Thriller Questionnaire result

1. What would you expect to see in a Mainstream Hollywood thriller film?
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For question 1 I wanted to see how much people actually know about mainstream Hollywood thriller films. This is why I left the question as a open one. This way i could find out exactly what each person knows about mainstream Hollywood thrillers. I found out that a lot of people don't know a lot about mainstream Hollywood thriller films. In many of the answers people were associating thriller films with gangster films and horror films.

Here is a example of some common answers I received.

- Death
- Gore
- Violent
- Action
- Murder
- Good Story line
- Famous Actors
- CGI
- High budget

2. What would you expect to see in a Independent thriller film?
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Like question one not main people knew what to expect in a independent thriller film. Many people confused it with gangster or horror films. I did the same method with question two as i did in question one because i didn't want to give the people doing the questionnaire the answers i wanted them to tell me. So instead of getting them to pick one answer out of a possible four i made them write there own answers.

Here are some of the common results.
- Low Quality filming
- Death
- secretiveness
- Mystery
- Murder
- Cheaper Effects
- Lower Budget
- Unknown actors

3. Which of these locations do you think would be great in a thriller film?

a. A Bank

This answer received 25% of the votes.

b. Abandoned House

This answer received 58% of the votes

c. A Graveyard

This answer received 17% of the votes

d. A train station

This answer received 0% of the votes

Even though all these answers would be good for a thriller. The most common one should have been d. A train station. This is because a thriller was used in London to Brighton and in the opening to The Third Man.

4. What type of women would you expect to see in a thriller?

a. Damsel

This answer received 17%of the votes

b. Femme Fatale

This answer received 66% of the votes

c. Witch

This answer received 17%of the votes

The results show that most people think that the type of woman that you would expect to see in a thriller is a Femme Fatale. This links with a typical Thriller film e.g. Sin City.

5.What type of main character do you think would be in a thriller film?

a. Gangster

This answer received 25% of the votes

b. Debt Collector

This answer received 17% of votes

c. Villain

This answer received 58% of the votes

This shows that most people believe the main character in a Thriller should be a Villain. I admit that this was a very poor question because the main character could be any type of person.

Over all i think that this questionnaire shows that not many people actually know what a Thriller film is actually like. This maybe because they have never watched one or they have classed it as a horror or action or gangster film instead.

What is your age group?

15-25 received 60% of the votes
26-36 received 18% of the votes
37-47 received 22% of the votes
48+ received 0% of votes

15-25 highest and most common age group of people who are interested in thrillers. This will allow us to focus more on this age group when doing our thriller opening