Thriller Response Survey

On the very first question we had overwhelmingly positive feedback, except for one person who didn't see the name. Because of this we could make the title of the opening clearer by putting it at the beginning as well as the end. However as most feedback was positive and everyone accept one did see the name, change is probably not necessary.


Majority of our survey audience were 17 or younger, however there were two members of the audience that were 18 to 20 and one candidate who was 30-39. Because of the mostly positive feedback it could be said that the audience that our Thriller would mostly appeal to would be 17 or younger, however we would need more results to confirm this. It could also be said that our Thriller would not attract an audience younger than 17 because of it's genre. The thriller would be quite attractive to teenagers in general as dangerous aspects of the internet are something that many of them are aware of, and the main character is of this age, creating a homology between her and the audience.


All feedback on question three was positive, clearly showing that we do not need to change anything to make this point more obvious. So we have achieved our target of conveying the threat that the stalker poses without any dialogue.


The majority of our feedback on question four was negative, this leads us to consider cutting out sections in which we tried to explain the deception of the stalker or to add more clips in to make it more obvious. However the overwhelming positive feedback on most other questions, suggests that this information isn't important to the plot and the forfillment of the thriller genre.


We achieved overall positive feedback for question five, giving us a clear indication that the opening was not too long or led the audience to loose interest. This tells us that we do not need to change the length of the opening, but because of time restrictions we will have to anyway.


Two members of the audience thought that the shower scene was not necessary and did not advance the plot. However we have thought about this and have decided that the shower scene is important to for-fill the connotations of a thriller genre (running water).


We received very positive feedback for our choice of music in the opening, everyone except one member of the audience felt that it complimented the plot and added to the forfillment of the thriller genre. We will take into account the fact that one person said it could be better by editing the opening and fitting the music into the scenes better, possibly to create more tension at certain parts, making the plot develop with the music. We can also make sure that the blend between the two pieces of music we used is smooth and that the music ends with a crescendo.


Every member of the audience found our opening creepy, we felt this was a very important point because there is a fine line between something being scary and something being comical. One person particularly felt that the music was a major contributing factor to the tension of the thriller, which relating to the previous question shows that the music is very successful and probably does not need to be changed.


Most members of the audience thought that the girl was killed, if the movie were to be made in full then it could be used as a plot twist that the girl does not die. There were three people that were unsure whether she had died or not, which could be taken positively as the curiosity created by this makes the audience want to keep watching - it is important that the opening grabs the audience and make them want to carry on watching the film (we have for-filled this).