My Survey Results

My Questionnaire Results 

 

          This pie chart shows that over half of our results were age 16 year olds, with our second most popular being people the age of 17. This could be due to us taking out the survey being this age and automatically considering these age groups as our target audience because, we are interested in thrillers ourselves. However, when looking at these results and combining them with other results discovered such as, what certificate should we rate our film, we can see that they mirror each other showing that perhaps the results were not biased.

A survey consists of a series of questions that are put together to discover/draw answers from certain target audiences. As well as used in much of the business world, surveys are also taken by film company's and writers when deciding what their film is going to consist of, how it's rated and weather it will get the effect that they are hoping for. As a group we carried out a survey to do just this. By getting answers and placing them into piechart format we could clearly see the information we had collected and then decide as a group how to incorporate this into our film, 

This pie chart informs us that three quarters of our people we took surveys out on were females. This is can be considered an error as we would normally associate girls with not being a fan of thrillers and that it is primarily more a boy’s choice of film. This could be us as the surveyor’s error as perhaps we more primarily asked females, however, we can see that relevant feedback was still given to us either way.

We are presented from this pie chart the results of the question regarding whether or not people liked film sequels. We can see that over half of the people are FOR film sequels whereas, just under half are against. The reason for the majority yes could be due to the high percentage of thriller films that have made a sequel and it been a success thus, making the people we are interviewing wanting more thriller sequels to be produced. However, on the other hand, we could say that the reason why people perhaps said no is that after watching a thriller film, the ending is normally un-continuable and a sequel could perhaps deflect the first film.

In order to make our sound in our thriller be exciting to the viewer we asked our selected people what they would enjoy hearing. We found out that over half would like to hear unexpected, with soundtrack coming second and expected raining in third. This was quite an expected event as un-expected sounds in thrillers are quite conventional to the genre and create a suspense and tension that allows the film to fright and excite those who are watching it. However, by asking this question it allowed our thoughts to be confirmed which, then meant we knew it was the right decision to follow through with. (We can achieve this through contrapuntal sounding).

This pie chart shows us our public's view on what type of perspective they would like to see the thriller sequence from. We can see that 20% would rather see the narrative from the victims point of view where as, 80% would rather see this from the killers perspective. This helped us as a group structure our ideas better for our thriller opening as we could see what people would like to see and then build our story around it. As a group we listened to the feedback and confirmed that we will tell the whole story via the killers perspective in order to create suspense, tension and a sense of fear as the killer will be un-seen. By doing this we will be meeting thriller codes and conventions alongside, listening to our target market in regards of what they want from us.

Our final pie chart displays the type of thriller that our audience would want to watch. We saw that half of the people would rather watch a Psychological thriller rather than one containing gore. This helped us in deciding our plot line as we could base it on what our viewers would want to watch. These results could be reflected on the fact that we asked mostly girls and maybe a girl’s preference of a thriller would be psychological over something more explicit. However, when looking out our survey results we discovered both a mix of boys and girls were involved in the psychological results meaning, they were non bias and were reliable for usage.

The piecharts show all of the closed questions we used. Closed questions are questions that only have a one word answer or is chosen from options meaning there is no space for personal opinions or elaborations. We used a mixture of both these types of questions (closed) and open questions which are questions that alow the people being asked to elaborate and express their own opinions. Results we gathered from our open questions were things such as, what people enjoy most about thrillers and what they expect to see.

 The purpose of open questions is so that we can gather more information from the person being asked and also so we can get more of their opinion on the subject mater. For example when we asked the open question "what's your favourite thriller film and why" we received answers such as, "My favourite thriller film is scream due to the unexpected plot and the killer being masked so we are always wondering who they are." This answer allowed us to take more from the person asked than say if we just asked what their favourite thriller film was without asking why. Overall a mix of questions allow us to gather all different lengths of informative answers, that will make our production of our thriller easier as we can see what our audience do and don't want.

In summary, the questionnaire allowed me and my group to gather up a reasonable amount of information that will help us in creation of our own opening of a thriller. Now that we have background research that is relatable to what we are doing, we can use it to our advantage as we will be making sure that it is what our target audience has asked for. Many doubts and other queries and considerations we had have been answered by this questionnaire so overall, it has helped us greatly in our creation.