In my group we have created a questionnaire to help us with out with the age certificate with our thriller film. It gathered ideas from different people from the public about your typical thriller films, and what they enjoy, hate and relate to in them. This is obviously going to help us with the ideas of our film and which conventions to include from our results. They varied from open and closed questions giving the audience set answers or letting them freely speak.
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This question enables us to see what groups of gender we asked the most to answer our questionnaire. The majority was male, this was too see if their reactions to thrillers were different compared to those of females. This would have helped us with our thriller as it can help us prioritise for males and this will engaged them with the film more.
We have used this in our results as this will give us an idea on how to make our thriller more exciting and engaging for the audience to relate to. Our most watched films from the questionnaire was age category of 15. This makes us realise that we can add certain things to our opening scene that we may not of been able to if it was any lower age category. This has enabled us to give a wider range of ideas in our thriller and not have to hold back in any gruesome scenes.
We have used this in our results as this has given us ideas on what to include in our thriller. This has then made our thriller opening sequence more interesting as we have been able to gather ideas from the public and that way we can cater for the publics wants and needs. Whether it be suspense, tension, the plot or the villain we have specifically taken on their advice and put it in our opening scene.
This research was conducted as we wanted to ask the public what they expect to see in a thriller. This relates back to the conventions and we have noticed that they expected death to be a key element in thrillers. This has helped us to plan our own thriller as we have included a death scene, even in the first part of the opening, to entice the audience and make them believe that there is a reason behind this death, and that more murders are going to happen in future scenes to come.
This question was aimed for us to see how we could end the thriller. This has helped us to not leave our thriller on a cliff hanger due to people believeing that sequals are not as good as the first film. This ensured us that we had to make sure the audience will be more engaged when watching the film as we wouldn't of been able to make it into another film (sequal).
You have provided a basic recount of the closed questions asked in your questionnaire, explaining what the results show and briefly mentioning what this may imply for your sequence. You need to explain HOW you will incorporate these results into your sequence.
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1) Explain how you will incorporate results into your sequence
2) Include a paragraph on open questions with at lease two examples of questions and answers and an analysis
3) Make sure you explain whether your results were expected/different in a summary as well as the importance and use of carrying out such research