Questionnaire results

From handing out 20 questionnaires to a range of different people from our target audience, such as male and female and 17 to 19 year olds we have produced these results. These are the ten graphs I made to display our results.

As you can see a larger number of people asked in our questionnaire were male, this was slightly deliberate simply because our main target audience is male. However we did want to include females as well because we still want them to be involved with our film. 

There was a slight range in the age which is fine as our target age is from 15 to 24.

The third question we asked was whether they watched thriller as this is obviously important as this is one of the main genres our film is associated with. Fortunately the results came back as the majority of people did watch thrillers which was very supportive of what we have decided to do.

We wanted to ask to ask the participants which thriller film was there favourite so that we could look at these film, analyse them, the trailers and posters associated with them for inspiration and to make our film successful. From our results the biggest hit seemed to be taken, followed by seven, batman and the girl with the dragon tattoo, this helped us is knowing which films to focus our analysis on.

By asking what type of conventions they except to see helped us in knowing what to include in our film/teaser trailer, we did not give them any options to choose from they came up with the answers themselves which we thought was good by keeping there options open and seeing whether similar answers were given. This graph shows that tension is definitely a convention that viewers except to see, along with action, death, speed and blood. From knowing this information it has helped us in knowing what to include.

This was a make or break question for us really, so we were very happy when the results came back as a full house! All participants including the ones that do not watch thrillers even said that they like the sound of a thriller drama. This pleased us very much and motivated us even more in doing a hybrid genre which is slightly unusual. 

The main expectations of a thriller genre are that it would be very dramatic, exciting with that soap like feel as the situation involved should be realistic but unlikely, something that had a chance of happening because this creates tension.

We decided to ask our participants how often they go to the cinema because if they went fairly regularly this helps us because we feel secured by the fact that our trailer/film will be seen and be successful. Also knowing that they enjoy seeing thrillers and most of the participants go to the cinema either weekly or monthly it supports our ideas.

All participants agreed that seeing a teaser trailer makes them want to go and see it.

Lastly we decided to ask the participants what makes a good teaser trailer so that we can include these conventions in our teaser trailer to make it appealing. The conventions that we got back were full of action and unrevealing so that the twist or the story line is not revealed which would make going to see the film pointless. Conventions such as fast paced also came back popular which is an idea we are definitely thinking about including in our teaser trailer.