Audience Research 1

What do you expect to see in a Thriller film?
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1)What type of camera shots do you expect to see?
- Long Shot - Extreme close-up -Mid-shot
-Establishing Shot - Dutch angle

2)What type of lighting do you expect?
- Low key lighting - High Key lighting

3) What do you expect to see?

4)What type of sound do you expect?
- No sound -Normal level of sound - Hyperbolic sound

5)What type of characters do you expect?

6)What type of thrillers do you like?

- Action thriller (Race against the Clock and a lot of violence)
- Conspiracy thriller (In which the hero/heroine confronts a powerful group of enemies whose true extent only he/she recognizes)
- Crime thriller (this particular genre is a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes.)
- Disaster thriller (In which the main conflict is due to some sort of natural or artificial disaster, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes,)
- Drama thriller (In which the story consists of the elements of a thriller and drama film.)
- Legal thriller (In which the lawyer-heroes/heroines confront enemies outside, as well as inside, the courtroom and are in danger of losing not only their cases but their lives)
- Medical thriller (In which the hero/heroine are medical doctors/personnel working to solve an expanding medical problem.)
- Political thriller (In which the hero/heroine must ensure the stability of the government that employs him.)
- Psychological thriller (In which (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical.)
- Spy thriller (In which the hero is generally a government agent who must take violent action against agents of a rival government or (in recent years) terrorists.)
- Techno-thriller (In which (typically military) technology is described in detail and made essential to the reader's/viewer understands of the plot)
- Religious thriller (In which the plot is closely connected to religious objects, institutions and questions.)