This document contains the results of various audience data analyses and surveys conducted by the author to inform their thriller film opening sequence. The analyses covered topics like preferred genres, suitable atmospheres or settings, types of openings, use of music or sound, and elements audiences like in thrillers. The author indicated they would review the results, look for common preferences, and try to incorporate suitable elements into their own opening while developing their own ideas. They acknowledged some responses were not useful or had varied answers, so manual filtering would be needed.

1. Audience data analysis

2. This response shows that my
audience would be more
interested in crime and
philological thrillers because
most of the responses were
in these to categories but
there were also some for
action thrillers but it was
still marginally less than
crime and thriller. And the
two least chosen responses
are religious which had no
responses which and
science-fiction thrillers, this
signifies to me that I should
not take this direction when
choosing my subgenre for
my opening sequence, and
should go more in the
direction of the of crime and
philological thrillers.

3. This shows that the
atmosphere of a cinema is
more suitable for a thriller
rather than the home, as it
can bring a better experience
to the viewer as the cinema
can bring a more detailed and
up-close experience to the
viewer as the cinemas sound
quality and dim lighting is
much better than a bright
house hold as the whole point
of a thriller is to scare the
audience.
thriller

4. This response shows me that my
audience may like to see a gory
opening or a death in the opening
as they both have 44.44% of
responses. But a psychological
opening and a insight into the
protagonists life aren't too far
behind as they are each at 33.33%
so I may use parts of this in my
opening also. And the choices that
got the least responses were a
placid opening and having the
ending as a flash forward so I will
most likely not chose these ones in
the opening.

5. The main story line which
was chose by the audience
was reference to haunted
houses I believe I will you
this kind of storyline in my
opening even though its
slightly cliché, and I'm not
really sure I would use any
of the others because their
responses were so low.
And instead I will create
my own ideas.

6. This data is really not too useful to me as it does
not help my research at all and I have to look
through these results to see if there is anything I
can compile from these results so that I can see
if I can use any elements from some of these
films in my filming to try and make my film
more well received by audiences.

7. These results indicate to me
that voice overs used in
movies are starting to
become ‘’overused’’ and can
become ‘’tacky’’ as a result
to audiences but this isn’t
saying to me that voiceovers
are not well received by
audiences only that they are
sometimes overused in films.
But most of the other
comments I received about
of these responses being
negative

8. This is a decisive response
as its 60% to 40% ,
however it’s a yes or no
question and I failed to
put a middle ground
which is a blunder of
mine. But I may use found
footage elements in my
production but I will not
go down this route when
filming as it does not
allow for me to do enough
variation with the types of
shots I could do when
filming.

9. As a result of
these results I will
must likely use
music in my
opening sequence.
To create a
atmosphere for
the audience
whilst they are
watching. But
conversely not
using non-diegetic
sounds(like music)
but instead using
diegetic sounds
can also have an
effect on the
audience and
create atmosphere
as well.

10. Varied responses, I will sift through these
manually and pick and chose the components
that I desire for my opening. Will also see if
there are any correlations in the responses
and if so will focus on these more in the
creating or the main character in the
production of my film.

11. What do you like to see in a thriller movie??
These response are
telling me what my
target audience would
like to see in my genre of
film I will look through all
of these responses and
see if there are any
recurring results, if so
then these responses will
be reviewed to see I can
include them in my
production but if not I
will use the ones that I
can fit in my production
and try implement them.

12. Target audience profile