Vox Pops- Miss Miller

Research was carried out to find out what people enjoy in thrillers so we can use it as a guide when we create our own thriller. The information we gathered was very useful as know our group know what we have to base our thriller on and what conventions to add in for it to be successful. We had open and closed questions on our questionnaire to gather quantitative and qualitative data. For our closed questions we created pie charts.

We asked this question so our group can see what age type like thrillers so we can get an idea on what age we should make are target audience and what conventions we should add in our opening sequence to suit them. Our pie chart showed that most of the people we asked were between 11-15 or older which shows that we need to make our opening sequence suited to teenagers and older. From this result we should create our film to be an age certificate of 15. Also its very conventional for a thriller film to be a 15 so as this age range enjoy adrenaline rushes etc. 

We asked this question to identify what gender prefers thrillers and what gender I should target my opening sequence for. The results are almost equal however the results are slightly in males favour. This results suggest to use that we should add in conventions which would suit each genders and characters that males and females can relate to. Therefore we should have a male and female character which would suit both and conventions such as elements of suspense, excitement and a tense atmosphere to interest both genders.

We had this question in our questionnaire so that our group could find out what age certificate we should make our thriller film. From our results we gathered that we should aim our film at either 15 or 18 year old's. However we should try and aim our opening scene at 18 year old's as this most of the percentage of people chose that answer. Our group will try and add conventions of an 18 film such as pain, weapons and strong language as well as typical conventions of a thriller.

We asked this question to gather information about what sub-genre they prefer. Most people like drama thrillers meaning that our sequence will be drama based with elements of excitement and suspense to interest the audience. We will add in an event such as a death to suit our audience. 

Our results from this question show that basically an equal mix of people find hidden identity, low key lighting and camera shots all effective. From this result it shows our group to have all of those 3 things in our thriller opening for it to suit a range of people and to be effective. If we do have hidden identity, low key lighting and different camera shots in our thriller it will be very successful and interesting for the audience.

From the results we gathered here our group can see that we need to definitely have elements of suspense and enigma in our thriller. We could also have a chase scene as most people answered that but it will be unlikely if our thriller will be jumpy as not many people answered with that choice. 

We also asked 4 other questions in which they were open questions so we couldn't create pie charts for them as results were completely different to each other. The four questions we asked were:

              What do you expect to see in thrillers?

         What type of sound do you find effective?

       What type of characters would you expect to find in a thriller film?

4      What type of setting would you like to see?

For all these questions we got different responses so we aren't going to use the results to base our thriller on. We used open questions to get more qualitative results also. Qualitative results are very useful as we can see peoples opinions more clearer as the question is open. It helped me a lot to understand what people want to see in my opening sequence. For example for the question 'what type of setting would you like to see' gathered many different opinions which is useful for us as it showed that the setting can be anything and it will still interest the audience.

The research was very useful for the closed questions as now we know what age we should aim our thriller at, what gender, what thriller genre to create and what conventions to add in. We will definitely use our results to help us create our thriller. If we was to do this differently we would make sure all are questions are closed so we can generalise information and create pies charts for them. 
We found that boys mainly watch thrillers, the age certificates are mainly a 15, people like drama based thrillers, all elements make a thriller film effective and suspense elements interest the audience. From these results I will take on board and may incorporate them into my opening sequence.