Analysis of our questionnaire-Amber, Aimee and Maya

From our questionnaires that we handed out to other students from our school, we were able to find out the following:

We found that the most popular thriller films were:

• The Dark Knight

• Saw

Psycho

Donnie Darko

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Question: Are any of your favourite films thrillers?


From this chart, we are able to see that from the majority of the people that filled out the questionnaire, their favourite films are thrillers, suggesting that it is a popular genre, and that there is a wide audience for it.

Question: What is your favourite way of watching films?

This chart shows that the most popular way of watching a film is on TV, although it is closely followed by DVD/Blu Ray, and then by cinema. This will be helpful for us to find out who our target audience will be.

• What aspect of a thriller do you enjoy the most?
  
  

It seems that the most popular aspects of thrillers were Tension and Action for both genders. Fear-factor and Adventure came up as joint-third as preferred aspects for females. Fear-factor as third, with mystery and adventure, coming up joint-fourth as preferred aspects for males. This means that our opening sequence should include some of these aspects in order to keep our audience captivated.

• Was type of thriller do you enjoy the most?

This question will help us determine who our target audience is and what they want to see in a thriller film.
This graph shows that action and horror are the most popular types of thriller amongst females, whereas Action and Sci-Fi was the most popular type amongst males. This is a positive result as our opening sequence is a mix of horror/sci-fi/action.

• Do you like thrillers?

Almost 75% of people like the thriller genre. We found that both females and males had a higher percentage of people who did like thrillers, rather than not. This shows that our target audience could be teenagers from both genders.