Target Audience Research

 Here are the results from our questionnaire that we devised (see below)

Here is the questionnaire:

From our results, you can see that our target audience is definitely teenagers which may be down to the fact that as teenagers ourselves we can identify what they would enjoy seeing more based on what we would enjoy seeing in the thriller opening. The majority of the people we asked said their favourite type of thriller film was a psychological thriller, this was 30% of our recipients, around 25% of them said horror thrillers. This fits nicely with our idea as we want to make it seem as though our lead character has a mental disorder and a lot of it will be based on what's going on her head. As well as this, we hope to include some of the conventions of a horror-thriller film like a lot of gore and weapons. The most frequent answer to 'What is your favourite thriller film?' was Taken, which involves a hostage situation, which is what our thriller opening is based around. This shows that our target audience have a direct link to what we want for our thriller.
75% of our target audience liked or loved the idea of a male victim instead of a female one, and 80% thought the idea of cheating was wrong- one even went as far as saying 'death row' directly linking with the feelings and emotions of our female character. But overall the all these ideas help to link the feelings of our audience with those in relation to each of our characters. However, I think that we need to create more sympathy for the male and his mistress as although they did do something wrong, they shouldn't die because of it.
80% of our target audience like the idea of the hostage situation, helping to gain an interest in our film opening, this is good as this means they hopefully wouldn't get bored. The other 20% said things like 'its overused' which is true, many of the thriller movies I've seen include hostage situations- but hopefully, if we do it in the right way it'll be unique and grab the audience's attention.
80% of our target audience like the idea of suspense being built in the beginning of a film- which correlates to our idea of leaving people on the edge of their seats wanting more. Hopefully, after productions, the people in our target audience enjoy what we have created and feel as though the feedback they have given to us has influenced our artistic choices throughout.