The document summarizes the findings of a questionnaire given to students aged 16-18 about psychological thrillers. It found that most respondents were female and enjoyed drama/rom-com films. Action and horror were most popular among male respondents. Most would prefer to watch films on DVD. The film being created will take place in a school and include characters like strange men or psychopaths and storylines involving murder, kidnapping, or twists.

1. Questionnaire
Findings

2. On the following two
slides, the questions
we asked in our
questionnaire are
displayed.

3. 1) Which age group do you fit into?
12-15 16-18 19-25 26+
2) Which gender are you?
Male Female
3) What is your favorite genre of film?
Action/Adventure Thriller Horror Rom-Com Drama
4) How do you usually watch films?
Cinema DVD Online Streaming
5) What is the first word that comes to your head when
you think of a psychological thriller?

4. 6) What films come to mind when you think of a
psychological thriller?
7) What type of storyline do you expect from a
psychological thriller?
8) Where would you expect a psychological thriller to
be set?
Countryside Inner City Small Village School
9) What type of characters do you expect from a
psychological thriller?

5. All of our responses were from students in the 16-18
age range, this is our main target market.

6. We had 3 male respondents and 10 female
respondents. This could create slight bias in the results,
however we did not think this would affect our results
because of the types of questions we were asking.

7. All male respondents said their favourite film genre was
action/adventure or horror. Female respondents chose
a mix of answers, half of them chose drama/rom-com,
and the other half chose horror/thriller films.

8. From these responses we could gather that if we were
to actually release this film it should definitely be
distributed on DVD.

9. We have opted to locate our film in a school because it is
easily accessible to us as well as the fact that the school
environment is a common ground for bullying which is a
major part of our film.

10. Some examples of characters our respondents expected
to see in a psychological thriller were as follows:
• Strange men
• Creepy/haunted children
• Psychopath
• People with psychological disorders (eg: schizophrenia)
• People talking to themselves
• Hero/heroin
• Murderer and allies
• Vulnerable person
• People on drugs

11. Some examples of storylines our respondents
expected to see in a psychological thriller were as
follows:
• Psychopath goes around torturing/killing people
• Kidnapping
• Chase
• Murder/death
• Person murders/attacks friends/enemies
• Twist in the storyline at the end
• Stalkers