Of the 30 people who took part in our survey 57% were female and 43% were male. We tried to make sure that equal amounts of people from each gender took part, this way we would not have a biased view from either of the genders.
Of all the people we surveyed they all agreed that they enjoyed watching movies. Therefore this gives us an indication that people would possibly watch our movie.
The majority of people we surveyed were between the ages of 16-24, this is because this is our main target audience. We therefore wanted to see what would appeal to them. We surveyed 3 other age groups just to see what their opinions of thriller movies were.
Of the people we surveyed they felt that the two most important characters in a film were the hero and mysterious character. We therefore need to incorporate a hero or a mysterious character in our opening sequence to please our target audience.
We planned on making our film a psychological thriller; this was confirmed to be one of the favoured film types of the people we surveyed. This therefore confirms that we should make our movie a psychological movie.
These results shows that people believe, that acting, special effects/ graphics and characters are the most important aspect in thrillers rather than music and credits. Credits seem to be the least important aspect in the peoples opinion, this means that we should focus on the acting, characters and special effects in our thriller.
This pie chart shows that people mostly want to receive Suspense, nerve wrecking tension and Intense excitement. Anxiety was the least emotion that people want receiver therefore we need to work on building suspense, excitement and tension in are sequence to engage the audience and avoid creating too much anxiety in the thriller sequence.
This clearly indicated to us that the opening sequence of a film is very important, only one person out of 30 said that it was not important. Therefore we need make sure the sequence is done very well in order to engage and retain the audience.
This pie chart showed that people mostly want to receive little or do not mind how much revealed in an opening sequence. Therefore we need make sure we do not incorporate too much action in are opening sequence as it may not satisfy our target audience.
This pie chart shows that horror and action is the most preferred genre, this is a positive indication as our thriller is an action packed horror, therefore our thriller movie has demand and is favoured.
Question 11 of our questionnaire asked people if they thought the opening sequence of a film is important, and why they think that is. 29 out of the 30 people we asked said that the opening sequence of a film is important/ very important. The majority of people said that it was important because it needs to set up the scene and story line, it also determines if the movie is going to be good or not and therefore if they would continue to view the movie. Some people also stated that a movie sequence needs to grab their attention in order to engage and retain them. Someone stated that it needs to build excitement, all of this gives us a brief understanding of what is expected in a thriller sequence and how important it is. This also helps us make our thriller movie sequence as capturing and engaging as possible in order satisfy the viewers.
