Audience Survey Number One

 Avey, Alice, Rhiannon and I decided we needed more research before we went into more detail on each genre, and also before we decided on what genre we wanted to do. We wanted to know if the research would help us combine our thriller with a sub-genre or a hybrid and so we created a survey for our audience to hopefully get some positive feedback that would help us get more ideas. We also wanted to see what audiences would go watch in the cinema and whether we should make a film to target our age group or a different age group. These are the questions we decided to ask in our survey and we also filmed these, which I will put up as soon as I can.

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, which one would you prefer to watch in a thriller? why?

5. What would be your favourite location for a thriller film?

6. Do you think music in a genre film creates ambience?

This is survey number one. This wasn't helpful at all because Becca and Jodie didn't watch Thriller films and so we didn't find out any of the information we needed to to help us in our research. We then had to ask other people so that we could have another point of view from someone else.

This is survey 2. This is more helpful because it was easier to get the right information from Tim because he watches thriller films. We didn't really find out much information because it wasn't anything new that we heard and by this time we realised that maybe we were asking to brief questions, or questions that required a specific answer rather than something that could be left open minded and a long answer, giving us some new information that would help us in our thriller opening. 

We then went on to do another survey using the same questions. Ben was useful because he watched thriller films, however we didn't get as good answers as we thought we would and so this didn't really help us. Although we were getting answers from different people, we found that most people replied the same to each question and so after doing one thing we weren't getting many replies on each question, developing our ideas and therefore keeping our knowledge the same. These are Ben's ideas on each question.

This is our last survey of asking these questions and we decided to ask Sophie, Lydia, Caitlin and Kirsten. Although they were all sitting together, this is the group we got the most answers from therefore making this video the most useful to our group and our research. The answers from this table were more developed, and they were a useful group because they watched thrillers rather than when we asked people who didn't watch them. This is our last survey.

We then decided that it was perhaps to brief to get our research from as the answers were mostly the same, such as all the boys saying they would prefer a heroine instead of a hero purely because they were female, and the same going for females choosing a hero again, purely because they were male. Our group also found that we asked too specific questions within the survey, meaning that we weren't going to get a wide variety of answers and that we weren't going to find out any new information that we didn't know before. We found that we needed to change the questions, find people that were interested in thriller films, or perhaps ask questions about favorite films, then research if any of those were thrillers and then find out more about it. Avey, Alice, Rhiannon and I have decided that our questions were to targeting and brief, and we are going to follow this up with another survey which will try and help up out with our genre even more.