Results of Thriller Questionnaire

To gather more audience research into Thriller movies we created an online questionnaire which we posted on our blog and Facebook. So far we have had 17 responses to our survey and this is useful as it gives us an insight into what we need to do when making our Thriller opening.

 This question tells us how old our respondents are which is useful as we have a target audience of 18-29. The most popular responses are 18 and under and 17-21. We know that their responses will be useful to our research.

This question is useful as it shows how committed the respondee is to watching Thriller films. The most popular response was Inception with 5 replies. This shows that they like pyschological thrillers and gripping stories. There were also some repsonses which are not Thrillers such as Saw which can be classified as strictly Horror. 

This question tells us what we need to include in our Thriller movie. The answers to this question are pretty balanced which tells us that we can use most of these features in our Thriller.

This question shows us which movies are most popular with our audience. The Dark Knight got the most votes which shows us that our audience likes Crime/Psychological type Thrillers. We can use this information whilst writing the story for our Thriller and include crime or mysterious elements.

This question is useful to our group as it eliminates certain aspects from our Thriller movie. One of the most popular responses was "Too much gore and blood" . This tells us that we should not include any violent scenes in our Thriller. Another ascpect was the story, people did not like it being over the top and wish it focused more on story not action. This tells us that we need to perfect our story and not include too many action scenes.

This question tells us what we need to include out of the 4 factors we have been analysing in class. The responses to this question are balanced again with Character and Costume ahead by one response. This tells us we need to create believable characters and dress them appropriately.

This feedback shows us that  good story and action scenes are what people are most expectant to see in our Thriller film. From this we can see that we need to stick to the typical elements of a Thriller film and not border off into unknown territory.

This question tells us what Film History our respondees have seen and particularly like. There are a variety of Thrillers that they have mentioned ranging from Inception to The Godfather. This tells us that we can appeal to many sub-genres of Thriller and hit our target audience.


In conclusion our questionnaire has been very useful for our research. We know what factors of Thrillers we need to include and things to stay away from when creating it. All in all we are thankful for these responses.