2. Are You Male or Female?
Are You Male or Female?
I asked for the audiences 10
gender as this can sometimes 9
8
be a big impact on 7
preferences, especially in No. of People 6
5
something like a thriller with 4
3
devices trying to evoke 2
emotions. 1
0
Male Femal
3. How Old Are You?
Age of the audience is another How old are you?
important factor when 0% 0% 0%
considering thrillers, as some 7%
may be 15yrs and others 7% Under 10
18yrs, the content is clearly not 11 to 20
aimed for children or you 14% 43% 21 to 30
31 to 40
teens. Yet, out of the adult
41 to 50
population it is younger 51 to 60
adults, the under thirties, with 61 +
29%
the biggest section of the pie
chart.
4. How Often do You Watch Thrillers?
By asking the audience how
often the watched thrillers I How Often do You Watch Thrillers?
would be able to judge if they 8
would have a good 7
6
No. Of People
understanding of conventions 5 Never
4
and would be able to give 3 Once a year
reliable information for the 2 Once a Month
1
other questions. The data 0
Once a Week
Everyday
suggests that I the audience Never Once a Once a Once a Everyday
year Month Week
would have a good Time
understanding as they thrillers
frequently.
5. Action Thrillers or Psychological
Thrillers
When deciding on the thriller, it Do You Prefer Action Thrillers or
was clear it would either be a Psychological Thrillers?
action or psychological Thriller.
Although I am aware there are
other sub genres; horror and
comedy to name a couple, it was 36%
Action Thrillers
these two that interested me. Psychological Thrillers
From the date it is obvious that 64%
physiological thrillers were the
favourite.
6. Do You Expect to See Violence?
This is a crucial insight in Do You Expect to See Violence?
14
what the audience expect
12
from a thriller, and
10
although most preferred No. of People
8
the psychological thriller 6
they still expect to see 4
some violence. 2
0
Yes No
7. Preferred Props
With there a high chance
of violence being in the Which prop do you think is most
thriller, it was important suited to a thriller film, for a murder
to get the audience or violent scene?
expectation of what type 0%
of prop would be used. 7%
7%
Gun
The data shows a knife or Saw
Knife
crow-bar being the 57% 29%
Crow-bar/Metal pole
highest. This is great as None
the crow-bar will fit in well
with the grimy mise en
scene we were thinking of
creating.
8. Conclusion
The data that I have collected has be hugely helpful in the
planning of the thriller conventions that we have decided to
use, coupling the results with the results from other group
members strengthens the findings. As Lewis also found that
the audience prefer psychological thrillers, and expect to see
violence. Lewis also asked a question I didn’t ‘Which of the
following themes do you find most enigmatic?’ The top
answers from this question were paranoia and terrorism.
Next we will see how suitable the finding our to our original
idea, and whether it will work to the general audience
expectations of thriller videos.
