Analysis of 4 questionnaires

1. Analysing my Film Production
Questionnaire
• My first question simply asked ‘what is your most favourite aspect in a thriller film?’. From this I
wanted to try and see what aspect from the mystery, to the discovery or to the not knowing,
audiences like to have in a thriller. My most popular was the not knowing aspect. This could be
because they like the whole aspect of not knowing whats going to happen, and not knowing what
a certain object is.This would help me in my designs because when it comes down to creating the
trailer, I know what aspects to involve, I’ll use different enigma codes to create the not knowing
feel.
• My second question was more focusing on film magazine. My question asked: ‘What elements
from a thriller film would you include in a magazine cover?’. I thought that this would help me
when designing my magazine cover because I would have some input from what audience
members would like to see.The main answer/element that they all wanted was having the
character on the front. One person said story line but I broke it down I will use a scene from the
film as a background for the character. This could be for reasons that they don’t specifically no
many aspects of magazine covers, and all that they know is that they should involve the main
character, but this still helps me when designing because now I know that is what the audience
want to see.
• My third question aimed at the poster. The question was: ‘Out of these 3 film posters (Super 8,
Se7en and StarTrek Into Darkness),which style would encourage you to go and see the film,
without seeing the trailer? Why?’. I thought that I would find out from the audience themselves
what type of style I should go for when designing my own poster.The majority went for the Super
8 poster and then a vote each for the other two.This can be because they like the look of it and
some put that it looks more mysterious than the other two.This can help me when designing
because I can get inspiration from the poster because I know that the Super 8 poster is a good
example.

2.  My fourth question was one of most simplest one. It ask; ‘who would you prefer to be the lead in
a thriller film?’. 100% of the votes went for male. Possibly for the aspect that that is what they are
use to. So I ask this mainly to see who I should cast.
 My fifth question was focusing on the costumes of the character. It stated; ‘what costume would
you associate with a male lead role in a thriller?’ I asked this because I was hoping it would help
me in the costume choices for the characters and it has. They all seemed to want dark colours for
the costumes to try and give it that mystery element.
 My sixth question was looking at colour schemes for posters. I asked; ‘what colour scheme would
you associate ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ for a magazine cover?’. For this I thought it would help me
try to decide what kind of colours I should go for when designing a poster, because my genre is sci-
fi and that Star Trek is that genre. The majority all wanted dark colours because it adds to the
mystery.
 My seventh question linked with the sixth question because it would help to try and see if the
colour scheme they named would encourage them to buy the magazine itself. They all answered
yes because they said it would stand out from others if the dark colours were mixed with some
bolder colours.
 My eighth question was about the movie poster ‘Shutter Island’, from this question I wanted to
see how well they rated its design in showing that it is a thriller film. ‘On a scale of 1 being the
least, and 5 being the most, how would the film poster for ‘Shutter Island’ make you want to see
the film and to know that it is a thriller genre?’. 100% of the answers were 4, which tells me that a
poster design like Shutter Island is a good approach.
Analysing my Film Production
Questionnaire

3. • My ninth question states; ‘how much of a film storyline should be revealed in its trailer? Why?’.
This helped me decide how much of my films storyline I should reveal in the trailer. All said not to
much, probably said this to keep the mystery and not give to much of the film away.
• My tenth and final question was simply a rating on thriller films as a genre. ‘How would you rate
the genre thriller as a whole with 1 being the worst genre, and 5 being your favourite?’. 3 people
rated it as 5 and then 1 rated it 4.This tells me that doing a thriller genre film was good because
people like it.
Analysing my Film Production
Questionnaire