4) Questionnaire pie chart analysis - Ms Miller ------------

Most of the people that we interviewed

as shown in the pie chart, were aged 

between 15-17. This is because the target 

audience for our opening is 15 to 17 year olds, 

so by asking them we could get a better understanding

of what kind of things they like so we could base our opening 

around that. 

In this question we wanted to aim more for females

as in our opening the victim is a female. This mean females 

will be more likely to empathise with the main character. 

However we would have liked to have made it more of

a balance between males and females to give us a slightly 

better ideas of what males want to see in thriller films. 

In this question it was helpful that the majority of people said 

they like the age group of characters to be teenagers because

in all of our individual narratives there were teenage characters 

involved. It also confirmed that we will be using a teenage character

in our opening clip. 

Throughout our opening clip we have planned lots of conventional

suspense building techniques and as the antagonist is a spirit we will

need to build the suspense in other ways as you can not see the thing

the main character will be battling with. This is why lots of people saying

that suspense is there favourite thing in a thriller helped us make our 

decision. However only 8% of people said that a female victim was

there favourite thing about a thriller which does not support our idea

of having a female victim. 

One of the inspirations for our opening is the film

paranormal activity. In the film there is a great deal

of silence used to create suspense, and the fact 30%

of people said that was most effective, helped us 

make our decision to use a large amount of silence

to help create suspense. 

40% of the people asked said that high pitched music
was there preference in a thriller film. I can use this
information in my thriller by using high pitched noises
as the majority of people said this was most effective.
It was important to my research as we wanted to find out
the different ways we could put the audience on edge.

57% of our target audience said that a deserted house is the

best setting for a thriller so we have decided to use that 

setting for our thriller clip. I believe that a house is a very

relatable setting which increases the fear and empathy the

audience will feel towards the main characters. 

The supernatural thriller is the kind of thriller clip

we have chosen to make. Our choice was backed up

by the majority of people saying that it was the best 

type of thriller . I feel like the supernatural element

plays on peoples minds more and helps to create the 

suspense and fear.