Thriller opening scene - Audience research

Question 1:
We asked the age ranges of our audience as we wanted to know the opinions of thrillers amongst a different range of ages therefore getting a more reliable opinion on our story and what we want to base our story around. The answers were that we asked 8 16-21 year olds, 1 22-30 year old and 2 31-49 year olds. We thought this was a good range but we could have extended it towards the 0-15 and 50+ year olds, however if we extended it too far towards the 0-15 year olds some of the people might not be old enough to watch certain thrillers and won't have a good view of all genres of thriller.

Question 2:
We then asked what sub-genre of thriller that they liked the options were: horror, mystery, crime, comedy and supernatural. The horror sub-genre got 4 votes, mystery got 6 and crime got 1, this means that we can do our original idea as it mainly has a mystery theme throughout.

Question 3:
Our next question was about how thrillers make them feel, we chose this as when we are designing our storyboard and filming our shots we can try to change camera shots, angles and ideas to suit what they like to feel. Our data showed that two person liked nervous, six liked being intrigued and three people liked to be tense, this means that we are going to have to make sure that we make our shots to be as intriguing as possible by not giving too much information about the protagonist and showing inserts of the location that would be considered to be interesting yet scary.

Question 4:
Our next question was about peoples opinions on our narrative for our opening scene, this question is crucial as we can get their opinions to see if our idea is any good and if they want to they can tell us some helpful suggestions as to how we can change our narrative to make it better. Overall they seemed to like the story as there was no votes under 3 out of five (1= terrible and 5= very good), we got two votes for 3 out of 5, six votes for 4 out of 5 and three votes for 5 out of 5.

Question 5:
Question 5 which was our final question was to do with font, we included three types of font which we quite liked for our thriller, however these are not definite choices as we are still looking for fonts. Font 1 got five votes, font 2 got two votes and font 3 got four votes, if we do not find another font that we want to use then font 1/3 will be what we will use, in addition if we find a new font then we will compare the new font to the winner of the questionnaire font to see what people like best.