The document analyzes the results of a questionnaire about thrillers given to an audience. It found that psychological thrillers set in abandoned houses with eerie music were generally preferred. Most respondents were in the 16-21 age range and watched 15-rated films. This informed the team's decision to create a 15-rated psychological thriller opening set in an abandoned house/shed about a weird pedophile to engage their target audience.

1. QUESTIONNAIRE ANALYSIS
By Ryan Smith

3. We handed out questionnaire’s to people to see what they liked about thrillers. We did this to
research thrillers and try to make our thriller opening as good as possible. The questionnaire
helped us choose our target audience and the genre of thriller we are going to use.

4. QUESTION 1 – WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT A THRILLER TO BE
ABOUT.
• For question 1 the answers were roughly the same. Most people’s answers said
a good thriller should build tension and suspense and keep you on the edge of
your seat through out the whole film. It should also make you wonder what's
going to happen next and make the audience asked questions about what's
happening. It should have a good plot twist which may confuse the audience.
Some other answers said that a thriller should include a protagonist and an
antagonist. Lastly it should keep the viewer asking questions until the end where
the plot is revealed and everything makes sense.

5. QUESTION 2 – WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF GENRE?
• tick box – horror, comedy, romance, thriller, sci-fi or other
• From our questionnaire we found that the favourite genre was thriller with
other half of our participants saying thriller. Then comedy, followed by
horror, sci-fi, psychological and no-one we asked answered romance.
Showing a horror thriller would be a good genre to use, and that no-one
would like a romantic thriller. We have chosen to use a psychological
thriller, as we think that it is the most effective genre and the easiest to
express.

6. QUESTION 3 – WHAT DO YOU THINK THE BEST LOCATION OF
A THRILLER WOULD BE?
• Tick box – Abandoned House, Beach, Forest, Inner City and Other (please
state)
• The answers we got for this question were mixed between abandoned house
and forest. We chose to do it in a shed and a house going with the theme of
abandoned house as this was the most liked by the people that filled out our
questionnaire.
Location
Abandoned House
Beach
Forest
Inner City

7. QUESTION 4 – WHAT MUSIC BEST SUITS A THRILLER?
• R&B, Fast, Classical, Eerie, Hip-hop or other.
• This question was obvious to what the answer would be but we though we
should check anyway. We are going to use eerie and creepy music and
sudden sounds in our thriller to make it more jumpy and keep the audience
on the edge of their seats.
Music
R&B
Fast
Classical
Eerie Music
Other

8. QUESTION 5 – HOW OFTEN DO YOU VISIT THE CINEMA?
• Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.
• We asked this to see how often our participants visit the cinema to know if
they like films and if they pay to watch them.
Cinema
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly

9. QUESTION 6 – WHAT AGE GROUP ARE YOU IN?
• -10 years, 10-15 years, 16-21 years, 22-30 years, 30-50 years, 51-70
years, 71+
• We asked people for their age so we know what age group go to the cinema and
watch films, as were aiming our thriller opening to be a 15 rating, we asked
more 16-21 year olds. This is because they visit the cinema most often and
spend the most money on films.
Age
Under 10
10 to 15
16 to 21
22 to 30
31 to 50
51 to 70

10. QUESTION 7 – WHAT AGE RATING OF A FILM DO YOU WATCH
THE MOST?
• U, PG, 12A, 12, 15, 18
• We asked this question to see what people watched the most to help us
decide the age rating of our film. We were thinking about a 12a but most
people watch 15’s so we decided to make our thriller a 15.
Age Rating
U
PG
12A
12
15
18

11. QUESTION 8 – IF YOU WERE TO MAKE A THRILLER, WHAT
WOULD IT BE ABOUT.
• There were many different answers to this ranging across the different sub-
genres. Most of the answers were to do with murder and suspense. For it to
be jumpy and mysterious. With a psycho as the villain and an average
person as the hero. One we liked was about betrayal and revenge between
to antagonist and protagonist. The best response was about a weird
paedophile and we have decided to use this as our idea for our opening but
elaborate on the paedophile idea.

12. QUESTION 9 – LIST 3 THINGS YOU FIND SCARY IN A
HORROR THRILLER?
• We got many answers to this including; murder; darkness; blood; fear; jumpy
scenes; paranormal; tense music; remote locations and many more, we have
tried to make our opening include as many of these as possible to make our
thriller as good as we can but its hard to get them all in.

13. QUESTION 10 – WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF
THRILLER? (E.G. PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER)
• People could choose their own answer for this and with psychological being the most
popular we have decided to make our opening a psychological thriller. This will make the
film more popular and give a better target audience.
Sub-Genre
Psychological
Horror
Action