The document summarizes the results of a survey about thriller film preferences among 16-17 year olds. It finds that psychological and crime thrillers were most popular, while horror, sci-fi and dystopian were less so. Most respondents wanted to see a flawed protagonist and setting the film in modern times would be easiest. The survey also informed that characters should be established before story in the opening and fear was the preferred theme.

1. The amount of females and males will help us get an idea of what
genders want what for our thriller, for example the majority of survey
takers were female, therefore we can infer that the results of this survey
were influenced by female opinion.

2. • A large majority of survey takers were around the age of 16, this
means that the results from this poll shows what people aged 16
mainly want to see in a thriller film, and what a minority of 17
years olds want to see.

3. From this result we get to see a variety of
sub genre’s that are popular within 16
and 17 year olds. The top two were
Psychological and crime, which could
lead to us a group choosing to make a
thriller based on a flawed antagonist or
protagonist. The less popular were
Horror, Sci-Fi and Dystopian, meaning
that we will be reluctant on any ideas
that include these sub genre thrillers.
From this result we can take that our
target audience mainly want to see a
flawed hero or criminal within our
thriller, and avoid the use of a hopeful
teen or victim as the main character in
our thriller.

4. • Firstly, from question 5 we can
learn that a small majority of
people want to see a opening
sequence in a thriller film to
establish the character instead of
story, meaning we will take into
consideration of basing our
opening on the character and not
the story to appeal to our target
audience.
• Question 6 shows us as a group
that target audience wants to see
the theme of fear being used in
our thriller opening sequence with
a percentage of 41, whereas the
other films aren’t as popular, such
as love (6%), relationships, hate,
and jealousy (12%) We will
consider the use of revenge as it is
the second most popular by a thin
margin.

5. • The setting of the thriller being in the
woods is the most popular choice in
the poll, the second most popular is
the busy city setting which is more
practical. The least popular choice is
school. We will consider using the busy
city setting as the use woods is highly
overrated and will be easier to use
with the previous results.
• In this poll, a very popular film is the
most popular choice in our poll. This
results consists with over half the votes
(56%), meaning we will take the style
of production, aspects of thriller and
ways of creating tensions within the
film into consideration and may adopt
these into our thriller opening
sequence.

6. Question 9 has a variety of popular
periods for a thriller to be set in, ranging
from 2010’s (39%), Future (28%), 90s
(22%). The most popular setting is 2010s,
which is good for us as it will be easier to
do. The least popular period(s) was the
20s (6%), 80s (6%), and WW2 (0%).
Lastly, from this directors question we can
learn that Steven Spielberg is the favourite
among our favourite audience, with Denis
Villeneuve and Martin Scorsese not being
very popular. With this information we can
adopt techniques used by David Fincher
and Steven Spielberg in our opening
thriller sequence to enhance it to our
target audiences preference.