Target audience results - Miss Miller

Me, Cara and Joe wrote our questions in our questionnaire to help us find out what people would like to see in thriller films so that we could use the most popular conventions in our opening, and who our target audience should be.

My questionnaire results:

The most people we asked our questions to were aged 16-18 which will be our target audience. The least amount of people we asked was aged 10-12 this is because they might not be the appropriate age to see some of the violence or language that will be in thriller films.

This shows that the majority of the people we asked were male which may make the answers to the other questions slightly bias, or show that the answers are mostly what males want to see when watching thrillers as opposed to females.

This shows that people would rather watch 15 rated films as they contain more psychological thriller conventions and paranormal happenings instead of gore and sexual scenes often seen in 18 rated thrillers. The chart also shows that the people we questioned would rather watch thrillers that scare them opposed to more action typed thrillers normally seen in 12 rated films.

This shows us that the people we questioned prefer mystery compared to gore in thriller films, this helps us as we know to use more mysterious conventions in our thriller opening and not a lot of gore as it will appeal more to our target audience. The use of mysterious conventions will create suspense and enigma towards the characters and our audience.

This shows us that enigma and mystery is preferred in thrillers more than victims escaping, shock and killings. Which again helps us present our opening more towards our target audience by using mysterious conventions to create enigma.

This shows us that our target audience don't always want to see a sequel, this helps us as we know to pack in as many different conventions and characters within the opening so the audience won't have to see a sequel.

This shows that our audience prefer hearing unknown paranormal sounds in thrillers instead of screams or fight sounds, which again allows us to present our thriller more to our target audience by using unknown paranormal sounds to create enigma and tension as the audience don't know what could be making such a strange sound.

This shows us that our audience prefer to see teenagers in thriller films because they can relate to them as they are the same age and can see themselves in the same situations the characters face. This again helps us as we can use teenagers in our opening to appeal to our target audience.

Our audience said they would prefer to see possessed children most because of the suspense and mystery. Also the answers to this questions were very close which means we can use different villains such as stalkers which is more realistic than possessed children as it could happen in real life.















This shows us that an outdoor forest is preferred from our audience as it is dark and will create enigma and tension as of what could be lurking around in the forest. The second most amount of people preferred a normal house because they can relate to the characters and the storyline which will make it more scary and fearful.


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After looking through all of the results from our questionnaire, me Joe and Cara can focus more specifically on the conventions and mise-en-scene elements to put into our thriller opening so that it will appeal more to our target audience. We have found that our target audience prefer to see teenage characters so that they can relate to them, paranormal sounds to create suspense and mystery, a possessed child villain as it creates enigma, an outdoor forest setting as it will be dark and build tension and mysterious conventions opposed to gore as it will create more excitement.