Planning: Questionnaire

Me and my group had to create our own questionnaires individually in preparation for our opening we will create later in the year. Its vital that we produce a questionnaire in order to gather information and indicate what our target audience want to see making them satisfied but sticking to the thriller genre.

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Occupation:

1. How often do you watch thriller films?

Never

Once a month

Once a week

2/3 times a week

2. Do you enjoy thriller films? Yes/no

3. Please explain your answer?

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4. What sub-genre of thriller do you prefer?

Crime

Sci-fi

Action

Psychological

Comedy

Other, please state …………….

5. What themes would you like to see in a thriller? (please circle)

Obsession

Revenge

Vengeance

Kidnap

Torture

      Other, please state …………….

     

6. Do you prefer thrillers based on a true story? (Please circle)

Yes

No

7. Do you find thrillers based on a true story more interesting?

8. What type of character would you like to see in thrillers? please circle as many as you want)

antagonist

protagonist

victim

old lady

child

9. What type of setting/location goes well with a thriller scene?

10. Do thriller films frighten you? (please circle)

      yes 

    no

    sometimes

For this question it was important to find out who watches how many thrillers so we know if they have a good knowledge to define if they’re good thriller audiences so that when we ask them questions based on planning so we’ll get suitable answer in order create a successful thriller opening.

These question was asked because it was essential in helping us to plan and build a base for creating our thriller film as we could always relate back to our target audiences answers. The questionnaire would therefore help us when it comes to creating a certain impacting effect on the audience; furthermore, when added to our research of other thrillers, it is able to help us to make our thriller conventional to the thriller genre.

 

 

 

 

It was vital that we asked a question on location so that we know what the audience would like see for example the ‘forest’ was the most popular option. Not only was we able to find what the audience prefer but it helps us find out what’s conventional to our genre as we asked “what location do you prefer?” based on thrillers.

 

 

The creation of the questionnaire has helped us with our planning towards our thriller as we are now more likely to create a successful thriller in relation to the publics’ response. Furthermore we now know how to make our thriller more convention for from based on the answer we gathered for example crime was the most popular sub-genre and revenge was the most popular theme was revenge therefore we have a thriller based on a student getting revenge after being bullied in his media group. By looking at this questionnaire it was obvious that our target audience  age group is from 15 to roughly around 24.