Audience Reseach

In our groups, we filmed an interview of teenagers, male & female, and asked them few questions on what they like about thriller, their favorite genre, where they view films and if they like certain thriller devices, such as cliffhangers. from this audience research, we've found the different views and aspects.

In the video we interviewed different people, different age groups to find out what they like about thrillers, and what they're favourite genre is and everyone had different opinions. the interview was very useful and interesting to hear peoples opinions. From the interview we can see some people didn't think title sequences were that important, however camera angles were because i think someone said, "you don't want to see uneven shots". everyone had their one opinions in what they notice in films and what they think is important and effective.

In our groups we then gathered and made a questionnaire asking the following questions; 

Name (optional): ______________

Gender:______________________

Age:_________________________

1.       Do you like to meet all of the characters within the opening scenes of a movie?

 Yes/No/Other

2.       Do you enjoy the use of enigma codes? (aspects that make you question what is going on)

Yes/No/Other

3.       Do you feel that a variety of camera shots makes a difference to a scene?

Yes/No/Other

4.       Do you feel the first 5 minutes of a film is crucial in making the decision as to whether to continue watching or not?

Yes/No/Other

5.       Which way do you hear of new films? (Can circle more than one)

TV advert/Social websites/Internet adverts/Word of mouth/Other

6.       Would you watch a low budget film?

Yes/No/Other

7.       Do you feel that a soundtrack adds to your emotional response to a film?

Yes/No/Other

8.       Do you feel that a title effects whether or not you will watch a film?

Yes/No/Other

9.       Do you enjoy the use of cliffhangers?

Yes/No/Other

10.   Do you like the use of voice overs?

Yes/No/Other

11.   What kind of Thrillers do you enjoy?

Conspiracy/Horror/Psychological/Crime/Other

Findings:

Then in our groups we splitted up and asked students each questions and this is my findings i had found.

Question 1 Do you like to meet all characters in beginning?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	5	2
Age 19-30	3	1	3
Age 31+	1	0	2

 This shows that most groups like to meet the characters near the beginning no matter what age.

Question 2 Do you enjoy use of enigma codes?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	5	2
Age 19-30	5	1
Age 31+	3	1

 This shows again that most age groups like the use of enigma codes.

Question 3 Do you feel a variety of Camera angles make a difference?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	5	1
Age 19-30	4	1
Age 31+	6		3

 These findings show that varieties of camera angles make a difference in the movie.

Question 4 Is the beginning of the movie important as to whether you will continue watching?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	5
Age 19-30	5
Age 31+	4

 This shows every age are wary of the opening and that it's vital, that they can understand the film.

Question 5 Which way do you hear of movies?	TV adverts	Social Networks	Word of mouth	Internet ads	Other
Age 16-18	6	8	3	4	4
Age 19-30	4	4	2	2
Age 31+	7	2	2		2

 This table also varies. We can see that targeting younger teens the social world is highly important, the elder the less likely use the internet is recognised but more so TV ads.

Question 6 Would you watch a low budget movie?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	2	6
Age 19-30	2	4
Age 31+	3	3

 This show's tat more people would want to see high budgeted major blockbuster films instead of low budget films.

Question 7 Effects of a soundtrack	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	2	4
Age 19-30	4	2
Age 31+	6		1

 This shows that the soundtrack is important to nearly every age except for some teens aged 16-18

Question 8 Effects of a title?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	2	3	1
Age 19-30	2	2
Age 31+	2	1	2

 This table shows that the title is not that important to few people because maybe they don't really notice the titles.

Question 9 Cliffhangers?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18	4	1
Age 19-30	6
Age 31+	3	2

Cliffhangers are important to people because it gets them excited for the sequels or gets them thinking what happened to the character/s 

Question 10 Voice overs?	Yes	No	Other
Age 16-18		5
Age 19-30	2	6
Age 31+	2	5

 Voice overs are not that liked because people find it annoying sometimes and the voiceover sometimes lags in the film making it complicated to understand what just happened.

Question 11 Favourite sub genre	Conspiracy	Psychological	Crime	Horror	Other
Age 16-18			3	6	1
Age 19-30	2	3	2
Age 30+		2	2		4

 This table shows different sub genres are favoured by different age groups, such as teens love to watch horror instead of crime, while older people love to watch other sub genres instead of horror.

From these finding i can see what we need to do in our groups to make the opening of our thriller sophisticated and keep our audience in their seat.