Questionnaire responses.

Answers to Questionnaire.

1.   What is your age?

·       10 between the ages of 15-20.

·       10 between the ages of 20-25

·       10 between the ages of 25-30

·       10 of the ages 30 onwards.

2.   What is your gender?

·       20 were female.

·       20 were male.

3.   What is your favourite type of Thriller?

·       45% said horror.

·       10% said action.

·       15% said crime.

·       20% said psychological.

·       5% said conspiracy.

·       5% said disaster.

·       0% said supernatural.

4.   What is your favourite ending to a Thriller?

·       15% said cliff hanger.

·       0% said happy ending.

·       55% said a twist.

·       10% said main character dies.

·       20% said it was all a dream.

5.   What conventions do you expect a typical Thriller to include?

·       100% said eerie dark scenes.

·       100% said eerie music.

·       75% said scary plots.

·       0% said car chases.

·       98% said loud diegetic sounds

·       60% said jumpy scenes.

·       80% said murders.

·       30% said fast paced action.

·       55% said gore.

6.   Which settings do you think works best in a Thriller?

·       0% said city.

·       15% said country side.

·       35% said suburbs.

·       0% said warehouses.

·       20% said woods.

·       30% said deserted houses

7.   What actress/actors do you prefer?

·       65% preferred known actors/actresses.

·       35% preferred unknown actors/actresses.

8.   What locations do you expect a thriller to take place?

·       30% said woods/forests.

·       40% said abandoned house.

·       30% said cellar.

·       0% said cemetery.

These are clichés because numerous Thrillers use the same location.                                 Would you think these to be better?

·       40% said suburbs.

·       0% said school.

·       0% said fields.

·       0% said beach.

9.   What are your expectations of a hero?

·       80% said handsome.

·       100% said masculine.

·       30% said young adult.

·       75% said good personality.

10.               What music do you expect?

·       90% said slow paced.

·       60% said fast paced.

·       30% said heavy.

·       10% soft.

·       100% said jumpy.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

As you can see Maslow's hierarchy of needs is relevant to advertisers and institutions. The upper levels are about self esteem and gaining respect from others. This can be linked to the idea that consuming particular media texts fulfils self-esteem how buying certain products does.
For example, Maslow is suggesting that if you buy a new pair of shoes of the right brand shown to you in the media. For instance, Dr Marten’s, then you will feel better about yourself because you have the respect of other people, as you are wearing known fashionable shoes.
In terms of our thriller, we want to create a thriller that fulfils our sense of pride and self-esteem and be respected by our audience as a convincing opening to a thriller and to have their respect where they use (word of mouth) to promote our thriller.



Demographics for Target Audience

We have chosen this demographic as our target audience as we want to create a thriller which is entertaining but educational at the same time. We aim to raise awareness surrounding Trafficking as it is a crime that is rising significantly, with teenage females being the most frequent victims, hence the target audience.

Questionnaire

1.    How old are you?(circle)

·         15-20

·         21-25

·         26-30

·         31+

2.    What is your favourite type of Thriller?(circle)

·         Action

·         Horror

·         Crime

·         Drama

·         Psychological

·         Conspiracy

·         Disaster

·         Supernatural

3.     What is your favourite ending of a Thriller?(circle)

·         Cliff hanger

·         Happy Ending

·         A twist

·         The main character dies

·         It was all a dream

4.     What conventions do you expect from a typical thriller movie to include?(circle)

·         Eerie dark scenes

·         Eerie music

·         Scary plots

·         Car chases

·         Loud jumpy diegetic sounds

·         Jumpy scenes

·         Murders

·         Fast paced action

·         Gore            

5.     Which settings do you think works best in a Thriller?(circle)

·         A city

·         The countryside

·         Suburbs

·         Warehouses

·         Woods

·         Deserted houses

       

6.     What actress/actors do you prefer?(circle)

·         Unknown

·         Known Film star.

7.     What locations do you expect a Thriller to take place?(circle)

·         Woods/Forest

·         Abandoned house

·         Cellar

·         Cemetery

8.     What are your expectations of the hero? (if there is one)(circle)

·         Handsome

·         Masculine

·         Young adult

·         Good personality

9.     What music do you expect?

·         Slow paced

·         Fast paced

·         Heavy

·         Soft

·         Jumpy

Institution most suitable for the distribution of our Thriller

Universal have a long running history of distribution of Thrillers, they have supplied audiences with a large number of successful thrillers over the years and here are just some of those.

We feel that Universal are the most suitable institution for us based on the subject we are basing our Thriller on. Because of their successful distribution and established trademark they would be ideal for promoting and supplying our Thriller to a wide audience.

As our Thriller is a specialist film dealing with the heavy subject of female exploitation and sex trafficking, we will need a large institution with global reach to raise the profile of our thriller. Most people go to the cinema to be entertained, our thriller is not an entertaining thriller, it is more educational as it lifts the lid on female exploitation and does little to mask the reality of sex trafficking. Our main objective was to make audiences more aware of this massively profitable business that criminals all over the world are involved in. Universal is one of the most dominant institutions and is able to target all corners of the world - making it most capable of promoting our thriller worldwide to a mass audience, allowing us to achieve our main objective.