with 5-10 people to find out what questions we could include in our questionnaire and to find out to what depth we needed to go into, these questions were ;

1. What do you expect in a 15/18 film? 
2. What is your favourite type of thriller film- horror, crime, psychological, drama, romance etc? 
3. What do you like your film to be set? 
4. Do you get bored of watching the same thing? 
5. Do you prefer black and white films or colour? 
6. What type of music do you like in thriller films? 
7. Do you like films to have a slow introduction, quick introduction or a film that unravels throughout?

These questions briefly gave us an idea that our thriller was to be a crime or psychological thriller because this was the most popular in out target audience. We also discovered that the 15 or 18 age rating was very similar to our audience, so we need to go into more depth in out questionnaire to get a solid answer. The locations to a thriller were very broad and got different answers, so we may have to restrict this when writing out questionnaire. Most people prefer colour films and tense music so we need to stick to the traditions of thriller movies, however people did answer question 4 saying that they got bored of the same thing and prefer new material. Our particpants also said they preferred a film that unravels, so in our opening we musn't give too much away, but be able to grip the audience into wanting to watch more.
By completing this survey, it showed us that we need to go into much more depth with our questions so we can get some clear, precise answers that will really help us with making the movie and coming up with ideas because the answers we got were too limiting. We could also film a group discussion to be able to record every detail said.