Questionnaire Evaluation

Why did you ask this question?


1. Which gender are you?
We decided to ask this question because this way we could find out if men and woman had different ideas on which thrillers they like best and what they liked to see in them.
2. How old are you?
We felt that this was an important question to ask because different ages prefer different kinds of thrillers and if our thriller contained something each age would like, it would apply to a wider audience and so more people would enjoy it.
3. Which of the following do you find the scariest?
In a thriller it is important to have an aspect of fear in it, so the reason we asked this was to see if what we have done will scare others and thrill them.
4. What is your favourite film genre?
We asked this because it would tell us what people liked the most and so if ‘thrillers’ came up with quite high amount of people liking it then we know that a fair amount of people will like our film opening.
5. What is your favourite sub-genre of thriller?
We asked this because as our thriller is psychological, if people voted for this a lot then we have a good chance of people liking our thriller. If not then we could incorporate other aspects into our thriller.
6. What character dynamics do you like to see?
We felt this would be a good question to ask to see what character is most popular in a thriller so we could work our characters around this.
7. What makes you want to watch thrillers?
The reason why we asked this was to find out what actually made viewers want to watch a thriller so we could find out what we needed in ours that would encourage others to watch it.
8. Do you think Romance is suitable in a thriller?
Why we asked this question is to find out whether romance is suitable to have in a thriller or not, if we were to film the whole thriller this could be an important aspect whether to include it or not.
9. What is your favourite thriller film and why?
This was an open question and we asked this to see what kinds of thrillers other people like to watch, this way we can create one which may have similar aspects to the most popular result.
10. What do you think makes a good thriller?
We asked this to see if what we have put in our thriller fits with what a majority of other will like as well, this will make our opening popular and likeable.
What have you learnt from your data?


1. From our data we have learnt that more females than males answered our questionnaire and this could affect our results and females are not as likely to enjoy thrillers as much as males are.
2. The ages range from 12 to 35+ and the majority of people who took this questionnaire were between 16-19, this is good because as we are between these ages our thriller should appeal to an audience of our age, but it’s also bad because then the audience is quite limited.
3. Out of all the people we asked most of them thought that the scariest and most entertaining thing in a thriller is murderers, since we do not have any murderers in our thriller it may not be so popular.
4. Action and thriller were both very high in this question which is good for our thriller and a large audience will like it.
5. The favourite sub-genre was action and it was a very high percentage who said this, next was horror and psychological. As our thriller is a psychological I was quite pleased it had a lot of people liking it.
6. The character dynamic that came out top was the hero, I thought it would be the highest as most people do root for the heroin a film, the comedian of the group came second and I feel this is good because comedy is an important aspect in a film, however, not so much in a thriller.
7. We also learnt that the main reason why people watch thrillers is mainly down to the main actor in a film, then storyline comes close after and no one bothered about the soundtrack, however I feel the soundtrack is one of the most important thing in a movie sometimes, especially in tense films.
8. A very high percent of people said that romance is suitable in a thriller, but our thriller does not incorporate this in the opening so it does not apply.
9. All the people picked different favourite horrors but lots had the same reason why they picked it, because of a good story line, they liked the actors in it or it was very tense.
10. People more-or-less picked the same answers for the final question and we think it has a good storyline and suspense, perhaps it’s not very jumpy but it is mysterious.
Compare what you have learnt to your thriller, does it match? How can you improve it?


All in all, our thriller does quite match up with what the audience wants, its psychological, has tense moments, suspense and mystery added into it. To improve it though we need to work on the soundtrack so that people notice it more and the affect it gives off to the audience to increase the tension and so people will take notice of it and make them feel slightly more eerie and scared.