Vox Pop Analysis

We have conducted a vox pop interview to the public to get a general idea of thrillers, this idea was that audience interpretations of a good thriller can vary depending on what they think is the most important feature. weather that be Mise-en-scene or diegetic or non diegetic sound . Vox pops are used to get opinions/ ideas of what people think of either current affairs of a certain topic that is being researched.

The first question we asked was what is their favourite thriller and why and these where the responses:

•  "The Bourne trilogy because they're exciting and keep me on the edge of my seat".

• "Skyfall because I like the actors and how they portray the scenery around them in the film and it's also good how they mixed in all the gadgets from all the James Bonds before this one".

• "My favourite thriller is the Dark Knight because it has lots of action and great acting".

• "It has to be the Departed because it's got a good story line and is perfect in every way. The story is interesting and keeps you guessing all the way through".

From the responses given we can gather typical events and themes that people enjoy seeing in a thriller and we have some ideas of what we could incorporate maybe into our thriller opening. One main thing is a good story line that needs to be interesting yet quite fast paced that gets the audience on the edges of their seats at all times and keeps them guessing what comes next after our opening scene. The other idea that we can see is the use of reoccurring mise-en-scene factors that really emphasizes the genre just like the use of old gadgets in the James bond series in the newest skyfall film. We could use props that emphasizes the fact our opening thriller scene is a detective genre.



 The second we asked was what do they look for in a thriller and these where those responses:

• "A good plot, has to have good actors and its got to have a good storyline".

• "Like it to have all the conventions of a thriller such as; car chases, action, main antagonist and a good storyline altogether".

• "Interesting story and interesting characters as if there wasn't a good storyline it wouldn't be a good thriller".

From these results we can see a big trend in what makes a thriller what it is and it is clearly a need for a good and interesting storyline, one person we interviewed said a extremely good point that if there wasn't a good storyline and actors them it wouldn't be a thriller, we don't want our opening to be rubbish we want it to be interesting. Because we are doing a detective style thriller we especially need to get the audience gripped from the beginning of the film in the opening sequence with a strong yet mysterious storyline sure to keep the audiences attention.