Questionaires

This part of our research was finding out more about our audience and their likes and dislikes so we can focus on what film's do wrong and what films do right so we can make our opening perfect for our target audience. We have decided we are going to to aim our film at 15+. This is because it gives us a bit more lee-way as too what we can put in our film and make it suitable. The reason why we did not choose 18+ was becasue we wanted to sample our opening to years 10 and 11 to see what they made of the sequence and give us some appropriate feedbackfor us too work on and perfect so that it was ready for the moderation stage.

This is our questionaire:

Are you male or female?

Tick the age category that you fit in to –

15 – 17 □     18 – 25   □   26 – 35 □     36 - 45 □     46 – 55  □   55+ □

do you prefer 15+ or 18+ thriller films usually, if you are under 18 you may still vote for 18+

15+  □

18+  □

What type of sub genre within thrillers do you enjoy? Tick as many as apply

Action- thriller □

Western-thriller □

Crime-thriller □

Film noir – thriller □

Religious thriller – such as Da Vinci code □

Gangster thriller □

Psychological thriller   □

Please tick the thriller films that you have really enjoyed from the list below – as many as apply

Jaws □

Paranormal activity □

The godfather □

Inception □

Pulp fiction □

The Dark Knight □

Psycho □

Se7en □

Die hard □

Memento □

Silence of the lambs □

What do you feel is very important in a thriller film? Rank from one to eight with one being least important and eight being most

A feeling of suspense □

Fast paced music □

A plot twist □

Action □

Gore □

Science  □

A sense of reality – not too farfetched □

A clever storyline  □

Do you like to see credits in the opening of the film?

Yes □

No □

Don’t mind □

We printed this 20 times and handed it out to our target audience. Once we have our questionaires back we will being analysing them and fitting our film's codes and conventions, however we shall not fall into the trap of making our film clique. We aim to make our film unique and that no one has seen before.