Practical Coursework, Question 6

This is the questionnaire that we handed out to people who watch Thriller Films to find out what their main interests are and what they look for when watching a Thriller Film.

1. How old are you?

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2. What are your main interests? (tick all appropriate)

• Cooking
• Sport
• Music
• Socializing
• Other (please specify) ...............................

3. What is/are your favourite Thriller film(s)?

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4. What do you look for when choosing/watching a Thriller film? (tick all appropriate)

• Good Plot/ Storyline
• Famous actors/ actresses
• Good reviews
• Originality/ Uniqueness
• Other (please specify) ........................................

Results.

1. Age:

16. ||||

17. ||||| |

18. |||

19. ||

2. Main Interests:

Cooking ||

Sport ||||| |||||

Music |||||

Socializing ||||| |||

Other |||

- Dancing

- Art/Photography

- Theatre/ Drama

3. Favourite Thriller Film:

Deep Blue Sea ||

Taken ||||| ||

Silence of the Lambs ||||| ||

Obsessed ||||

4. Choosing/ Watching a Thriller:

Good Plot/ Storyline |||

Famous Actors/Actresses ||||| |||

Good Reviews ||||

Originality/ Uniqueness ||||| ||

Other

Evaluation:

1. We asked people in this age bracket as most thriller films are either 12 or 15 certificate. This then is our target audience, so it was best to ask people of this age to complete our questionnaire.

2. We can see from these results that our target audience enjoy sport, socializing and music, which are quite typical "young" hobbies, so we need to make sure our opening suits the audience, for example by using young characters, locations and parts of the story line which the audience can relate to.

3. We can see here that Silence of the Lambs and Taken are the favourite Thriller films of our target audience. We have already looked at both of these films, which is useful because we now have a better idea of what our audience want. We were quite suprised that Silence of the Lambs was popular because it is quite an old film, and we initially thought our target audience would be interested more in the latest Hollywood blockbuster.

4. We can see from this our target audience like originality and uniqueness, so we need to think about this when doing more indepth planning of our Thriller, we obviously cannot use famous actors and actresses in our film, but this is useful for us to know, as it shows we need to develop a strong sense of character in our opening.