Research: Audience Survey

Overall my group and I are pleased with our second pilot survey. However we felt as though we still needed some more specific information from the audience, therefore, we decided to trial a couple more questions. The first question was:

What do you think ruins a thriller film the most?

• Gore scenes
• Sexual scenes
• Over use of violent language
• Homophobic and racial discrimination
• None

We have asked this question to determine what we should be wary of when making our opening titles. 50% of our audience answered gore, therefore this tells us we shouldn't include too much gore in our opening sequence. A further 20% answered that homophobic and racial discrimination ruined a thriller film. This means that we should try not to include much of this, in order to ensure we do not make the audience feel too uncomfortable in any way.

The second question we asked was:

Out of these popular film opening title sequences, which one do you prefer?

• James Bond
• Woman in Black
• Karthik calling Karthik
• Psycho

By asking this question we can see which title sequences are most popular with an audience, and from that, use the opening sequences to use as inspiration for us when creating our opening. Our results were tied with Woman in black, and Karthik calling Karthik, telling us aspects of horror and Bollywood seemed to be popular with our audience. This means that we might want to think about including this in our opening. 

The third question we asked related to the previous question:

Why have you chosen this film? 

• Music
• Font
• Editing
• Effects
• Camera angles/shots
• Mise-en-scene (costume, lighting, setting etc.)

We decided to include a part b to this question because it gave us more information as to why these opening title sequences were so popular. Therefore this would give us a better understanding of how we can make our opening sequence more appealing to our audience. From our previous pilot surveys we found out that music followed by mise-en-scene was important in the opening of a film. This means that I have learnt these aspects need to be chosen with great care. 

Overall, I am pleased with myself and my group for creating this survey and believe these questions should give us the information we are looking for in order to create a successful thriller film opening. Therefore, I am happy for us to now go ahead and make our final survey.