Apologies as i have only just compiled our audience questionaire feedback!
We produced a questionnaire which we handed out to 9 males and 9 females ranging from the ages of 16-35. As our brief is to produce a thriller suitable for a certificate of 15, it is not only 15 yearolds who would watch such a film, so to have a mixed age group was important to ouraudience feedback. Below i have made some statements from the questionare results, and i have highlighted the things which i think we have tried to encorpoate into our thriller/what the questionnaries have shown to be most popular in a thriller.
Out of the thriller genres; horror, crime, pychological, action and supernatural the male participants preferred to watch action, psychological and crime the most and females preferred psychological, then supernatural/horror then crime/action. It is clear to se here that the most popular thriller genre is pyschological.
90% of male participants like clues in thrillers which is also popular with 100% of female particpants agreeing.
100% of both males and female partcipants like plot twists and extreme camera angles in thrillers.
90% of male partcipants like fast editing with only 1% liking slow instead of fast.
Female partcipants liked fast/fast and slow editing 50/50- indicating an apropriate mix makes for the perfect thriller.
Male partcipants like film noir 50/50 as opposed to female participants preferring it 90/10. indicating film noir is very popular amongst our sample audience.
The male participants were most afraid of spiders, heights, sharks, little girls on swings and dark corners.
The female participants were most afraid of; spiders, darkness, small spaces and being followed. Indicating overall spiders, darkness and "being trapped" scares our sample audience the most.
The favourite thrillers of our male particpants were; usual suspects, seven, vacancy and sin city, where as our females particpants liked;fight club, memento and clock work orange
The general concences of what makes a good thriller by both our male and female participants is a good storyline with planty of twists to keep focus and to keep them "guessing" with a really good ending which explains everything.
90% of male participants like clues in thrillers which is also popular with 100% of female particpants agreeing.
100% of both males and female partcipants like plot twists and extreme camera angles in thrillers.
90% of male partcipants like fast editing with only 1% liking slow instead of fast.
Female partcipants liked fast/fast and slow editing 50/50- indicating an apropriate mix makes for the perfect thriller.
Male partcipants like film noir 50/50 as opposed to female participants preferring it 90/10. indicating film noir is very popular amongst our sample audience.
The male participants were most afraid of spiders, heights, sharks, little girls on swings and dark corners.
The female participants were most afraid of; spiders, darkness, small spaces and being followed. Indicating overall spiders, darkness and "being trapped" scares our sample audience the most.
The favourite thrillers of our male particpants were; usual suspects, seven, vacancy and sin city, where as our females particpants liked;fight club, memento and clock work orange
The general concences of what makes a good thriller by both our male and female participants is a good storyline with planty of twists to keep focus and to keep them "guessing" with a really good ending which explains everything.
Males wanted a thriller opening to have secrecy, action, cliffhangers and montages
Females wanted to see; suspence, mystery, and darkness. This indicates a thriller opening should have lots of suspence/cliffhangers and mystery.
Males wanted characters to be; secretive and have in depth personalities/histories
Females wanted to see; suspence, mystery, and darkness. This indicates a thriller opening should have lots of suspence/cliffhangers and mystery.
Males wanted characters to be; secretive and have in depth personalities/histories
Females wanted characters to have; mystery and suspence, dark pasts, to be secretive "two faced". This indicates characters should be secretive, unpredictable and dark.
Excellent work Kat. A concise and very useful analysis of your audience research.
ReplyDeleteJames, how are the storyboards coming along?
i took over the story boards as james is scoring the soundtrack, they are pretty much done now, and we aim to shoot over the weekend!
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