Bollywood Thriller Survey

My group and I decided to make a small survey to gain an idea on whether or not there was an audience for a Bollywood thriller film, and what that target audience would expect and like to see in one. The survey we created received 50 responses which means they should be fairly accurate. 

Our first question was 'Would you be interested in watching a Bollywood style thriller?'. We felt this was a very important question because if the response had been no we would have had to change all our ideas and concepts. Luckily 61% of the responses said yes which makes us a lot more confident with our idea because we know there's an audience out there for it. 

The second question we asked was 'Have you seen any Bollywood inspired films? (b) If yes, please name the film'. We asked this to see how popular Bollywood films are, and discovered that 88% of the responses had seen a Bollywood inspired film and the most popular named example was, Slumdog Millionaire. This means that we will be able to go away and watch this film to analyse which Bollywood conventions are used within the film to make it so popular with the audience.

'Do you think that typical Bollywood aspects such as music help make a film authentic?' was our next question.71% said yes which presents my group with the fact that we will need to include several Bollywood aspects into the film in order to make it appear authentic.

Our next question was 'What would you expect to see in a Bollywood thriller?'. We asked this question to find out which themes were popular within a Bollywood thriller and which were not to give us an idea of which themes we may want to include in our final product. Our most popular answer was religion, therefore, we should make sure we look into this when deciding on mise-en-scene and props. Our second most popular answer was romance. Our original idea included the theme of romance but we discarded it due to the fact we believed it was to cliche. Hence, our survey shows that we were correct because 30% of our responses said that was what they would expect to see in a Bollywood thriller. This reinforces our reasoning for going against this stereotype and making our idea more original.

Our final question was 'What key themes would you enjoy to see in a Bollywood thriller?'. The idea we have thought of already consists of obsession being the key theme, and luckily our survey has shown us that this is a key theme our audience would enjoy seeing within a film. Obsession got 68% of the responses therefore, we are definitely content with choosing this to be our main theme. 

What have I learnt?

From this survey I have learnt what our target audience would like to see in a Bollywood thriller, and what our key theme should be within our final product. This is great help because it means we will be able to use this information to create a final product which our target audience will enjoy.