Audience's Expectations

Audiences expectations on a psychological thriller.  (11-18 year old students)

Our group have come to a joint decision that we’re going to produce a psychological thriller. We don’t want to make it just on what we expect a psychological thriller would contain so im asking people at random what they would expect from a psychological thriller giving us a better understanding of how to go about producing it and also meeting the audiences expectations as “the audience have the greatest power”.

1) “You would expect that you would be questioning the film and what you think most of the time” – 15yr old girl.

2) “It would have to be scary and creepy, like so it gets your mind working from two directions where you’re thinking about it as well” –  12 year old boy.

3) “In order to make a good psychological thriller you would need it to be a mainstream film so you can get big actors names in it so it’s played well” -16 year old girl.

4) “you would think there would be some kind of crazy obsession or something” – 14 year old girl.

5) “I would want to fear something that turns out to be good, like so it changes” – 11 year old boy.

6) “Its always good to have tension in a psychological thriller seeing as it is tense in most thrillers but I really would want to question myself as to why it might be tense”- 16 year old girl.

7) “maybe something like the goody turns out to be the bady and the person you don’t  trust in the film turns out to be the goody” – 12 year old boy.

8) “creepy, crazy, mind blowing,  not so easy to follow so youre constantly question the story and just insane!” – 15 year old boy.

We had completely different views on what it should contain but all very helpful but because it was such a broad expectation list from the people chosen at complete random we’re only going to aim for about three and those three should cover most the other expectations.