Questionnaires and audience profiles.

This is our primary research. We created questionnaires to find out what people enjoy watching based on their age group, interests, where they live, and their economic status. From this we were able to get information from people aged between 16-50. This helped us find out what age range enjoys watching thriller films. We found out that the older the person is, the less they enjoy watching a thriller film. Teenagers aged between 16-20 (male and female) were more interested in them. This informed us that our thriller opening sequence would need to relate to teenagers or young adults, because that is the general age range that enjoys watching them. By doing this questionnaire, it allowed us to have a full understanding about what the audiences enjoy watching, and what specific films. Because we had a wide range of ages it made our results more reliable rather than just on one fixed age group.

This is an audience profile for the films, Orphan, The Omen and Taken. We can see that the main age group that watched this film (Orphan) was 15-24. This tells us that this thriller appeals to teenagers and young adults mainly female. The Omen however appeals to mostly males aged 15-24. Again this shows that the main people wanting to watch these thrillers are young teenagers/adults. Taken is an action thriller. Young males aged 15-24 tend to watch this more than females. We can see from these audience profiles that we need to make sure our Opening Thriller Sequence will appeal to audiences of our age range (15-24) and we will need to stay clear of Action Thrillers if we want it to appeal to a wider range of people. We will aspire to make a psychological thriller as this will grab people's attention and make them confused and ask questions.

This is our outcome from the questionnaires we distributed. This shows our target audience and what their interests are and what Sub Genres they watch. We will aim to make our thriller opening sequence to relate to modern day teenagers as much as possible. This will be to make the overall clip realistic and relatable.