Results from the Questionnaire collected by Morris

 1. What is your favourite movie genre?
·         Thriller-1 people
·         B. Horror-4 people
·         C. Drama-0 people
·         D. Comedy-2 people
·         E. Action-9 people

2. What do you see in the opening of a movie that you enjoy? Two lines max

• Interesting opening credits
• Nice establishing shots
• Something that introduces the story
• Nothing should be too simple
• Cool opening effects
• Story should be not too simple
• Opening music should be good
• Music should be suspenseful
• It shouldn’t be too inactive
• Something should happen
• There should be lots of confusion
• It should be really smooth
• The plot should be clever
• The music should have something to do with the rest of the film
• There should be something impressive right from the start
• It should grab your attention

3.  If you had to choose a Thriller sub-genre what would it be?

• Crime-Thriller-13 people
• Psychological Thriller-3 people

4. If you had to choose, what would be your favourite Thriller movie?

·         Saw films- 7 people

·         Donnie darko

·         Inception

·         Kill bill

·         Van helsing

·         The matrix

·         BBC’s production of the 39 steps

·         The great escape

·         The godfather

·         Memento

5. What do you like about that movie? I.e. the tension it creates. Two lines max

• the plot
• the music
• the action
• the horror
• the use of plot
• the storyline
• the story
• the story
• the way it all fit together
• how clever it was
• the action
• the action
• how clever the story and plot was
• how scary the villain was
• how terrifying the villain was
• how strange it was

6. What setting do you think is best for a high tension thriller? One line max

• in a dark warehouse
• in a small village
• inside a characters head
• it should turn out to all be a dream
• in a creepy alley
• spread out across the country
• in a big city
• it should move from place to place
• a abandoned theme park
• graveyard
• wide open space like a field
• abandoned school
• forest
• abandoned factory
• old museum
• spooky wood

7. What in the opening to a Thriller would keep you asking questions? Two lines max

• I’m not sure-6 people
• Not much of the plot should be given away-4 people
• You should be confused by it-4 people
• A complex plot-2 people

8. Give your age?

• 11-3 people
• 12-1 people
• 13-1 people
• 14-1 people
• 15-5 people
• 16-3 people
• 17-2 people

9. Your status (working class/middle class/upper class)?

• Working-5 people
• Middle-11 people
• Upper-0

10. Do you like intelligent well thought out films?

·         Yes-12 people

·         No-4 people

11. Do you like foreign films?

·         Yes-4 people

·         No-12 people

12. What is your favourite type of music?

·         Rock-4 people

·         Pop-4 people

·         Rap-6 people

·         Classic-2 people

·         Country-0

13. What was the last film you watched?

·         Don’t remember-6 people

·         Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2- 3 people

·         The smurf movie

·         Cars 2

·         The hangover part 2

·         The green hornet

·         The inbetweeners movie

·         Keeping mum

·         Kill bill

14. What was the last thriller film you watched?

·         Don’t remember- 11 people

·         The matrix

·         The godfather

·         Saw 4

·         V for vendetta

·         Donnie Darko

15. What did you like about it? Two lines max

·         The characters

·         The storyline

·         The scares

·         The storyline

·         The storyline

16. What did you not like about it? Two lines max

·         How complicated it was

·         The characters weren’t likeable

·         The complicated story

·         nothing

·         nothing