18TH DECEMBER : - Today the three groups (including mine) of film watched four openings of films, with genres such as pshychological/crime thriller Seven, action thriller Casino Royale, pyshchological thriller Memento, horror/supernatural thriller Carrie 2: the rage, horror thriller The Descent. Our analyses included the mise-en-scene, camera shots/angles, sound (diegetic and non-diegetic), editing, performance, what happens and what you find out and your own personal response to the sequence.
Thinking of our own personal response to the sequence is actually very helpful and effective as the audience we are aiming for are around our age group.
On this day i created my questionnaire, with twelve questions and printed out ten copies which i gave to people around the college to fill in.
my queastionnaire is as follows:
Questionnaire
1. Are you:
Male
Female
2. How old are you? 12 – 14
13 – 15
16 – 18
18+
3. What genre of film do you prefer to watch?
(Tick as many as needed)
Horror comedy thriller romantic fantasy
Action adventure crime/gangster musicals
War films westerns sci-fi epic/historical
4. With the genre of thriller which sub-genre do you prefer to watch?
Horror thriller crime thriller psychological thriller
Action thriller disaster thriller medical thriller
Supernatural thriller
5. Where do you prefer a thriller to be set, which location is most effective to you in creating an atmosphere of suspense?
Dark woods dingy room empty church graveyard
School/college dark alley hospital empty warehouse
6. Which image would disturb you most?
Virgin Mary with sewn up eyes holes in a girls hands
A hand clasping a cross so much it cut’s their hand
A girl bound and gagged
7. What sort of sound do you prefer for an opening of a film?
Disturbing classical a well known band or singer
Speech sound effects
8. What sort of characters do you prefer to watch?
Serious funny unique the hero the villain
Hot, screaming girls, wearing next to nothing that always seem to appear in thrillers, commonly known as the ‘emotional character)
The skeptic (doubts everything)
The guardian (usually in the form of the elderly)
The trickster (or the ‘rebel’)
9. Consider a thriller you have recently seen, think of the opening what was the most effective feature of this opening?
Images sound text (for names of actors, actresses and directors etc)
Special effects noticeable/well done editing other
Please specify
10. What do you usually like to see in an opening sequence of a film?
Images that correlate to the film effective and well timed music
Special effects cohesive editing voice over or speech/soliloquy
11. Do you prefer long or short opening sequences?
Long
Fairly short
Don’t mind
12. What type of font do you prefer to see in opening sequences?
Easy to read fitting of the genre of the film
Large small-ish (as not to obscure the images)
Thank you ever so much for answering this questionnaire!! ^_^
there were also tick boxes as i used only closed ended questions as this creates quantative data which is easier to incorporate into graphs and then analyse.
