Audience Research - Questionnaire

Here is a short questionnaire used as audience research for an insight into people's opinions on thrillers and their particular favourite films and preferred genres by Halim, below are some of the findings. 

Gender		Age		On Average how much TV do you watch per day?		What attracts you to a TV show?
male	7	16	1	0<2		Action	3
female	3	17	4	2<4	3	Comedy	4
		18	5	4<6	4	Famous Actors	2
		19		6<8	3	Reviews
				Other___		Director	1

What types of film do you usually watch in the cinema?		What type of thrillers do you enjoy most?		Do you prefer..?		What is your favourite thriller?
Comedy	2	Psychological thriller	3	Old classics	2	Inception	3
Action	4	Conspiracy thriller	1	New Films	8	Scarface	1
Romance	1	Action thriller	6			The God Father	2
Thriller	3	Crime thriller				Batman trilogy	3
Sci-fi		Romantic thriller				The Da Vinci code	1
Other________________

-   The majority of people asked look for action and comedy in a film when going to watch it in the cinema, therefore we will attempt to implement those desired qualities of films within our film opening

-   The majority of participants claimed to watch mostly action and thriller films; action now proving highly demanded by audience with the increasing use and development of special effects, CGI and camera quality. Therefore, well will try to use or hint that there will be some action in our film opening.

-   Based on current events and the increasing popularity of conspiracy based films and documentaries for examples ‘The Lion sleeps no more’, ‘Esoteric Agenda’ and films like ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘The Ghost’, as a group we decided to go for a conspiracy based film (opening), regardless of the lack of apparent interest in this specifically in comparison to other sub-genres of a thriller shown in the questionnaire. In addition, due to the high popularity of action thrillers and secondly psychological thrillers we will attempt to include certain aspects of these thriller sub-genres in our film opening

-   Predictably of teenagers the large majority stated they preferred new films to old classics so we will discuss elements of successful ‘new’ thrillers such as Inception in order to apply these elements to our thriller opening. However, two of the films mentioned as the participants’ favourite thrillers were in fact ‘classics’ (The Godfather and Scarface) despite the general preference of ‘new films’, this indicates that we must attempt to analyse sections of the films in order to somewhat determine what makes these thrillers so successful and hopefully be able to incorporate some of those elements into our own thriller opening.