Audience Research Video

This is our audience research video. We went around school and found people from our target audience and asked them to answer a few questions on what they preferred in a thriller film.

The questions were:

1. Do you watch thriller films?
2. What is your favourite narrative in a thriller film?
3. What is your biggest fear?
4. What is the scariest age for a villain to be in a thriller film?
5. What gender do you find scariest in a thriller film?
6. What's the scariest location for a thriller film to take place?

For question number one the most common answer we got was yes, which was encouraging as these were our target audience so obviously we want them to have interest in and watch thriller films.

There were two common narratives that were seen to be the most favourable. One was murder and the other was kidnapping, this helped show us what narrative we should include to interest and thrill our target audience. This has also helped demonstrate to us that the original idea we have (involving both capture and murder) will fit in with the needs of our audience. Other's mentioned were mystery and suspense, I feel we will also try and include this in our narrative, for example by covering one of the murderers identity, as it will keep our audience on the edge of their seat and make them want to continue to watch. All of these narratives are also common conventions of a thriller film so will fit in nicely. 

There were many different answers to what was our audiences biggest fears but I did pick up on the theme of darkness, as this was mentioned a couple of times. I feel it would be a good idea to include darkness in our film as it will create more mystery as the audience won't exactly know what is going on and will also make it eerie. Other fears we may think to include is kidnapping and possibly alleys as both of these will create a tense atmosphere and will thrill our target audience.

The most common age for a villain to be was 50/60, or someone who is old. I found this common because as our audience are younger they would be more fearful of the older generation as they are the least like them. We will try and use someone this age in our thriller film, if not slightly younger as they will be more scary and mysterious than someone our age.

Male was shown to be the scariest gender, we will use this in our thriller film as both of the murders are going to be male and the victims will both be female. This is also a common convention to have males as murders as they are stereotypically seen to be the stronger out of the two genders.

A lot like fear the main theme I picked up from location was darkness. This was mentioned in a few different answers, I think this has helped show us what our location should be like to create the most tense and eerie atmosphere. A few other answers I would like to incorporate are somewhere abandoned  a forest and possibly and alley as I feel these will all create a tense atmosphere and will also appeal to our audience.