Question 1 – Which gender are 
you? 
• We asked a total of 50 
participants, 25 of which were 
male and 25 were female in order 
to gain a gender balanced 
response as we want our 
production to appeal to both 
sexes.
Question 2 – Which is your 
favourite film genre? 
Film Genre 
Horror 
Comedy 
Thriller 
Sci-fi 
Drama 
Action 
Romance 
Musical 
As shown by the pie chart, 
horror was the most 
popular film genre with 15 
votes, followed by thriller 
with 12 votes. Where as 
sci-fi was the most 
unpopular with only 2 
votes. 
Reflecting on this we have 
decided to create the 
opening of a horror thriller 
as they were the most 
popular with our audience.
Question 3 – Which is your favourite 
sub-genre of the thriller category? 
14 
12 
10 
8 
6 
4 
2 
0 
Sub-Genre 
Sub-Genre 
As shown in the bar 
chart, our questionnaire 
proved that haunted 
and horror are the 
audiences favourite 
sub-genre of the thriller 
category. Therefore we 
are going to ensure 
that these feature in 
our production. On the 
contrary the sub-genre 
on ‘murder’ only 
received 4 votes and 
wasn't very popular 
with our audience so 
we have taken this into 
consideration and will 
not have this in our 
opening.
Question 4 - In a thriller film, what 
character dynamics do you like to see? 
Dynamic Tally Total 
Hero 11111 5 
Heroine 111111 6 
Victim 111111111111111 15 
Comedy Character 1111 4 
Bad guy 11111111 8 
Psychopath 111111111111 12 
We asked our audience what character dynamics they like to see in a 
thriller film in order for us to gain an understanding of the type of 
characters that we want to feature in our opening. Results show that a 
‘victim’ and a ‘psychopath’ character were the most popular.
Question 5 – what qualities make a 
good horror thriller film? 
• We made this an open question in order to give our audience 
a chance to express their views in their own words so we 
could gain a more personal response from our audience. We 
gained a range of results from this question however the 
most popular and reoccurring results were: 
 A catching story line 
 ‘Based on a true story’ 
 A twist in the story line 
 Not too far-fetched or unrealistic 
 Fast paced and exciting 
 A build up of tension to the climax 
As these were the most popular features from our audience we 
are going to ensure that our opening contains these.
Question 6 -Which of the following 
themes would you find most interesting? 
25 
20 
15 
10 
5 
0 
Theme 
Theme 
We asked this 
question to our 
audience in order to 
gain an 
understanding of 
which theme would 
be the most suitable 
for our whole 
production. As the 
bar chart shows 
‘haunted’ was the 
most popular. 
Because of this we 
have decided to make 
this the theme of our 
production.
From completing this survey it has 
enabled us to consider and 
understand what is most popular 
with the audience in order for us to 
create a production that will be 
successful. When creating our 
opening we will take all parts of this 
questionnaire into consideration to 
make sure our opening is compatible 
with our target audience.

Questionnaire Results

  • 2.
    Question 1 –Which gender are you? • We asked a total of 50 participants, 25 of which were male and 25 were female in order to gain a gender balanced response as we want our production to appeal to both sexes.
  • 3.
    Question 2 –Which is your favourite film genre? Film Genre Horror Comedy Thriller Sci-fi Drama Action Romance Musical As shown by the pie chart, horror was the most popular film genre with 15 votes, followed by thriller with 12 votes. Where as sci-fi was the most unpopular with only 2 votes. Reflecting on this we have decided to create the opening of a horror thriller as they were the most popular with our audience.
  • 4.
    Question 3 –Which is your favourite sub-genre of the thriller category? 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Sub-Genre Sub-Genre As shown in the bar chart, our questionnaire proved that haunted and horror are the audiences favourite sub-genre of the thriller category. Therefore we are going to ensure that these feature in our production. On the contrary the sub-genre on ‘murder’ only received 4 votes and wasn't very popular with our audience so we have taken this into consideration and will not have this in our opening.
  • 5.
    Question 4 -In a thriller film, what character dynamics do you like to see? Dynamic Tally Total Hero 11111 5 Heroine 111111 6 Victim 111111111111111 15 Comedy Character 1111 4 Bad guy 11111111 8 Psychopath 111111111111 12 We asked our audience what character dynamics they like to see in a thriller film in order for us to gain an understanding of the type of characters that we want to feature in our opening. Results show that a ‘victim’ and a ‘psychopath’ character were the most popular.
  • 6.
    Question 5 –what qualities make a good horror thriller film? • We made this an open question in order to give our audience a chance to express their views in their own words so we could gain a more personal response from our audience. We gained a range of results from this question however the most popular and reoccurring results were:  A catching story line  ‘Based on a true story’  A twist in the story line  Not too far-fetched or unrealistic  Fast paced and exciting  A build up of tension to the climax As these were the most popular features from our audience we are going to ensure that our opening contains these.
  • 7.
    Question 6 -Whichof the following themes would you find most interesting? 25 20 15 10 5 0 Theme Theme We asked this question to our audience in order to gain an understanding of which theme would be the most suitable for our whole production. As the bar chart shows ‘haunted’ was the most popular. Because of this we have decided to make this the theme of our production.
  • 8.
    From completing thissurvey it has enabled us to consider and understand what is most popular with the audience in order for us to create a production that will be successful. When creating our opening we will take all parts of this questionnaire into consideration to make sure our opening is compatible with our target audience.