Audience Research

We used survey monkey to ask a range of people different question about a crime thriller genre. We tried to ask people of different ages to get the best results. Our results show that five out of six people like a hook at the end of an opening therefore we will be sure to put that in our opening. It makes people want to find out what will happen and draws many questions. We asked people what their favourite aspect of a thriller genre was and half of the people said a plot whilst the other half said the characters. In our opening we will make the characters intriguing and the plot mysterious. The movies Se7en and Now You See Me were the most popular crime thriller movies they have watched so for our opening we will use elements from their opening. We wanted to know what makes people watch crime thriller movies and the highest percentage was being introduced to new characters and watching them develop. Therefore when we create our opening we will be sure to use interesting stock characters to keep the audience entertained. Four people said romance isn't suitable in a crime thriller movie so we will keep the main focus on the crime and the investigation. 83.33% of people said they liked mysterious characters and therefore we will make the main character mysterious and suspicious. We will do this by eerie lighting and dark clothing. 100% of people said they want to feel intrigued when watching a crime thriller movie so our opening will be very intriguing and captivating. Revenge and murderers are the most scary and entertaining themes which will be included in our opening to make people feel entertained and scared.