Analysing the survey results

So far we've got 39 responses to our survey. This is just an analysis of the results we have so far, overall I think we are aiming to get atleast 80-100 responses, so that we can judge it fairly and see what is best for our audience. Most of our results so far are very helpful, however there are a few that we won't include due to them being inappropriate.

The first question is 'What is your gender?'
I think this is a good question to ask as we can see the different opinions of male and female and from that we can decide what to include. From this question, we found out that 38% of the people that filled out this survey were male and 64% were female. From this we know that most of the people viewing our work are female, however we only have 39 responses at the moment, so that may change.

The second question is 'How old are you?'
Our categories for this question are very varied which perhaps may make it unreliable but from this question, we could see that the most popular age group were 16-30 and the least popular age group are the under 16's. This tells us that because the majority of our audience are 16+. The results are unexpected because all different age groups are showing interest in our work and sharing their opinion.

The third question is 'What do you enjoy most about thrillers?'
This question will help us alot because it helps us understand what people like to see in thrillers and what most people would like us to include. The answers varied from gore, blood and violence, to the twists at the the end and the psycological plot twists. However the answer 'suspense' came up alot, so we will take that into consideration when making our thriller opening title sequence. It was very interesting to know peoples opinions and asking this question has really helped.

The fourth question is 'What is your favourite type of sub-genre of thriller?'This is an important question to ask when doing a survey on thrillers as the genre 'thriller' can be so wide ranged. There are many sub-genres in the thriller genre and each of them are considerably different. The answers from this question, told us that psycological thrillers and crime thrillers are preferred out of the people that view our work. I think it would be good to take this into consideration and add aspects of psycological thrillers and crime thrillers into our opening title sequence. The least popular was an erotic thriller, so I don't think we should make that as it wouldn't be very successful and would satisfy the minority. I think we could have improved this question by including a text box, so the person filling out the survey could specify what other sub-genre is their favourite.

The fifth question is 'Based on your answer for the previous question, what is it about that sub-genre that you like so much?' 
This question is good as it allows us to see what features of that sub-genre they like, and from that we can include it in our opening title sequence. A you can see some answers are inappropriate and won't taken into consideration. These are just a few answers that people have written. An interesting answer we received was 'It makes you think about things and it's not just blood and gore.' Answers like this are good because it helps our group understand that we should have a good storyline/plot to our film rather than focusing on making it violent. Alot of people also answer 'mystery.' I think we should include something really interesting in our opening title sequence to cause the reader curiosity.

The last question is 'Finally, what do you expect from the opening of a thriller?'
This is one of the most important questions in the survey, in my opinion, because it asks the person filling out the survey, upfront what they would expect from an opening of a thriller, which helps us massively, as it tells us what our audience expects to see. Some answers from this contrasted each other, some people answered that they would like to know instantly what's going on, whereas other people answered that they would like to be confused at the beginning, as it's then a surprise when you realise later on in the film. An answer that came up quite a bit was 'dark eerie music.' This has helped me and my group, so far understand that the majority of people like the music to be chilling, and some sort of confusion or plot we don't know about at the beginning as it makes the viewer curious and want to watch on.

In summary, although the survey is ongoing, so the most popular answers could change, it has helped our group out alot on what to include, what people do and don't like and what makes a successful thriller. It also gave us an insight into the differences between male and females' opinions.