Questionnaire deconstruction

This was the first question of my questionnaire. I got a decent balance of boys and girls so I would have a mix of answers from different kinds of people.

For this question I was again able to ask a wide variety of people so that I could have the viewpoints of different age groups. Obviously, my most common one was 16-18 as I asked other students from the school. I was able to ask an elderly person what they thought too, this way I could have a good variety of what would appeal to the mass market when producing my thriller. 

Once again, if I could get a variety of answers for people's favourite genres, then it would once again help to make an opening that would appeal to anyone who wants to watch it. There were a decent amount of people who enjoy thriller films, although more enjoy comedy which is about as far away as you can get, which I took into account when asking the questions.

To determine whether we needed to have an in-depth think about the location for our thriller opening, we asked this question. The end result was that the majority of people do care about the location, and with good reasoning, so because of this we decided to have a good think to narrow it down to two good locations, so in the end we were happy with the ones we selected and we knew that they would have potential.

Most thrillers will have trailers that use parts of the thriller opening, so we wanted to be sure that a trailer would be good. Fundamentally, this requires a good use of different effects in the film, and we had to work harder on this due to most people saying they would genuinely watch a film solely based on their enjoyment of the trailer.

This question required people to consider, on a scale of one to ten, how highly they rated the thriller genre. This was just to get an idea of how entertaining they thought the genre was, just to make sure that if there were a group of people who found it boring, because that would defeat the object of why we are doing this.

When asking this question, we wanted to know what people find most entertaining in thriller films - this way we would be able to know what the main focus woyld be. In the end, people foumd plot to be the most important factor, so we tried to make the plot important, while still focussing effectively on characters and less on props and customes (although we still put effort into these)

The point of this question was to see where people would have their ideal thriller set. If there was one that was particularly popular, we could incorporate this idea into our own thriller opening. In the end, the top two answers were a dark empty street and the middle of nowhere, so we decided to use both of these to find the best location and, in the end, our location did consist of both of the top answers.

I decided that this would be a good question to ask because the most popular may be a good idea for us to use. It appears that most of the people who filled it out are younger than the required age but watch 18s most regularly, with 15s coming in second, and only one person said they watched films rated 12.

The voting was exactly the same for this question. We decided to make our opening a 15 in the end, we decided this was not a bad thing because there were films that were a 15 that got votes. Films rated 15 are not the most popular, but they are still remotely popular so it would fill a gap in the market.

 We wanted to get a good idea of how many thrillers people had watched. If we had good results to this question then we'd know that the people answering the questionnaire had a good foundation of knowledge about the genre. Fortunately, everyone had watched at least one thriller and a lot of people had watched 6-20 thrillers.