Target Audience results - Miss Miller

Target Audience results - Miss Miller

Research was carried out to find out what types of thriller films people like and what they think makes a good thriller film. The results we get will help us to make our opening scene, as we will know what people like in thriller films. 

Question 1 How old are you?

The results for this question show that a majority of the people we interviewed are between the ages of 11-20 of age. This result shows that our opening sequence should be made with the intentions of the film to be for people aged between 11 and 20, This also shows that our narrative is likely to be more conventional as the younger audience will be able to keep up with a fast paced sometimes confusing narrative. the age certificate we will aim for is a 12A, these certificate films are usually more detailed and rely on suspense and clever editing styles rather than gore to create suspense and scare the audience.

Question 2 What is your gender?

The majority of the people we asked were male. The result of this question doesn't really have a big effect on what the conventions and narrative of our opening sequence will be as both genders that will choose to watch a thriller film will like the same conventions that are typical of thrillers. 

Question 3 After watching the first film do you want to find out what happens next if it ends on a cliff-hanger straight away?

This question asks whether the audience want to find out what happens after there is a cliff hanger in a film. The results clearly suggest that the audience does enjoy the used of the cliff-hanger so therefore, when planning the narrative of the opening sequence we should consider that if ending on a cliff hanger would be effective at engaging the audience into our film. The results came out as that ending the film on a cliff hanger would be a good idea.

Question 4-What is a typical setting of a previous thriller film you have seen?

The setting of a narrative is very important to the audience, if the audience can relate to the setting of a film then they might feel more venerable, which creates suspense as they feel the could be in the situation that the victim is in. from our results we have seen that conventional locations include cities or forests, we should consider using housing estates or cities as these are places that the audience might be able to relate to.   

Question 5- What is you're favourite thriller sub-genre?
The favourite thriller sub genre is Psychological by my questioned sample. This sub-genre contains such films as Se7en and Shutter Island which are very successful, popular films. We should consider basing our narrative of the phycological sub-genre as people prefer it to other thriller sub-genres.

Open Questions Results
The open question results gave a wide range of answers, so the use of a graph would have been unhelpful, but these questions did provide some good ideas for the opening sequence of our thriller. Question 7 asked, What typical sounds can you remember from previous thriller films that you have seen? the most popular answers were 'knife' and 'screaming', which are both conventional to the thriller genre so we should consider using them in our opening sequence. 

Summary of Results
From the target audience questionnaire we have found out lots of important information for our opening sequence, such as what our target audience is and what age certificate we should aim for and what conventions are most effective in the thriller genre. These results will be used to make a more engaging and conventional thriller opening sequence.

Vox Pops
Here are a few of the vox pops that I did to my sample. They of are my Mum and my dad.