Thriller research: Audience Survey

We decided that we should ask the audience some questions that could help us and give us an insight of what type of thriller the audience would like, Whether it is a sub genre or hybrid.We aimed these questions to people who would only be able to watch a 15 rated film. The questions we asked were:

1. Would you watch a thriller?
2. What would you expect to see in a thriller?
3. If you could combine another genre with a thriller, what would it be?
4. In a thriller there tends to be a heroine or a hero, what one would you prefer to watch in a thriller and why?
5. What would be your favourite location for a thriller film?
6. Do you think music in a thriller film creates ambience?

We took videos of the audience answering these questions (they will be uploaded soon)

When we asked the audience these questions we realised that maybe these questions were too straight forward therefore giving a one word answer instead of saying what they really want to see. This is because we found that the answers we got have not really helped us in knowing what the audience want. From looking back we also thought it would be a good idea to ask what films they like as often people think they do not like thrillers, however they may not know that some films are thrillers. Therefore we hope to make some new questions which we hope will help us find out what the audience really like and also try different age ranges and see what they think.