Questionnaire Feedback

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I conducted a questionnaire to my target audience to see what they enjoyed when watching a horror/thriller genre. Even though we have changed our genre to Psychological Thriller some of the feedback given are still relevant and will still help us when shooting are film trailers.

I asked the audience when watching a thriller, would  they prefer to discover the whole story line. The majority of the people said no. This shows us that audiences enjoy a bit of mystery and a sense of surprise when watching a trailer. They prefer for there to be something to look forward to when watching going to watch a movie.

This is good information for us to have because now as a group we can deiced on how much we care willing to  reveal about our narrative.

I asked, 'what scares you the most about a horror/thriller film' and the most responses we got was from the music. Apparently what scares audiences the most is the music followed by the mise - en - scene. The music is something that we will take on board because we want for tension to build however, we still want the narrative to be heard. So we could lower the music to a slow piano have a non digectic soundtrack and it could peak as the trailer progresses.

However, the mise - en - scene I wouldn't say matters as much now that we are doing a psychological thriller. We are going to use local setting for example: Stratford Westfield, Park, Schools ext .,

Most of the feedback given was from a female respondents. Even though Psychological Thrillers are watched by both genders. However, basing this on our questionnaire we are going to have a male protagonist which will appeal to the female gaze and would want the female viewers to watch more.



'My Favorite Film is SAW' 

This is what most respondents said when asked what is your favourite horror/thriller movie. I think this is because of the narrative used in SAW it isn't just about a killer is has a storyline to why he is the way he is. And I think audiences enjoy that, So we will be taking some aspects from the SAW trailer (cinematography etc ..) and put that in to out trailer.