The document summarizes the responses from a pre-production questionnaire about thrilers. Key findings include:
1. Common fears included the dark, heights, fire, bugs, and the unknown.
2. What draws people to watch thrillers is the suspense, tension, realistic actors and creative storylines.
3. For the ideal thriller character, most saw them as evil-spirited or quiet with a wild side.
4. The ideal thriller location was seen as a graveyard, haunted house or library.
5. Respondents were split on whether thrillers should move at a slow or fast pace.
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2. What is your biggest fear? What makes
you scream?
Responses:
The dark
Heights
Fire
bugs
Fear of the unknown- the unpredictable turn nature can take.
Spiders
Graveyards- My thriller was in fact set in this location, to create an
ominous feeling.
Death
Closed spaces- claustrophobic. The abused victim in my thriller is in an
enclosed space.
Starter question
3. What makes you want to watch a
thriller?
Responses:
• Tense music, which compliments the action on screen- Most people felt that the
music of a thriller, often made them want to watch the film. Some people gave
reasons as to why they thought this:
The music generally adds to the tension.
Sound makes a great difference to thrillers and without them the audience wouldn’t
get shocks and scares.
• Suspense- most people wrote down suspense.
• Tension
• Realistic and good actors.
• Creative storyline- A lot of people wrote that the storyline is what essentially draws
them into watching a thriller.
4. 3.What are the characteristics of your
ideal main character?
Strong and
mighty- 5
Clever-0
quite with a
wild side-3
supernatural-7
evil spirited-
13
other-5
Note: 25 people answered the questionnaire, however they could choose more than one option. One of the
options was other. 5 people selected other and the characteristics they listed was:
threatening, dominant, adventurous.
There are two main characters in my thriller. One is the abuser (antagonist), who is evil spirited and the other is
the writer, who is quiet with a wild side.
5. What do you think is the ideal location
for a thriller?
Attic-3
Haunted house-
5
Graveyard-15
Library-5
Countryside-0
Mystical world-0
Desert-0
Most people answered graveyard, haunted house and library. I was particular interested
in the library location for my thriller to take place. However, no one gave permission to
film there. Therefore, I got consent to use a graveyard which was what majority of the
people answered.
6. Which pace do you prefer thrillers to
move at?
Slow paced-
12
Fast paced-13
7. Which kind of music would you
associate with a thriller?
Modern rock-0
Gothic-2
Classical-2
Orchestral-12
Distorted-9
Ethnic/ cultural-
0
8. 8. What do you think is a good title for our thriller? use words
like suspicious, imagine, mystery (your answers can also help you
with your ideas)
Suspicion
Missing
Mystical reality
Dark reality
Many people skipped this question
9. Which colours do you associate with
a thriller? (you can choose more than
one)
red-15
black-23
grey-10
white-1
green-0
yellow-0
10. Which is your favourite thriller movie?
Se7en
Ghost ship
Speed
The house of wax
Orphan