Audience Research Questionaire

1. When watching a thriller where do you prefer the location to be? :
a) A place you recognize (The city, the country etc) - 2
b) Somewhere exotic (Rainforest, desert etc) - 2
c) Somewhere unknown to you (Different planet etc) - 5

2. What do you prefer the soundtrack to be? :
a) Instrumental - 8
b) Soundtrack you recognize -1
c) None
d) Other: - written soundtrack

3. What sub-genre do you prefer a thriller to be? :
a) Action - 2
b) Crime - 1
c) Psychological - 6
d) Drama
e) Spy - 1
f) Other

4. What aspect of a thriller do you think is most important? :
a) Characters - 3
b) Plot - 6
c) Costumes
d) Location - 1
e) Other

5. How should the killer in the movie be presented? :
a) Obvious (You know it's the killer when the movie opens) - 2
b) A mystery (You are unsure of the killer until the ending) - 7

6. What time period do you prefer a thriller to be set in? :
a) Future
b) Past - 1
c) Present - 1
d) Doesn't matter - as long as all the thriller aspects are within the film - 7



The audience who answered my questionaire preferred the location to be somewhere unknown to them, like a different planet or somewhere fictional. Audiences preferred the soundtrack to be instrumental, instead of a soundtrack they recognize. Audiences preferred the genre to be psychological and that the plot is the most important aspect of a thriller. Audiences preferred the killer in a thriller to remain a mystery until the end of the movie. Audiences said that it didn't matter what time period the thriller was set in as long as all the thriller aspects were within the film.
The thriller questionaire will help with my thriller because it has given me an idea on what audiences prefer in a thriller. I won't consider all of the answers when going to plan my thriller because I have my own ideas, but I will take on board what audiences like especially the music because before I didn't know what sort of music to use but from this questionaire I have an idea of what audiences will like.