The document discusses research conducted into the thriller genre and target audiences for thriller films. It provides definitions of thrillers and explores their history and various subgenres. A questionnaire was administered that found the target audience to be males and females in their late teens who prefer suspenseful, mysterious trailers and posters that do not reveal too much of the plot. Respondents indicated they most want to see thriller films for their intriguing storylines and feelings of suspense they provide.

1. Research Ashleigh, Becky, Scott & Claire.

2. Definitions – noun 1. a person or thing that thrills. 2. an exciting, suspenseful play or story, esp. a mystery story. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thriller << in the context of a film, a thriller would entail an exciting suspenseful and mysterious plotline with the intention to thrill. The difference between the genres horror and thriller is that a thriller film is more psychological and makes the audience have to think more then horrors, furthermore a horror film contains more gore then a thriller film and usually has a less gripping storyline.

8. Favourite film genre? Here we asked our interviews what their favourite film genre was so that we could see how popular the thriller genre actually is. From our results we found that the most popular film genre was comedy, which is because this can appeal to nearly everybody and does not have a many barriers when focusing on target audience, depending on the type of comedy. Whereas thriller got a 11.11% overall, therefore being the 4 th popular which is still quite high up. Giving us a better chance to use this genre as our own because we already know it is quite popular. A) Comedy B) Action C) Sci-fi D) Romance E) Thriller F) Adventure G) Horror H) Fantasy I) Western J) Other

9. How often do you watch films? A) Once a Month B) Twice a Month C) Once a Week D) Twice a Week E) Three times a Week + We also wanted to know how often people watched films so that we could analyse if they are film lovers or just the occasional film watcher. Most people watched films once a week which is an average amount to watch films showing us that the people who have answered the questionnaire are general public and not phonetics.

10. Through what media do you view films the most? A) Cinema B) Rental C) Internet D) TV E) DVD/Blu-ray We then asked the audience about the way they viewed films the most which resulted in DVD/Blu-ray was selected as the most popular, followed by TV telling us people prefer to watch films at home, as it requires less effort and possibly cheaper. This could help us when advertising as it can tell us we need a good marketing scheme when selling the DVD.

11. Do Thriller movies appeal to you? We know that the majority of people who answered our questionnaire were interested in thriller films and that they appealed to them as the results have shown.

12. Which of these thrillers have you seen? A) Hannibal B) Sin city C) The Dark Knight D) Psyco E) Panic Room F) Se7en G) Room 1408 H) Other We wanted to get an idea about the types of thrillers that had already been viewed by the people who answered our questionnaire. We found that ‘the dark knight’ was the most popular which could be because it has many subgenres such as, Comic book adaptation, action, psychological.

13. What would you rate the films in the previous question? In terms of how ‘Thrilling’ they are. This is the ratings people gave the films from how thrilling they thought they were, you can see from these results that The Dark Knight is the most ‘thrilling to its audience.

14. How do you find out about films the most? A) Posters B) Billboards C) Trailers (Cinema) D) Trailers (TV) E) Trailers (Online) F) Magazines G) Texts/Email alerts H) Word of Mouth I) Other To help us with our marketing we wanted to find out about the most popular way people found out about films, which according to our results was trailers they saw on TV followed by Trailers at Cinema. Telling us that people seem to find out about films from trailers as they are more visual and give more information about the film then other methods, which is further shown from the least popular way which was billboards.

15. What attracts you about a thriller film in particular? A) Storyline B) Actors C) Feeling of suspense D) Feeling of Fear E) Producers/Directors F) Reputation G) Prequel According to these results about what attracts them about a thriller film, we know that it is the storyline and the feeling of suspense. We have taken this information into mind when writing our plot synopsis to make sure that the plotline is interesting and keeps the audience thinking, we will also make sure that the film keeps the audience in suspense throughout.