The results show that the majority of people who are more likely to take the time to fill out a questionnaire are of the female gender.

The responses we received were mostly of the age range of 15-17. This reflects on the type of target audience we aim to reach out to. However a few results were of an older age, but their other answers fit in with the younger age category; this suggests that opinions of different age groups blur together in the areas of thriller films.

The answers to this question show that the sub-genre our audience likes most is crime, closely followed by psychological.

These results will really help influence us when we make our thriller opening, knowing that 91% of our audience said non-diegetic sound helps build tension is crucial for us to know.

The majority of people enjoy thrillers based off urban myths/legends; this shows the different tastes people have and gives an insight to how our audience think.

When it came to a thriller setting, the location of both a house and a hospital were very high up. This will help influence our final outcome as we now know how to best please our target audience. The results suggest that people prefer the location to be a familiar place, so they can relate to the characters situation, this is important as it feeds and helps create a more tense and distressing atmosphere.

The bar graph shows the preponderance of our audience prefers to see the casting to be a male lead. This suggests people like to see the stereotypical gender roles of men being the more dominant and action involved.

The results from this question show that our audience enjoy a variety of different type of thriller films as many answers had I different director.

The highest answer for the question on symbolism was setting. This shows us how our audiences view films, the effect it has on them and the aspects of a scene they pick out and focus/concentrate on.

Most people out of our audience have shown they prefer no dialogue in the opening scene – this information is useful as it will help us structure our final piece.