Questionnaire Update and Results

 1. What is your favourite movie genre?

·         Thriller-1

·         B. Horror-4

·         C. Drama-0

·         D. Comedy-2

·         E. Action-9

2. What do you see in the opening of a movie that you enjoy? Two lines max

• Interesting opening credits
• Nice establishing shots
• Something that introduces the story
• Nothing should be too simple
• Cool opening effects
• Story should be not too simple
• Opening music should be good
• Music should be suspenseful
• It shouldn’t be too inactive
• Something should happen
• There should be lots of confusion
• It should be really smooth
• The plot should be clever
• The music should have something to do with the rest of the film
• There should be something impressive right from the start
• It should grab your attention

3.  If you had to choose a Thriller sub-genre what would it be?

• Crime-Thriller-13
• Psychological Thriller-3

4. If you had to choose, what would be your favourite Thriller movie?

·         Saw films-7

·         Donnie darko

·         Inception

·         Kill bill

·         Van helsing

·         The matrix

·         BBC’s production of the 39 steps

·         The great escape

·         The godfather

·         Memento

5. What do you like about that movie? I.e. the tension it creates. Two lines max

• the plot
• the music
• the action
• the horror
• the use of plot
• the storyline
• the story
• the story
• the way it all fit together
• how clever it was
• the action
• the action
• how clever the story and plot was
• how scary the villain was
• how terrifying the villain was
• how strange it was

6. What setting do you think is best for a high tension thriller? One line max

• in a dark warehouse
• in a small village
• inside a characters head
• it should turn out to all be a dream
• in a creepy alley
• spread out across the country
• in a big city
• it should move from place to place
• a abandoned theme park
• graveyard
• wide open space like a field
• abandoned school
• forest
• abandoned factory
• old museum
• spooky wood

8. What in the opening to a Thriller would keep you asking questions? Two lines max

• I’m not sure-6
• Not much of the plot should be given away-4
• You should be confused by it-4
• A complex plot-2

9. Give your age?

• 11-3
• 12-1
• 13-1
• 14-1
• 15-5
• 16-3
• 17-2

10. Your status (lower class/middle class/upper class)?

• Lower-5
• Middle-11
• Upper-0

11. Do you like intelligent well thought out films?

·         Yes-12

·         No-4

13. Do you like foreign films?

·         Yes-4

·         No-12

14. What is your favourite type of music?

·         Rock-4

·         Pop-4

·         Rap-6

·         Classic-2

·         Country-0

15. What was the last film you watched?

·         Don’t remember-6

·         Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2-3

·         The smurf movie

·         Cars 2

·         The hangover part 2

·         The green hornet

·         The inbetweeners movie

·         Keeping mum

·         Kill bill

16. What was the last thriller film you watched?

·         Don’t remember-11

·         The matrix

·         The godfather

·         Saw 4

·         V for vendetta

·         Donnie Darko

17. What did you like about it? Two lines max

·         The characters

·         The storyline

·         The scares

·         The storyline

·         The storyline

18. What did you not like about it? Two lines max

·         How complicated it was

·         The characters weren’t likeable

·         The complicated story

·         nothing

·         nothing

From our market research we found out that people like establishing shots in the opening of a movie, also that they would like a kind of action aspect to the opening, also people like the plots of the opening. We have tried to incorporate everything we have found out from our research into our Thriller Opening.