The survey results provide insight into audience preferences for different elements of a thriller film. Respondents indicated that music and sound most affect their emotions. Darkness and blood were commonly noticed visual elements. Being followed was viewed as the creepiest storyline element. This informed the filmmakers' choices for their thriller opening, helping them feel confident that their selections around a vulnerable female character, use of romance, and storyline of a girl alone in a dark alley would appeal to audiences. The survey supported the creative decisions and validated the filmmakers' initial ideas.

1. Survey Results - Analysed
A) 12 - 14 Establishing a person’s age group in a survey is
B) 15 - 17 important. It helps us to see different age groups views
C) 18 - 20 on the subject. For example, someone in the age group
D) 21 - 29 50-59 may have very different views from the age group
E) 30 - 39
12-14. Knowing the ages of some of the people allow us
F) 40 - 49
to interpret and match results to different age groups.
G) 50 - 59
H) 60+
A) Horror
Knowing what sub genre of thriller people
B) Psychological thriller
prefer, also allows us to edit our views on
C) Gangster
D) Action the results. It allows us to consider
E) Disaster everyone’s views on each question, allowing
F) Other it to become more personal, and recognising
peoples answers easier, letting us become
able to understand why they picked that
answer.

2. What attracts you to this type of thriller?(Analysis in black)
Complete list of all responses given to this question
- not being cheesey
- The least scarey I think
- Usually poor quality films but very funny to watch and also the gore
rules
- i tend to find the plots are better thought out
- with action films, there is always so much going on in the picture
- the adrenaline and normally good special effects.
- constant moving action
- it has more of a cinematic effect on me if it has a physchological plot.
- The thrill of being 'scared'
- big G, is the jizzle init nizzle
- The suspense
- I like being scared, but knowing there is no real threat!

3. Having a written input for this question Seeing what the audience notices most is
allows us to really see what our audiences a great influence into our work. Using
are thinking, without having them click a certain iconography and certain
button. Allowing them to write down there what
When watching a thriller, conventions supports our previous
feelings allow us to see there exact
connotations/iconography do evidence, allowing usour put the more
thoughts. This has influenced us, as we
you notice the most?For
popular choices into
to
work.
example: Darkness, Blood etc. (Analysis in red) darkness are noticed a
can see particular interests and attractions example, blood and
to thrillers. Inspiring us to, influence this to this question watching the thrillers. When
Complete list of all responses given lot when
into our own thriller opening. Having a writing our initial ideas, both these factors
personalblood/not sure audience was
- input from the were considered, and this evidence just
more useful when we came to final allowed us to be sure we were making the
- blood
decisions, as we could include the right decision.
- Blood, Darkness, Gore ... im not sure
audiences choices in our work.
- isolation, people being alone
- Really dark rooms, cloudy sky with a glimmer of moon light shining
through...
- blood
- mist, shadows,
- unpredictablilty?
- Blood
- Vinnie Jones
- Darkness
- sound, location

4. A) Music and Sound
B) Characters
C) Narrative
D) Setting
E) Other
This question was allowing us as a group, to see
what affects people’s emotions the most. This was a
psychological question, as usually what effects your
emotions the most, effects what you remember the
most in the film. By the results we can conclude that
choosing the correct music for the scene is
important, as it affects the whole atmosphere for the
scene. This becomes more important in the editing
stage, and it will most certainly be used.
A) A girl on her own, down a dark alley, with no phone reception.
B) A busy school, strongly related to our character, obviously hiding
This question is with a visibly dodgy own
something.Above are two storylines we
choices.
considered using. We had already decided on
choice A, but we were comparing our choices,
and allowing the audience to have there
input. Luckily choice A won. But it was
interesting to see the results, as choice B was
not far behind. And choice B could be seen as
a completely different sub-genre of thriller
compared to choice A.

5. A) A vulnerable teenage girl and teenage boy
B) An older Man or Woman
C) A family
D) Children (12 and below)

6. This question is also closely related to our choices, for our
thriller opening. It was again, used to support our
choices, but also see what other people thought. I tried
to use a range of characters, and situations. A is our
choice, which also won. Giving a confidence boost,
allowing us to believe we are making the correct choices,
and appealing to our audience!
A) Yes
B) No
This question was one that was slightly dead. And if
I were to do it again, I would phrase the question
differently. We are using romance in our production,
but to an extent which affects the audience’s views
on the character. The romance is being used to
make the audience feel sorry for the character and
gain sympathy for her.
A) Being Followed
B) Death
C) Serial Killers
D) Gangsters and Weapons
E) Extraterrestrial life
F) Other
Another question in support of our final ideas! I
thought of a range of choices that may be
considered ‘creepy’. I chose to do this, as I
wanted to see what the audience found most
creepy, and trying to connect it the one of the
first questions, which asked which sub-genre
the preferred. Choice A won again, which is
also evidence that we are on the correct path,
for making an appealing thriller opening.