One to One interviews

For my one to one interviews i wrote out 12 questions to do with the thriller genre and asked three people to answer each question. My original idea was to film everyones answers however nobody wanted to be put in front of a camera so i changed my idea to writing the answers down to the questions which i was asking my peers. I interviewed three people which come from differant age groups; one from the elderly, one from middle age and lastly a teenager, by me doing this me and my group can see the age group who are mostly intrested in thrillers and who we should base our target audience on.

To the left, i have taken a picture of the questions which i asked; as they are not clear they are:
1. Name?
2. How old are you?
3. Do you enjoy watching films?
4. What do you think of the thriller genre?
5. When you watch thrillers do you understand the storyline?
6. What types of thrillers do you enjoy more, action or horror?
7. In thrillers, stalkers and murders are usually men, would you find a film more intresting if it was a woman?
8. My idea is (i then explained) what do you think of this idea?
9. Would you be intrested to go to the cinema to see this film?

10. What part of a film captures your most attention, beginning, middle or end?
11. If a thriller is set in a dark environment do you find this more intense?
12. Do you like films which are mysterious and leave you guessing?

The first person who i interviewed was Tracy who is 43 years old. From Tracy's interview i found out that she enjoys watching films and that Thriller is her favourite genre so was intrested to hear my idea of a storyline. Tracy prefers to watch horror thrillers rather than actions as they intrest her more, and says that she will only understand the storyline depending on how good it has been directed. From this me and my group will have to take into consideration of how we are going to direct our film so that everyone will understand our storyline.

When i asked Tracy the idea which we have in mind for our film she found it very intresting as she said it leaves her with questions which she wants answered whcih would make her carry on watching the film. I have found out that it would be best to set a thriller in a dark environment as it sets up more tension.

Secondly i interviewed someone from the older age group of 63. From interviewing this person, i have found out that elderly people do not really enjoy watching up to date films which in our case means that it wouldnt be a good idea to base our target audience on elderly people as most do not like to watch thrillers.
Pat was intrested in the idea which we have in mind for our thriller opening as she said that she would be intrested to see the outcome, however she also said that the way we film it would have to grab her attention to make her want to carry on watching as she doesnt usually watch many thrillers.

Pat commented that the most intresting part of a film which captures her attention the most is the ending  as it concludes the story, in this case we would not have to take this into consideration as we are only filming the opening sequence.

Lastly i interviewed Keeley, who is a teenager of our age group. Keeley is 14 years old and is very intrested in films which are only aimed at her age group. This shows that it would be a very good idea to aim our opening of our films at teenagers as we would mainly know what they would be intrested in.
Keeley likes the thirller genre as she likes films which make her jump alot, this could be taken into consideration when we make our opening as we should make it heart racing and jumpy to keep the audience engaged. Keeley didnt like the idea of us having a stalker as a woman as she is use to watching a man commiting a crime so she therefore thinks that the woman would just be 'crazy.'

When i asked Keeley what she thought of our idea she replied 'I think it sounds very good and intresting, i would pay to watch the film. I also think that your setting sounds good, scary and dark.'

When i asked if she likes films which are mysterious and leave you guessing, she replied no because she would like to know whats going on and doesnt like cliff hangers. When making our opening sequence however i think that it would be a good idea to leave a cliff hanger as it will make the audience want to watch the rest of the film.