Target Audience Results-MissMiller

Target Audience Results

This post is about the questionnaire data that our group found out about the target audience and these results will give our group a clear indication as of what to base our thriller sequence about and we asked the questions to 40 random people to get a spread results of the different questions to make it fair also to get accurate results of each of the questions.



 The first question which was 'how old are you' indicates that out of the 40 people we asked 47% are the ages between 16-19 and this is suitable for the thriller film that our group is creating for the opening sequence. It fits in perfectly for our target audience because we are aiming the sequence at this age boundary.  

The second question indicates that the male gender were more inclined to take the questionnaire with a 60/40 split and it indicates that males like the thriller genre more that females as the results show and this is conventional to the thriller genre because males like the key themes included more than females.

The third question shows that chase scenes was the top answer which is conventional to the thriller genre. The quick fast pace of the chase scene is key to any thriller movie because it creates the suspense that clearly people of the general public enjoy also Enigma and shock was 25% each which is influential within any thriller films and these type of themes will try to be included in our thriller sequence.


The fourth question that our group asked was 'what age certificates do people prefer watching' the most common answer in this question was the age certificate of 15 with 33% because the 15 rated category implies the right amount of explicit content for any one over the age of 15 also the 18 rated certificate was a high percentage because of the themes that are created within the certificate. The 15 rated category is our target audience so it's very ideal that this would be the top answer for our group analysis.

The fifth question was 'what do you expect to see in thrillers' and set at night was the highest answer this is very conventional to the thriller genre due to the fact that most thriller are set in the night because its seen as a more scary experience also the victim and death is highly chosen because its highly involved within the thriller genre and its a key theme that's used in almost every thriller film that is our nowadays.

The type of sounds people want to here in the thriller genre are soundtracks. This has 48%  of the questionnaire analysis. Soundtracks is key within the thriller genre because it creates a high level of suspense and it involves the theme of shock because of the high pitch of the different soundtracks. Soundtracks will be key within our thriller sequence because of the suspenseful story line that we have which includes a killer and victim.

This question was about what characters would people like to see within the thriller genre. From the results a mental character was the highest and this is conventional to the thriller genre because the mental character is usually the killer in thriller films especially in really intense thriller films.

The highest result in this was famous actors, this is because people like to see thriller films with well known actors that are usually experienced in what they are doing also famous actors was the highest vote because of the high profile that they contain also its conventional to the thriller genre to have a high amount of famous actors in these films. Young actors was a third of the result and this is very conventional to the thriller genre because young actors are commonly the victims for example in the film Halloween, a young actor as a victim also will surprise the audience.

In addition psychological thriller was the highest result in this question about sub genres. It is evident that psychological sub genres is a element that we could try to include although it will be very difficult because of how short the actual thriller sequence is but our sequence could contain the conventions that are within the psychological thriller genre.




The last question was about setting and the most picked answer was a dark forest location and this is very key to our group narrative because this is where we plan to set our opening sequence also a dark forest location is good because it's isolated linking back to suspense and drama that could be involved and clearly a dark forest location is good to use because nearly 50% like to see thrillers in dark forests.




To conclude the questionnaire results that our group have gathered indicates a better insight of what to include in our groups narrative. The results infer that people that we asked liked to see a dark forest location which will dramatically help us in creating the sequence as well as people liking a soundtrack within thriller films because they can create elements of surprise and suspense that will be included within our groups thriller opening sequence.