Thriller Questionnaire

Our thriller questionnaire overall got us back some good primary research. The questions we asked were more related to our idea and the feedback was good although some of the questions were hard to understand if you didn't know alot about thrillers which caused us to sometimes influence the answers that were given or otherwise they were left blank. When we asked our audience wether they preferred 18 or 15 rated films the majority of them said 18 because the content is not limited, they also said that they would not expect to see anything explicit in the first two minutes even in an 18, this tells us that we should just build up the suspense and atmosphere in the opening. Further more we also found out that our audience would rather the setting be somewhere unsuspecting like a normal day-to-day scene. Rather than a woods or a usual aery atmosphere because it has been done to many times and it is typically associated with thrillers. For the protagonists and antagonist we found out that they would prefer the protagonist to be normal looking and attractive, and the antagonist to look normal too, this creates the effect that the antagonist could be anyone.
We also found out from our research that the titles should be black or red this ties in the the thriller feel. We associate black with darkness, and red with danger or anger. We also asked what their favorite thriller films were, although some people were unsure of what films classified as a thriller this enabled us to go away and watch these films to get ideas of story lines. We also found out that are audience like to be in suspense for the first part of the film, to keep them interested and thinking.
I think we gained some good information from our questionnaires although some of the information was vague, I think we could have done a group discussion to improve this that way we could have gone into more detail.