Analysis of Thriller movie surveys

11%

67%

22%

Participant Ages

13 to 15

16 to 18

19 to 21

We made sure that in our survey we would have a fair representative of the ages of most likely viewers. We made sure we used mostly people aged ’16-18’ as they are our main target audience.

35%

65%

Gender

MaleFemale

We tried to make sure that the questionnaire had a fair representative, by including both male and female participants.

20%

15%

10%

5%10%

10%

15%

5%

10%

Thriller Movie Preferences

PsychologicalCrimeMysteryActionDisaster DramaHorrorPoliticalSupernatural

From this chart we have discovered that majority of our participants in the survey enjoyed psychological thrillers the most, these results worked out well for us as we initially planned to do a

psychological thriller.

20%

50%

15%

15%

Most enjoyable thing about thrillers:

They Are InterestingThe SuspenseIts ExcitingThey Make You Think

From these results we have gathered that half of our participant’s favourite thing about thriller films is the suspense of it. In our thriller opening we are hopefully including a range of things that would

built suspense, the idea of our thriller is quite mysterious and would always leave the viewer questioning and wondering what’s going to happen next.

15%

25%

10%5%5%

5%

15%

15%

5%

Favourite thriller movies

Room 1408

The Grudge

Se7en

Arlington Road

Taxi Driver

The Dark Night

Panic Room

Snakes on a Plane

Hannibal

We have discovered from this chart that our survey participants enjoy quite a range of thriller movies. The most popular is ‘The grudge’.

5%

25%

45%

25%

Prefered Characteristics of Thriller Victims

ShynessParanoidFairly Strong-MindedWeak Minded

To gather inspiration for the victim characters personality, we asked about what the audience preferred.

45%

55%

Prefered Gender of Victim

MaleFemale

We gathered this information to help us decide what gender we should make our victim, after gathering these results we decided we should have a female victim

60%

10%

25%

5%

Most Intimidating Features of a Thriller Vil-lian

Deep, Low VoiceQuiet/Whispery VoiceBooming VoiceScreechy High Voice

We wanted to find this out so that we could have inspiration on how to make our villain most intimidating.

65%

35%

Prefered gender of villian

malefemale

To be able to help create the most intimidating we gathered this information to find that most people would like a male villain. However, we found some complications in having this to fit our plot.

70%

30%

Prefered pace of a thriller

slow, tension buildingfast and exiting

From this we decided to set the pace of our Thriller. We found it very helpful when making our Thriller.