In order to chose a type of thriller and target audience I had to research existing opening sequences to thrillers. Other genres I took in to account were political, horror, action and gangster. I begun inquiring into my target group, I thought up a good questionare with a variety of questions on psychlogical thrillers and in return got a great response from a range of 10 different people. This questionnaire allowed me to look further into my target audience and find out different opinions and observations of a psychological thriller film.
Firstly I discovered young people ageing from 13-17 enjoyed watching psychlogical thrillers the most, they stated they often enjoyed watching thriller's and expected a small amount of violence and explicit language from a certificate 15. On the other hand 50% of the people I asked think 30+ are interested in psychological thrillers. I questioned two 30+ and one of them said they don't mind watching films under this genre but it's not his favourite. The majority of the people I asked said they expect psychlogical thrillers to be mind playing, atmpospheric and quite similar to horrors however they said they're less bloody and graphic. When I asked the 10 people about what certificate they thought psychlogical genres should be put under; 75% stated they thought the certificate was suitable for 15-18 due to the violence and heavy subjects that play with your mind. The other 25% said they dont see psychological thrillers as a threat to under 15's. People had a range of different answers when I asked them what their favourite psychological thriller is. I got a lot of people saying that enjoyed the film Saw as it's very mind playing and gets you off your seat. Another popular answer was The Ring as they were shocked of the content of the film and didn't expect it. In my quiz I involved multi-choice questions as well which, allowed people to have an option of answers to choose from.I asked, how do you usually watch films? 1.) through the internet? 2.) DVD? 3.) Cinema? I got a variety of answers and discovered most of the people aging 15-17 enjoyed going to the cinema (orange wednesday) to watch films because its a lot better quality and the atmosphere is so much better than sitting in your living room watching in on the TV. However 30+ stated they prefer watching films on DVD or via internet as it's a lot more accessible and they didn't like the environment of being in the cinema as they feel a lot more comfortable sitting at home. A lot of the younger teens wern't able to list any production companies that produce psychological thrillers, furthermore two of the people who were aged 20 were able to list me two companies one being Thriller Entertainment and Urbanchillers films. I was suprised when I to see 3 out of the 10 people that I questioned had bought a soundtrack to a psychological thriller all 17 - 25 because it's not a popular style of music to buy. They consider the music from the soundtrack being catchy and exciting to listen to due to the tension created in the music. My final question asked was, what is the difference between a thriller and a horror. I was suuprised when I found out half of the people 15 - 17 didn't know the difference between a thriller and a horror whereas 20+ knew the difference.
Robyn Bostock
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