2. My Aim
• The for my questionnaire was to find out my audiences
opinion on the thriller genre and how I could apply the
feedback to my opening to a thriller
4. Q1 what gender are you
0 10 20 30
Male
Female
I had chosen this question to find
out what gender my target
audience was From my data it
shows that there were more
males than females, it is evident
that there are 6% more males
than females. Having analysed
my findings I will make sure that
my key target audience would be
Males
This has not informed my
planning as I had originally
intended my target audience to
be males
5. Q2 How old are you
0 10 20 30
8 to 12
13 to 16
17 to 20
over 20
I included this question to
find out what age group my
target audience were. My
results show that most of
target audience are aged
13-16. it is evident that
60% of my audience were
aged 13-16 and the rest
were 40%. Having
analysed my findings I will
make sure that my opening
thriller will be aged to the
certain age group This has
not informed my planning
as I originally intended to
my audience to be aged
around 13-16
6. Q3 Do you watch movies
from the thriller genre?
0 10 20 30
Yes
No
I included this question to find
out if a majority of my
audience watches movies from
the thriller genre. My results
show that most of audience
watch movies from the thriller
genre. This is evident as 67%
more of my audience chose
yes than no
Having analysed my findings I
will make sure that my
opening to a movie would be
the genre thriller This has not
informed my planning as had
planned my opening to be the
thriller genre
7. Q4 If you do what type of
thriller do you prefer?
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Action
Sci-fi
Spy
Horror
Psychological
Drama
Other
I included this question to
find out what my were my
audience’s preferred sub-
genre were. This is evident
as 16 out of 30 of my
audience chose action.
Having analysed my
findings I will make sure
that the sub genre to my
Opening would be Action.
This has informed my
planning as I had
originally planned on
psychological to be more
popular
8. Q5 What was your favourite movie from
your chosen Thriller sub-genre?
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Saw
IRobot
The Dark Knight
Memento
Tinker Tailor soldier
Other
I included this question to find
out what movie my audience
preferred from their chosen sub-
genre. My results show that a
majority of my audience prefer
The Dark Knight. This is evident
as 10 out of 30 of my audience
chose The Dark Knight. Having
analysed my findings I will make
sure that most of the elements of
my opening have been taken from
The Dark Knight. This has
informed my planning as I had
originally planned on taking
elements mostly from Memento
but now I have found out that
The dark knight was more
popular than Memento
9. Q6 What elements of Mise en scène
make a thriller effective and why?
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visual effects
Soundtrack
Enigma
Actor/Actress
Sound Effects
Other
I included this question to find out
which Mise en scène would be more
effective to my audience. My results
show that the most effective Mise
en scène was enigma and the reason
most of my audience chose this was
because they said that it builds
tension to the audience. This evident
as 30% of my audience chose
enigma. Having analysed my
findings I will make sure that my
opening will have more elements of
enigma This has not informed my
planning as I had planned on
originally using more elements of
enigma
10. Q7 What gender would you
prefer the protagonist to be?
0 10 20 30
Male
Female
I included this question to find
out which gender would be
more popular to be the
protagonist according to my
audience. My results show that
most of my audience preferred
the protagonist to be Male. This
is evident as 13% more of my
audience chose Male. Having
analysed my findings I will
make sure that on my Opening
the protagonists will me Male .
This has not informed my
planning as I had originally
planned on the protagonist
being Male.
11. Q8 What typography would you find
effective in an opening of a thriller?
0 10 20 30
Simple
Bold
I included this question to find out
what typography would be better
to use in my opening to my thriller.
My results show that most of my
audience preferred the typography
to be Simple than bold this is
evident as 27% more chose the
typography to be simple. Having
analysed my findings I will make
sure the typography is simple for
my opening. This has informed
my planning as I had planned on
originally planned on using a bold
typography
12. Q9 Who is your favourite
director?
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Paul Greengrass
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
Andy Wachowski
James Camron
David Fincher
other
I included this question to find out
what director my audience
preferred the best . My results
show that most of my audience
prefer Christopher Nolan. This is
evident as 10 out of 30 of my
audience chose Christopher
Nolan. Having analysed my
findings I will make sure that my
opening thriller is based on most
of Christopher Nolan's work This
has not informed my planning as
I originally intended to most of
my work based on Christopher
Nolan's work
13. Q10 From your chosen sub-genre what
opening did you find effective?
0 10 20 30
Pulp Fiction
The Dark Knight
Memento
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Saw
Drive
other
I included this question to find out what
movie opening was effective to my
audience and their reason why so which I
could use the elements on to my movie
opening. My results show that most of my
audience thought that Drive had the most
effective opening. This is evident as 9 out
of 30 of my audience chose Drive. Having
analysed my findings I will make sure that
my opening thriller is based on most of
the elements Drive had used. This has
informed my planning as I originally
intended to use elements from The Dark
Knight as I had thought most of the
audience would appeal to it.