Auidence Research Questionniare

1) What is your favorite sub-genre?
a)Gangster
b)Crime/spy
c)psychological - 3
d)Action - 2
e)Other - 2

2) What do you think makes a good thriller character?
a) Costume
b) Dialogue
c) Motive
d) All of the above - 7

3) What kind of location would you prefer a thriller to be set in?
a) Somewhere exotic
b) Unrecognisable - 2
c) Recognisable - 5
d) Other

4) What music do you think works best?
a) Instrumental only - 6
b) Instrumental and vocal - 1
c) vocal only
d) Silence

5) What director of thriller films do you like best?
a) Tarintino
b) Hitchcock - 6
c)Martin Scorsese
d) other - 1

6) What aspects of thrillers do you think works best?
a) Sound - 2
b) Costume
c) character - 3
d) Location - 1
e) Lighting - 1


I was asked to design a questionnaire and hand it out to 10 - 15 people. I handed my questionnaire's out to teenagers; ages 16/17.

For my first question I asked; 'What is your favorite sub-genre? ' I found out that 3people liked psycholigical films, 2 people liked action and 2 people liked other sub-genre thriller films.
The second question I asked was; ' What do you think makes a good thriller character? ' For this question I provided different answers; Costume, Motive, Dialogue or All of the above. From the feed back I discovered that everyone who filled in my questionnaire said they think 'all of the above' makes a good thriller character.
The third question I asked was; ' What kind of location do you prefer a thriller film to be set in? ' 2 people said they would prefer the location to be unrecognisable and 5 people said they would prefer the location to be recognisable.
The fourth question I asked was; ' what music do you think works best ? ' Six people decided that instrumental would work best whilst only one person thought instrumental and vocals would work the best.
For the fifth question I asked; ' What director of thriller films do you like the best? 6 people liked Hitchcock the best and one person said other, the director varies.
For the sixth and final question I asked; ' What aspects of thriller films do you think works best? ' 2 people replied sound, 2 people replied characters, 1 person replied location and 1 person replied lighting. This question had the biggest variety of answers in terms of feedback of what people thought works best in thriller films.
The information found out from this questionnaire will help me out whilst filming and planning our thriller. e and my production group have decided that we will be filming in a recognisable location. The information from this will help us decide what aspects of thrillers to include as well.