Media

1. Purpose of this questionnaire
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This questionnaire consisted 10 short
questions, which enabled me to identify and
appeal to my target market by conducting a
research into what draws them. The use of
different age groups helped me to know
specifically what my target age group wants
without making it obvious to other age groups
I questioned.

2. Are you male or female?
This questionnaire appealed both to male(blue) and female(pink) equally as horror
movies is seen to be a uni-sex genre that is neither a female or male genre. Also,
the equal of these two genders will help us figure out what is needed for our
thriller opening sequence more prominently as it's not bias.

3. How old are you?
This questionnaire attracted my age group, which is 15-19, than other age markets
more significantly. So, the results I was given will be more accurate to what my
project will have to appeal to that specific age market. But having other age
markets conducting the questionnaire will also give me a rough idea of how the
project can appeal to my age market as well as other age groups.

4. What’s your favourite thriller
movie?
Dark Knight Series
Seven
Shutter Island
Inception
Saw
Other, please specify
These results have a range of answers and there isn’t a significantly big range from one
thriller movie to another. But the three significant individual thriller movies are Dark
Knight Series, Inception and Saw. These movies are not the same concept of thriller as
my thriller project but these results will have to make me use code and conventions
from these movies into mine to make my project appeal to my target audience.

5. Which of the following would you like to see in a thriller movie? Tick 2
Suspense
Tension
Humour
Confusion
Protagonist vs Antagonist
Mystery
This result has a obvious significant majority, which are both tension and suspense.
These two code and conventions are seen to be important for our target audience as
well as us. We wanted to have lots of tension and suspense in our thriller film project
and our target audience seems them to feature in a thriller movie so there will be no
need of reforms to our code and coventions.

6. Which thriller sub-genres most appeals to you?
Horror
Psychological
Action
Supernatural
Crime
The thriller sub-genre that appeals to our target market most considerably is Horror, which
is our thriller project sub-genre. This will help us create a horror atmosphere in our project
as the majority of the our target market would like horror to be the sub-genre of our thriller
project. But there are some other sub-genres that don’t like horror so we will use other
code and conventions of those sub-genres also.

7. Do you like film opening to have cliff openers?
Yes
No
Not Sure
The most frequent answer in this question is ‘Yes’ than the other options which take
the other halves together. So, this will enable us to have a cliff opener as our thriller
film opening. But, there are other answers that are either ‘Not Sure’ or they said ‘No’ so
we will not have a considerably big cliff opener as our film opening as we have to
appeal with our whole target market not only the majority.

8. What do you think is the most important
key to a thriller. Tick 2
Sound
Plot
Lightning
Clothing/props
Setting
The most evident key component in a thriller movie in this graph is the 'Plot'. So our group has
to intrigue the audience by having a very original, interesting plot of a thriller movie therefore
they will be lots of adjustments to be made in our thriller project. But the other components
listed in the graph has a significant more amount all together compared to the 'Plot' alone so
our group has to include all of these components effectively to make our original storyline
stand out and draw the audience in.

9. Do you like a film to build up
tension and suspense?
Yes
No
Obviously, the most outstanding amount of whether or not our movie project should build
up tension and suspense is 'Yes'. This is significant as our film project is a thriller and
thriller movies usually build up tension and suspense at the start of the film. Seeing as we
only have 2 minutes, this is evident to build this up whilst drawing the audience's
attention. But we won't make the tension and suspense seem too extreme, which might
be the reason for people's disapproval. Therefore, the tension and suspense will build up
in a more realistic, sustainable way.

10. Would you prefer a male or female
as a protagonist?
Female
Male
The most evident answer in this graph is 'Female', which is considerably strange as the
protagonist is always male whilst the 'helpless victim' are female. But there are some
people who seem to have traditional views that answered 'Male'. However our movie
project will leave the audience to figure out who the protagonist is.

11. What setting do you feel is best for
a thriller?
'Haunted house'
'Forest'
'Abandoned place'
I picked these specific quotes as they are relevant to what
our movie project will be about. These quotes all give the
same vibe to the audience that we aim to achieve in our
movie project. But, these locations will most likely not be
featured in our movie project as our plot will not work
effectively if it was around here but there will be some
elements from these locations added to our movie.