Audience ResearchGroup 5Cuan, Dominika and Mia

Are you Male or Female?

Attending an all girls school resulted in us asking only girls that fit into the category of children. Therefore making the total number of females that we asked larger. 72% of the people we asked were female.

Which of the following films have you seen?

From our research we can clearly see the most popular films among a certain age group. Which helps us to find out what type of sub-genre they are most attracted to: • Children- Lucy (action)• Teenagers- Black Swan

(psychological) • Adults – Mr & Mrs.Smith

(romantic)

Which platform do you commonly use to view films?

The older generation were not accustomed to the internet as it has only started to be used commonly in homes in recent years. They gravitate towards cinemas more as it is what they have grown up with and taught to love and appreciate with movies as a whole (used to the experience).

Which do you believe is the most effective in order to build suspense?

As one of the main conventions of a thriller is ‘suspense’ through this question we are able to identify the most effective way of creating it according to various people. All ag groups seem to like a different way that suspense is created, which means that when creating the opening for our thriller, we will need to focus on all the aspects: sound, music and special effects/ editing techniques. This gives us a wider range of things that we can do, and work with. However as the main target audience is teenager we will make sure that we use

What do you think is critical to be included in an opening of a new film?

Through this question we are able to tell what people are looking for in an opening sequence, giving us guidelines of what to include in ours. From the results you can easily tell that all the age groups like the idea of a ‘Ambiguity/cliff hanger’, which makes it clear that it is something that needs to be included in our own thriller opening.

What do you think should not be included in the opening of a new film?

On the contrary, you can see that not all age groups agree on what should not be included in a thriller opening. As our main target are teenagers we have decided that in our own opening we will not use a ‘plot summary’.