Thriller Questionnaire

I have created our Thriller Questionnaire after gathering information from our Audience Survey and given these out to twenty people, aged 15-19. This is our Questionnaire;

We found that our questionnaire gave us much better responses than our Audience Survey because there were more open questions, however some people were indecisive about their answers and often answered with ‘not sure’ or circled both. Some were also unsure of the difference between a ‘Crime Thriller’ and a ‘Psychological Thriller’ so we had to define this for them and they could have been influenced by us in their answers. Many said they preferred 18 rated films because it doesn’t restrict anything, however they said that 15 were just as good and more happy thrillers compared to horror thrillers. They said they do not expect to see blood and gore in the first two minutes of a Psychological Crime Thriller so we must build up the intensity of the thriller. They also said they prefer to have a female protagonist and a male antagonist which helps us decide our story line better. They prefer modern films in colour that are different and new, but they must include the classic themes of thrillers too.
They like thrillers to be set in a normal home where something happens that is unusual, not a woods which is normally associated with thrillers. Our audience also prefer films that get you thinking and have the end resolved because it is more entertaining. They associate suspense, twist and danger with a thriller and the opening should start with a flashback, so we need to include these points in our thriller to enthral our audience, and by starting our film with a flashback it opens up different paths to our ideas of thrillers. People don’t like the characters talking about their thoughts and feeling during the film and they associate the colours black, white and red in titles, this will help us make our titles sequence. Overall they said that their typical protagonist looks healthy, attractive and an everyday person, compared to the antagonist looking evil and scary or they could be anybody so you don’t suspect it.
The answers they gave us to their favourite thrillers and what the last watched means we can go away and look at what they enjoy to give us ideas to include in our thriller.
The bad points to our questionnaire were that we didn’t get full explanations to our questions so they were quite limiting but they were better questions than in our audience survey. We again could record a group discussion with 15 and 18 year olds and go into more depth.