Extra questions for our survey

Overall, me and my group have discussed the questions we have included in the survey and we are all content with the information it gave us. However, we thought we would add two more questions so that we could see what we should not include in the opening of our thrillers. The new questions we asked were:

What do you think ruins a thriller film?

• Gore
• Sexual scenes
• Violent language
• Homeophobic and racial attendancies
• None

From this question, 50% of the audience said they think gore ruins a thriller film. This helped us ensure we do not include gore, or if we do, we should not include to much of it. 10% of the audience said that they think sexual scenes ruin the a thriller film. From this, we have found out that most people do not mind the amount of sexual scenes which are in thriller films. However, because 10% said they think it ruins a thriller film we will try and limit the scenes if we decide to include it. 20% said that they think homophobic and racial attendiances which tells us that if we do include this content we should try and limit it to an extent as we do not want to make the audience feel uncomortable.

The second question we added was - (a) Out of these popular opening film title sequences, which one do you prefer?

• James Bond
• Women In Black
• Pyscho

From asking this to the audience there was a draw between The Women In Black and a popular Bollywood thriller called Kathik Calling Karthik. This tells me that a thriller that contains some aspects of horror and a bollywood thriller are quite popular. Which then helps us out as we can see what the audience prefers and what we should try and include. James Bond closesly follows these two. By doing this question we can see which title sequences are the most successful.
(b) Why is this? Is it the..

• Music
• Font
• Editing
• Effects
• Camera angle/shots
• Mise-en-scene (this is the costume, lighting, setting etc)

We decided to include a part b as we wanted to know why. We purposely listed things which could be why like the openings. From our previous pilot surveys we found out that Music was the most popular. However, Mise-en-scene followed up very closesy at 30%. This tells us as a group that we need to make sure the mise-en-scene and music is high quality as it is what the audience will expect.
As a group I think we have worked well in thinking and making up these extra questions for this survey. It was important for us to try these questions out before we added them to our finay survey as we didn't want to be given the wrong infiormation. I am content with our survey and as a group we are ready to make our final one.