Audience Questionaire Analysis

Audience Questionnaire Analysis

1) Which age group are you in? 19 said ‘15-17’ 1 said ’18-21’

-This showed us the age of our target audience showing us that our survey was aimed at the right age group as our target audience was 16-18 year olds.

2) Do you enjoy thrillers? 5 said No 15 said Yes

-This showed us that most people in our target audience enjoy thriller films, making our choice of target audience effective as the genre of the sequence we were producing would appeal to our target audience.

3) Do you think that violence is an essential part of a thriller film? 11 said Yes 9 said No

- This question had mixed answers. It showed us that violence wasn't absolutely necessary but it should probably be included to make everyone happy.

4) What do you think makes a good thriller? 8 said Suspense 6 said Jumpy Moments 3 said Eerie Music 1 said setting and mood 2 said other

-As most people said that suspense made a good thriller we realised that we needed to include it in our opening sequence.


5) What do you think makes an opening sequence effective?
13 Said Character Based while 7 Said Narrative Based.

- This showed us that a character based opening sequence would be more effective than a narrative based sequence. although as the results were mixed we thought we should implement elements of both into our sequence.

6) How much of the plot do you think should be given away in the opening sequence? 5 said one clue 15 said not a lot 0 said a lot

- This showed us that we should give barely anything away in our opening sequence, as it would create enigma and make the audience want to keep watching. No one wanted to learn a lot about the film from the opening sequence and so we decided that we should use a slow reveal to introduce our audience to the characters and the narrative.

Initial Ideas

Our groups’ original ideas for the opening sequence of our thriller film were two stories entitled, ‘Vengeance’ and ‘Morgeage’ respectively. Whilst Morgeage centred round a ghostly protagonist and a haunted setting, Vengeance was a more realistic concept, and proved to be the route pursued.
The story of Vengeance originally was that of two friends who robbed a shop, with the shopkeeper being killed in the panic. The intended twist was that they killer of the pair would snitch on the other after being interrogated by police in return for his freedom, causing him to serve a lengthy jail sentence. This would conclude the opening sequence with the plan for the remainder of the film being about this character trying to track down his former friend, blaming him for losing a decade of his life.
This eventually moulded into the final draft. After considerations including how we’d go about obtaining police facilities for certain shots we wrote to the Metropolitan Police asking to use cells for our work however as of today are yet to receive a response so are going to try and film around this inconvenience.
There were some other brief ideas discussed such as a government conspiracy-based story but we felt that with our filming restrictions Vengeance was the best idea to go forward with.