Questionnaire and analysis

Before beginning our filming, we have created a questionnaire to survey members of our target audience about what they like to see in thrillers. This information shall give us a better idea about how to structure out filming and the plot that our film has.Our have is aimed at 15 year olds. We have chosen this target audience as we find it will be the easiest to appeal to as we are roughly the same age. We will have a better understanding as a group of what members of this audience will like to see and what aspects of films they do not like.To make our thriller appeal to our target audience we are going to stick to many of the popular thriller conventions, helping us to make the film interesting and exciting for the viewer. We will also consider when are where the thriller shall be shown as this will have a large impact of who will watch it. For our film, we intend it to be shown after 9 o’clock as it contains explicit content and it cannot be shown before the watershed mark.
Many people of a younger audience prefer action and horror thrillers because they find the plot lines for psychological and political thrillers hard to follow and understand. They are also not as fast paced as many action or horror thrillers which makes them more exciting.
“I prefer action thrillers because they are fast paced and the suspense is constantly being built up. Also, the viewers sometimes think they know what is happening and then suddenly the plot is turned upside down with a sudden plot twist or unexpected event which keeps the audience interested in the film.”
What type of thriller do you prefer?(please tick)
Action thriller -Horror thrillerPsychological thrillerPolitical thrillerCrime/spy thriller
Why?
“I like the action, it keeps me on the edge of my seat.”
What makes a good plot line?
“Interesting characters and character relationships help make the story interesting. Not too complicated or hard to follow and mainly keep it realistic because I don’t like films where you can see that something that has happened in the film could clearly not happen in real life. By keeping it more realistic makes it seem more real which makes the audience more able to relate to characters and the situations they experience.”
Reflective Comment: having done a questionnare, it helps us as a group reflect on what our audience want to see. therefore we can help build our production around this.