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asked 17 people to complete my survey, this will show a good range of results and hardly have any biased opinions. I will be able to determine an equal view of what people believe and it won't have an effect on gender, this will give me a good understanding over all about what people think.

For this question I asked about how people would prefer to watch films. I got an across the board kind of response so it shows however i release my thriller should get around the same amount of people viewing it on every format. This is a good thing because if I could release my thriller across another format at a later date it would increase its audience by about the same as i would already have. On the other hand, it could be bad thing because I only have one choice on how i release it and if that choice had no people viewing it my thriller wouldn't do very well. It's lucky that i have an even spread and it will mean i won't lose many viewers from not being able to release it on any other format. Many people would watch thrillers on a range of formats so hopefully it would turn more people to watching films online. There is a slight decrease on TV this could be because when thrillers are released on TV the audience have already seen them and might not want to watch them again.

Comedy seems to be the genre that people who watch online movies like to watch. This could be because people who are more capable on the computer and who download things a lot to watch comedies. If they were online watching movies they might not be too concerned about the image quality or the input into the film; they might just want to sit and watch the jokes come at them. Online is ideal for this because bad quality and sound don't necessarily affect the viewing of a comedy. On the other hand, with a thriller you would want to get the best quality sound and image so when online waiting for films to buffer and watching in standard definition might not be the best idea because you will lose some of the quality. Also for building suspense during a thriller waiting for it to buffer would not be a good way to watch the climax of the movie. This is one of the downsides and limitations we have. Hopefully we will be able to upload our finished pieces in HD 720 quality to get the best possible viewing experience.

People who are more interested in watching thrillers would want to have the best viewing quality and would pay either for the DVD/blu-ray This would be ideal for us to be able to release it onto blu-ray that way the viewing experience would be perfect.

For this question I wanted to see what people really liked about a thriller and what gets them most hooked. I was a little surprised by the result, I thought it would be more along the lines of the protagonist or antagonist because of their acting or the way the events that happen between the two to get the audience on the edge of their seat. It turns out it

was the location which works well for us because in our thriller we have planned to shoot in a dark woods with low light. Hopefully our audience will find this appealing and like our setting.

This question was about the codes and conventions in a film. I wanted to find out what people picked on and how many people picked up on these things. This is because it is important to know what to include in your film. If you included no codes or signs in a movie people would be bored and not have to work little parts out. I personally like looking for these and thinking about a film so to have these is really interesting and boosts a films rating for me. In our thriller it would be a good idea to include as most people pick up on them and seem to know what we are talking about.

In a thriller there are different parts to it that people may enjoy the most and these would have a big influence on whether they watch it or not. I wanted to know what may be good to play on and adapt to make into a thriller that people would most want to watch. Psychological horror was the most popular, this includes imagery that may not be scary or thrilling on a visual sense but with sounds and camera tricks that make the audience think ‘what was that?’ Also it includes possible true elements that will stay with the audience and make them think even after the film has finished. In our thriller this is what we want to achieve along with mystery and suspense so it’s good that the questionnaire proved my point.

This question was to ask when people would most likely watch a thriller and how comfortable they were with watching it at certain times or with certain people. People feel differently about watching potentially scary films at night alone than they would in the middle of the day with a group of friends or family. Most people answered that they would watch it at home with friends/family. This means our thriller should appeal to an audience who like to watch in groups and at home. This ties in with being able to download it as well because if they can get it at home they are more likely to watch it in large groups expanding our audience.

This is a key question to any film. You see all these new thrillers being released having a happy ending and the characters living ‘happily ever after’ when this would not be the case usually. This is why i wanted to find out what people preferred to watch and it turns out my theory was correct and people prefer to see a negative ending to a film. With a negative ending you don’t see the cliché ending and the cheesy ending or lines that these cheap low budget films create. With a happy ending its like a quick way to end the movie, the story could be good and action packed but then they all lived happily ever after. On the other hand, a good action packed and challenging film with a devastating ending is much more entertaining.

Lastly, for this question I wanted to know how popular thrillers were now and if people still made the effort to watch them. There was a variety of results but the majority only watch between 1 and 4 thrillers a month. This means to get people to watch our thriller we have to make sure its really good and get audience hooked. To do this we would want to make sure we really listened to our audience research and took on board their comments.