The document discusses the results of a survey about audience preferences for thriller film openings. The survey was conducted to help plan an appealing opening sequence for a target audience of 15-17 year olds. Key results included that flashbacks, low key lighting, eerie music, slowly unfolding stories, suspense, tension, and some scares were popular elements. Psychological thrillers, horror, and crime thrillers also appealed to respondents. The group plans to incorporate the most popular elements from the survey into their opening sequence to engage their target demographic.

1. As we are focusing on the opening sequence of the
film, asking the question of what do you think the
most important parts of the opening, will be useful
for our planning. With people's preferred elements
we can use these for our target audience to improve
and make our sequence as appealing to the target
audience as much as possible. Here the results an
insight of the storyline and sounds to be the most
popular conventions for the opening.
The next question asks about the person's ideal
type of protagonist allowing us to compare our
ideas with the results to target our audience. The
results showed a psychopath with the most votes
and 64% followed by a villain and hero with only
18% each. This links with our ideas of having a
psychopath as our protagonist as we felt we had
a strong storyline and a good use of thriller
conventions to convey in the opening.
Question 4 asks how often would you say you
watch thriller films, this will give us an idea of
how often people taking the survey watch thriller
movies and what type of expectations we need
to fulfil. A couple of times a month was shown to
be the most popular choice with 55% of the
votes choosing this option.
Having a question asking people's ideal type of
protagonist will be useful to use to see what
appeals most to the audience. The characters
are one of the most important parts of the movie
and therefore having the audiences advice will
help their sequence appeal to people and their
preferred choices Here the results show a hero
being the most popular protagonist within the
target audience.
The next questions asks which sub genre of thriller
movie is most interesting to the person, to give us
the results of the most popular genre. We can then
use results to apply to our opening sequence
knowing the most popular genres, which appeal to
audiences. The results are mixed for this question
but show popularity for horror, crime and
psychological thrillers which we will adjust to our
ideas and movie genre .
The first question asks people's age allowing us to
analyse the answers within people's age categories.
This will make it easier for us when we have
decided a target audience for our opening
sequence and we can then use the information from
the survey. The results show 100% of the answers
being 15-17 so this will be our main target
audience, this is also our age group as well so this
should work well with our type of ideas and target
audience.

2. The next question asks their favourite thriller film to
give us an idea of the type of storyline and
characters within a movie The results showed 'no
country for old men' with 4 votes and 'none of the
above options' with 4 votes also. This tells us that
none of the thriller options are that popular within
our target audience but 'no country for old men' is
fairly popular. We can use this idea to apply to our
overall suggestions in comparison to the movie.
This question allowed the person to rank the
genre conventions in order of their preference for
the opening sequence. Low key lighting was
shown to be top within the results with the use of
eerie music being the second most popular. We
can then use these results when composing our
opening sequence to use the target audience's
preferences so they appeal to our viewers.
Question 7 asks if the person finds it appealing for a
thriller to create suspense and tension. The results
for this question show every vote towards the
answer 'yes'. These results show us as a group that
creating tension and suspense is vital in our
opening sequence and will directly apply to our
audience. As the votes are 100% that suspense and
tension needs to be created, we will need to use
thriller conventions to build this and engage the
audience as much as possible.
Question 10 asks the person the pace of how they
think the story should unfold. The results showed
73% of the votes for fairly slowly, this tell us as a
group how we should plan our story to slowly be
uncovered rather than immediately to build
suspense and draw the target audience in.
The question how do you think the opening
scenes of a thriller should open allows the
person to show their preferred scene openings of
a thriller. The results showed flashbacks to be
the most popular with 64% of the votes and
present time was second most popular with 18%.
This will be useful when planning our opening
scenes for the opening and how the audience
will react to certain types of opening scenes and
conventions.

3. The final question of the survey asks people
whether they enjoy being scared b thriller
movies. 45% of the votes went towards yes and
another 45% voted for sometimes. Form the
results we can analyse as a group that most
people from the target audience like thrillers to
scare them, drawing them in as a viewer. We will
consider this when using specific conventions in
our opening to cause a thrill and scare to the
audience.