Planning: Analyzing Thriller Questionnaire Results

After the survey had been dseigned, we asked a few people to take the survey so that analyze the results and help us to make our film meet the target market's needs.

For Question 1,  I found out that 100% of all the people have shopped at H&M in the past 6 months. 12.5% of people have shopped at Footasylum and 25% have shopped at Topman. Other comments include Tk Maxx, Nike, Superdry, Primark, Vans, River Island, Next and Outfit. Therefore, this means that we have to mainly buy our costumes from H&M to meet the target market's needs.

For Question 2, 22.2% of people listen to hip hop/rap, 33.33% of people listen to pop and 44.44% listen to rock music. Other responses include alternative, Indie rock, house and pop rock. Due to the fact that most people listen to rock music, it means that we will have to implement rock music into our movie scenes.

For question 3, I found out that 44.44% of people had action thrillers as their favourite type of thriller . This is also the same with crime thrillers. However, only 11.11% of people had crime thriller as their favourite type of thriller. This means that we will have add the motifs & elements of action and crime thrillers. This will  include an obvious protagonist and antagonist, a race against the clock, a macguffin (pointless element) and suspense.

For Question 4, 71.48% of all people spend their leisure time watching TV. 0% spend their time playing sports and 28.57% spent their leisure time shopping. Other comments will include social networking, listening to music, Netflix, playing video games and socializing with friends. As most people watch tv as their leisure time, it means that we will have to feature people watching tv as part of a scene within our movie.

For Question 5, I found out that most people found both the sound used and the story plot to be the most essential within a movie thriller. This is because 45.45% of respondents voted for both sound and plot whilst only 9.09% voted for setting. This means that the story plot will have to be engaging in order to meet the audience's need and appropriate sounds must be used throughout the movie.

For this question, I found out that the most engaging factor within a thriller movie would be suspense. This is due to the fact that 63.64% of respondents voted for this. Also, the second most important factor would be mystery as there was a 27.27% vote. Following on from that, it means that we will have to implement these features into our film to make it exciting.

For this question, I have asked  people to state their favourite thriller movie. This was so that elements from these movies can be incorporated into our film. The responses included Nightcrawler, The Host, Taken, Se7en, Chainsaw Massacre and Die Hard.

Here, I have asked people to state an ideal opening/ending of a thriller movie in order to produce a high quality movie to meet the audience's needs. The people have responded with event's leading up to the murderer's identity/confession an opening that tells the story well and an unexpected ending, plot twist ending/ominous opening, a cliffhanger, an opening that makes people ask question & the ending does not answer them and a jump scare. With these answers put in place, the most important factor would be to have a plot twist at the end i.e. an opening that makes people asks question which don't get answered at the end.

For the question 9, I was asking aspect builds suspense within a movie due to the fact that we are going to produce a action thriller which is bombarded with intensifying moment especially in chase scenes. The top answer was sound as 63.64% of respondents voted for that answer. Therefore, this means that sound is the most important factor that builds suspense within a movie thriller and as a result, this aspect will be used in our films.

For the last question, I was trying to find out about what aspects of thriller movies that people dislike. These things included inevitable endings, a cliche story plot, tedious characters and other comments included bad acting. The most voted answer was inevitable endings as 70% of respondents for voted this with . This shows that people are fed up of seeing the same old endings and the same story plot. As a result, we must make the story engaging and the ending surprising to avoid this problem and meet the audience's needs.