Questionnaires:
Questionnaires are primary research in which helps gather information from the public on your chosen topic. Primary research is important because it is your own research that you have conducted and will be reliable because you're not trusting someone else's information.Advantages of questionnaires:
- Practical - Large amounts of information can be collected from a large number of people in a short period of time.
- Cheap - Questionnaires are cheap to create and also hand out which then makes it easier to get information.
- Easy for people to fill out and hand back without difficulty.
Disadvantages of questionnaires:
- No way the researcher can be 100% sure that the public have answered truthfully which may affect results.
- People may read differently into each question and therefore reply based on their own interpretation on a question. For example, what is good to someone may be poor to someone else also affecting results.
For my research I asked 20 people in a variety of age groups, from below 10 to 26+. This gave me a wide range of people I could gather information from. I also asked people from different genders and different occupations such as student, employed, unemployed and retired to give me a wide range of opinions. The most relevant feedback was from the students as they are the age group who tend to watch more thriller films as it engages them more.
My questionnaire...
Name:
Age: Below 10 10-15
16-21 21-26 26+
Gender: Female Male
Occupation:
Student Employed Unemployed
Retired
1) What
attracts you to thrillers the most?
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2) Would you
be interested in a psychological thriller?
Yes No
3) What scares you the most in thrillers?
Ghosts Zombies Possessed children Extreme violence Deaths
4) Does the idea
of supernatural attract you to thrillers, or realistic themes?
Supernatural Reality
Students Families
6) What
sub-genres are you most attracted to in thrillers?
Psychological Crime
Action Sci-fi
7) Should the
story line be obvious or unexpected?
Obvious Unexpected
8) What’s the
best thriller you've seen based on realistic ideas?
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9) Should the
protagonist in a thriller film be male or female?
Male Female
10) Do you
prefer films that have an anti-hero like “Batman” or films that victims have to
save themselves like “Saw”?
Hero Victim
11) What’s your
favorite themes in thrillers?
Death Envy
Obsession Religion Revenge
12) What
setting is the most suitable for a psychological thriller? Please state two.
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13) What
settings would be suitable for a thriller in general?
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14) Should the
antagonist be male or female?
Male Female
15) Do moments
of silence in a thriller film build tension for the audience?
Yes No
16) From the
title, which thriller attracts you the most?
Identity Silence of the Lambs I Spit On Your Grave Scream Human Centipede
17) What
thriller characters do you recognise?
Jason Joker
Jigsaw John Doe
18) What
lighting do you think should be used in thrillers?
Dark
Light
19) What’s the
first thing you look for when watching a thriller?
Problems/Conflict Dark settings Action
Tension
20) What ideas
would you like to see in a new thriller film? Please state 3.
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21) Should the
antagonist be wearing a cloak?
Yes No
22) Which of
these typographies would suit a thriller film?
Thriller
Thriller
Thriller
Thriller
Conclusion:
From making this questionnaire it will make it much more easier to plan my thriller. By asking specific questions such as "Do moments of silence in thriller films build tension for the audience?" helps as I will know exactly whether to use music or leave silences to create suspense. These specific questions will make my final product better and more satisfying for my audience.
Good evidence of your own research here. This post clearly provides and understanding that you know how to carry out your own research and what a good way is to devise your own questionnaire. Questions are relevant and hopefully will get you some good feedback!
ReplyDeleteTo improve;
-think of more advantages and disadvantages of them. Think about how you could be specific in what you asked, who you asked etc,
-what gender, occupation did you give your questionnaire to? Be specific to who would give you the most relevant feedback
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteI added more advantages and disadvantages.
I also added more detail to who I asked and who gave me the most relevant feedback.