Research - Questionnaries And Results - Ms Begum

Questionnaire's

 

What Is The Importance Of Primary Research?
Primary research is very important and is more important than secondary research because it is more reliable and is your own research meaning that it is 100% true. Primary research will let you feel more in control of the results and you decide how, when and where your research is administered. This helped me target a specific audience because all questions where related to the conventions, themes and other microelements in thrillers.

 

Who Did I Ask And Why?
I asked people between the ages of 15 years old to 25 years old because my thriller uses characters in their age group, I believe the age reflects from the characters as they relate to their age groups a lot more than characters who I much older or much younger than the target audience. I asked both genders because thrillers can appeal to both male and female, so fair answers will be received from both.

Advantages/Disadvantages.
An advantage for this questionnaire is that it gave me an idea of what would appeal to the target audience the most. So, the making of the thriller idea was an easier/quicker purpose. A disadvantage was the effort of collecting important questions and fitting it into a small and easy questionnaire for the target audience to fill out.

 

Example Of My Questionnaire?

 

Conclusion: How Has This Research Been Beneficial?
This research has been beneficial because it has helped me build my ideas and features that will best suit my target audience and I believe my final idea will really attract my target audience. Also, It helped me realise that certain themes aren't as popular to the public as I may have thought. Personally, it was very beneficial as it gave me an idea of what would appeal to an audience the most.

My Results.

This graph shows me that the majority of people I asked like watching thrillers. This helped me because it showed me that the people I questioned about this topic, will give an honest opinion and will show some sort of experience in the thriller world.





This graph shows me that the sub-genre "psychological thriller" is popular in this generation. This helped me because this directed me to a group of ideas for this sub-genre and showed that my target audience will like to watch this thriller.

 

This graph shows me that the people I asked in this questionnaire, the majority are interested in psychological thrillers on a whole. This has helped me massively because it has led me to an idea of psychological confusion for the audience to feel with my narrative.

 

 

This graph shows me that the audience have a mutual opinion to whether a thriller is better with a supernatural narrative or a realistic narrative. This didn't help me as much as it should have but it did show me that whatever I decide, the audience will like it just as much.

 

 

 

This graph shows me that the age group the target audience will be most interested in for the actors is under 10's. This has helped me because it showed me that the category of under 10's fort he main characters of the thriller will maybe scare the audience more.

 

 

 

This graph shows me that the audience would like the antagonist to have a hidden identity. This has helped me because it showed me that my antagonist would be scarier hidden.

 

 

 

 

This graph shows me that the storyline should be a mystery to the audience in the opening as the audience likes to work things out by the end. This has helped me because it helps my idea of psychological confusion for the audience.

 

 

 

This graph shows that people wouldn't like to see a protagonist in the opening of a thriller. This has helped me because it shows my narrative has a lot of trouble without the 'hero'.

 

 

 

This graph shows that a hospital would be most scariest for a setting in a thriller. This helped me because it related to my idea of a mentally ill antagonist in my thriller.

 

 

This graph shows that the audience think the victim is best suited as a female. This helped me because I needed to decide who would look weak out of the two genders for a victim.

 

This graph shows me that the people I questioned believe that an antagonist will be better as a male. This helps because it shows me the antagonist will be more scarier as a male.

 

 

This graph shows that the more eerie music in the scene, the more scary it is. This helped me because I was stuck to whether I should use a lot of music or not but now I know.

 

 

 

 This graph shows that the title 'alone' would attract this target audience the most. This helped me with a variety of one worded titles for my idea so I can attract an audience.

 

 

This graph shows that there was a 50/50 count of whether moving objects would be scary or not. As this would only be in a supernatural thriller, I will no longer need this in my thriller.