Focus Group Findings

We made a focus group of three adults and three 16 year olds. We chose these ages because it spanned our entire potential audience, bearing in mind our film was predicted to be a 15. This revealed that the people we interviewed and gave our questionnaire to most wanted:

• Suspense
• Chase scenes
• Elements of comedy
• Scare scenes
• Romantic elements
• Horror elements

They listed their favourite thrillers as:

• Shutter Island(2010)
• Salt(2010)
• Sherlock Holmes(2010)
• Silence of the Lambs(1991)
• Psycho (1960)

Using this information, we will try to craft our thriller to meet the needs of a modern audience by watching these films and studying the elements they liked.

By Bart Lang