The document summarizes the results of a survey about what people expect from a thriller opening. It shows that Inception and The Dark Knight were the most popular thriller films. A psychological thriller was the most popular subgenre. People found paranormal things the most frightening element. For the opening, people preferred a flashback over everyday events or present time. Most wanted very little of the plot revealed rather than a lot or none at all.

2. The purpose of this questionnaire
is to help me establish a target
audience and to find out what
kind of things people would
expect from a thriller opening.

3. The chart on age shows that I
mainly asked 10 to 20 year olds.
AGE But I did try to ask more people.
10 to 20 years
21 to 20 years
31 to 40 years
41 to 50 years
Gender
I tried to ask the same amount of
males and females to get a fair
view.
Male
Female

4.  The Dark Knight
 Inception
 Psycho
 Exorcist
 Black Swan
 Sucker Punch
 Other

5. Favourite thriller film
The Dark Knight
Black Swan
Exorcist
Psycho
Favourite thriller film
Sucker Punch
Inception
Other
0 2 4 6 8

6. From the bar chart you can see that
the most popular thriller film is
Inception, with The Dark Knight
second. The least popular from this
are Black Swan and Sucker Punch.
From the results of this question I can
make sure that when I do my textual
analysis I watch Inception and The
Dark Knight.

7.  Psychological
 Horror
 Political
 Action
 Crime
 Sci-fi
 Drama
 Disaster
 Spy

8. Thriller sub-genres
Sci-fi
Drama
Disaster
Spy
Psychological
Horror
Political
Action
Crime

9. From the chart you can see that the
most popular sub-genre is a
psychological thriller. This may be
because they might like the mind
games a psychological thriller plays on
you. The least popular thriller sub-
genres are crime and horror. From this
question I know that I should create a
psychological thriller opening because
it is the most popular.

10. Murders
Paranormal things
Sudden shocks
Violence
Gore

11. 8
7
6
5
Frightening
4
things
3
2
1
0

12. From the par chart you cans see that
thing that frightens most people in a
thriller film are paranormal things.
The least popular is gore, so I will
make sure that I don’t include gore in
my opening. However I will try to
include some paranormal stuff as it is
the most popular.

13. Chase scene
Flash-back
Flash-forward
Present time
Everyday life

14. Thriller opening
Chase scene
Flash-back
Flash-forward
Present time
Everyday life

15. From the chart you can see that the
most popular is a flash-back and
everyday life second. The least
popular in present time. From what
people have said I will try to include a
flash-back in the opening of my film
to make it more thrilling.

16. A lot
Very little
None of it

17. Revealing of the plot
A lot
Very little
None of it

18. From the chart you can see that most
popular is very little and the lease
popular is a lot. This shows that most
people don’t want the whole plot to
be revealed in the opening as it could
ruin the film. But they still want some
of it to be revealed.