Section 4 - audience research - and research into BBFC film classification system

How old are you ………

Gender - Male Female (please circle)

24 male 26 female

Do you watch Films? If so on average how often do you watch films a week? (Please circle)
0 1-4 5-10 10+

16- 0 films 24- 1-4 films 9- 5-10 films 1- 10+ films

What is your favourite film and why?
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What is your idea of a thriller film?
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Which is your favourite thriller?
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What is your preferred type of thriller? (Please circle)

Action Conspiracy Crime Disaster

Drama Political


39- action 3- crime 5- disaster 3- drama 0- conspiricy 0- crime


Do you prefer a male or female hero? (Please Circle)

Male Female

42- male 8- female

Your preferred characteristics of the protagonist (Hero)?
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Do you prefer a single hero or many? (please Circle)

Single many

37- single 13- many



Do you prefer a male of female villain?

Male Female

42- male 8- female


Your preferred characteristics of the Antagonist (Villain)?
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Do you prefer a linear storyline (story follows itself) or a non-Linear storyline (Story flicks
through time)?
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Out of these plots which is your favourite? (Please Circle)

1. Political women running through the woods from the killer as she has something concerning the government the killer wants

2. Average business man working in his office when he gets a phone call from a man who has his son hostage and says his son has 48 hours to live.

3. Old house occupied by a strange. The man was a doctor who got fired for an operation that went wrong and ended in the patient dying. he get people to come inside so the man can ‘operate on them.’

4. A man killed someone with witnesses watching it now he stalks the witnesses trying to kill them off before the police catch on to him.


21- 1 16- 2 3- 3 10- 4


What is your ideal death?
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Should the killer be known or unknown? (Please circle)

Known Unknown

6- known 44- unknown


Should the opening scene consist of the graphics (Credits)? (Please Circle)

Yes No


46- yes 4- no


What colour scheme should be used in the credits?
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What soundtrack would you like to hear? (please Circle)

Orchestral Recognisable song up coming artist


30- orchestral 14- recognisable 6- upcoming artist



Which film title do you prefer? (Please Circle)

Piece of Paper above the law 48 hour Phone call Dead end

0- piece of paper 17- above the law 10- 48 houre phone call 23- dead end


Any other opinions?
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Thank you



From the results our group collated, we could recognise that people like different things, but the questionare was quite bias, as we only asked our targeted audiece of 15- 20.