Audience Research - and research into BBFC film classification system

We researched BBFC the film classification system and found out information about what is accepted into a verificate 15 film,as that is the certificate we are using.

What sort of issues might i find in certificate 15 film?

• Strong violence
• Frequent strong language (f****)
• Portrayals of sexual activity
• Strong verbal references to sex
• Sexual nudity
• Brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• Discriminatory language or behaviour
• Drug taking
• Occasionaly there may be use of the strongest terms eg (c****) although continued agressive use may not be passed at 15
• At 15,drug taking may be shown but the work as a whole must not promote drug misuse

We have decided that our project will be aimed towards the under 25's, both males and females because we thought that the under 25's would be a more appropriate audience for a thriller than the over 25's, as the interests of the younger generation are more action packed and contain more violence, and we felt that this would enable us to make our film more exciting. We also chose to aim our film at both males and females because the wider our audience is the more people the film will appeal to and the more succecful it would be.

This was our thriller film questionnaire

Here are ten possible ideas for a new thriller film, give each idea a rating from 1 to 5 according to how appealing you think it is. 5 being the best and one being the worst.

1. A man has been living in a woman’s attic, planning to attack the family, one day she goes up to the attic...
2. A man who has been stalking a woman for a long time, finally catches her at the train station as she gets off the last train
3. There is a crazy man who lives at a cemetery and abuses the people that go to mourn, his attacks get worse
4. A group of girls on a night out, suddenly one gets a call with a cold voice on the receiving end that says they are watching her
5. A woman comes home and finds her children tied up and her husband is stood above the children, her husband died a week before
6. A man has been terrorising a town killing innocent pedestrians
7. A midwife kills every baby born in the ward but blames it on a new disease
8. A woman witnesses a murder and the murderer threatens her not to tell the police, but when he finds out that she has, he seeks his revenge
9. A chef deliberately poisons peoples food


Here are ten possible titles for a new thriller film, give each idea a rating from 1 to 5 according to how appealing you think it is. 5 being the best and one being the worst
1. Attic
2. The last train
3. Platform 13
4. Crossing paths
5. The tracker
6. Cut the cord
7. The comeback
8. Stalk her
9. Gravestone
10. Sniper

The results that we got from the questionnaire are as follows:

The results from the movie ideas:

Number 5; A woman comes home and finds her children tied up and her husband is stoof over the children, her husband died a week before - 96 votes

Number 7; A midwife kills every baby born on the ward but blames it on a new disease - 89 votes

Number 4; A group of girls on a night out, suddenly one gets a phone call with a cold voice on the recieving end that says that they are watching her - 86 votes

Number 3; There is a crazy man who lives at a cemetery and abuses the people who go to mourn,his attacks get worse - 81 votes

Number 2; A man who has been stalking a woman for a long time, finally catches her at the train station as she gets off the last train - 79 votes

Number 8; A woman witnesses a murder, and the muderer threatens her not to tell the police, but when he finds out that she has, he seeks his revenge - 78 votes

Number 1; A man has been living in a womans attic, planning to attack the family, one day she goes up to the attic... - 78 votes

Number 6; A man has been terrorising a town killing innocent pedestrians - 70 votes

Number 9; A chef deliberatley poisons peoples food - 55 votes

Results from the film titles:

Number 4; Crossing Paths - 93 votes

Number 3; Platform 13 - 82 votes

Number 6; Cut the Cord - 81 votes

Number 5; The Tracker - 79 votes

Number 7; The Comeback - 77 votes

Number 2; The last train - 75 votes

Number 8; Stalk her - 71 votes

Number 10; Sniper - 65 votes

Number 1; Attic - 63 votes

Number 9; Gravestone - 56 votes