Primary research - Survey responses

Amy, Braedie and Pippa

Q1. What is your gender? These answers showed us that the majority of the people who answered were females. This benefits us as we are currently using actresses, so this will allow the audience watching to

relate more to the characters.

Q2. What is your age?This shows us that the majority of our audience are in the

age bracket 16-18. Our actresses are aged 16, so this allows this age group to relate more to the characters we

are using.

Q3. What is your favourite genre of film?From these responses we can see that the two most popular genres are thriller and romance. This somewhat supports the plan of our film as it is from the thriller genre. However we have not included an element of

romance. The second most popular response was comedy. We attempted to include an element of comedy, however, it did not fit with

the plot of our film.

Q4. What do you specifically enjoy about your favourite genre?We received a range of responses to this question. A few of our responses worked with

the thriller genre such as ‘Being on the edge of my seat’, ‘the unexpected’ and ‘its exciting because there is always a sense of mystery’. These all work with the genre of

our film as a sense of mystery is created through the use of an all black figure. This could leave the audience on the edge of their seats as the two main characters are unaware of

this figure. Therefore, ‘the unexpected’ is going to occur.

Q5. What gender do you prefer the main role to be in a film?

The answer to this question had a halfway split of male and female. However, as we all wanted to be a part of our film, we

decided to still include our three female roles, and no male roles.

Q6. What age actors / actresses do you prefer to watch?

The most common age in answer to this question was 18-30 year olds. However, the actresses for our thriller film are not between that age gap. But, we decided that it was more important for the members of our group to be in this film, rather than characters of other ages, so we were able to have the final product which we

originally planned.

Q7. What narratives / sub-genres do you prefer in a film?

A common narrative which was suggested throughout the comments of this question was ‘friendship’. We have included this in our thriller as it fits with our plot nicely. Another suggestion was the sub-genre, comedy, which originally we were going to include,

however, it did not really fit with the plot of our film.

Q8. How many main actors/actresses do you like to typically see in a film?

The main response to this question was ‘2 to 6’. This fits with our original thriller plan as we have a total of 2 main characters and also a

third character.

Q9. What interests do you have outside of film?We including this question in our survey to have an understanding of the

interests of the people answering our question and to see if we were able to include an element of these hobbies into our film. However, we realised that this would not fit into the plot of our film and would be completely random.

Q10. What time of day to you typically prefer a film to be?The majority of the responses answered ‘evening’. When we come to edit our film we are going to dim the lighting to create the effect of it being filmed in

the evening. This also fits with the typical thriller convention of low key lighting.