Target Audience Results- Miss Miller

When planning our opening scene to a thriller film, we handed our questionnaire to 40 people, asking what people expect to see in thrillers to inspire us to then put specific things into our opening scene.

The first question in which we asked on the questionnaire is 'Are you Male or Female?'. We asked this in order to know which gender people who answered the questionnaire were and we could then see if the different genders prefer different things to each other and we could then include specific things within our scene which adheres to the taste of both genders.


The next question in which we asked was what age certificate do you watch the most. In asking this question, we were able to see which age certificates where watched the most through all ages and genders. In order to know this, we were able to then pick easily what age certifcate to base our opening scene on. Our results concluded that the certificate watched the most was 15, meaning that, our opening scene will have an age certificate of 15.

The thrid question that we asked was 'What interests you in watching a thriller?' we gave tick boxes giving several answers in which they could chose from. Suspense, tension, plot, villain and other. However, suspense was the answer in which got the most votes being 12 out of 40. This ultimately gives us an idea of what interests the audience in watching a thriller meaning that we will include suspense in our clip making it enjoyable for the intended audience to watch.

The next question was one in which links in with the previous question, we asked, 'what do you expect to see in a thriller?'. We again gave tick boxes giving answers in which you could pick from. The answers in which we gave were, good plot, villian, victim, low key lighting, blood, girl, iconography, death and murder. The answer in which had the highest result was death. This gives us an idea of what the audience would like to seem in a good thriller, therefore, we will include death within out narrtative. Blood being the second highest answer, we will include blood also.

We then asked a closed question of 'do you like sequels?' we gave simple tick boxes of yes or no. The majority vote was no. We asked this question in order to know if the audience would watch another film in which leads on from ours. 

Overall, asking these questions to people, we were then able to know what people wanted to see within our thriller and what we have to include to make it as scary as it could possibly could be. Getting a wide range of answers allows us to include an element that everyone would like to see not just a certain age group.