HORROR RESEARCH
We have produced a written questionnaire as a reliable source of our research into horror movies, we done this by finding out the opinions of different people. Additionally, we are going to use our questionnaire in order to identify what genres (types) of horror films people enjoy along with their views on certain aspects of what makes a good horror film. This information will help us to gain an understanding of who our target audience should be, along with developing an idea of how to structure and conduct our trailer to make it appeal to our audiences expectations.
question 1
How old are you?
We decided to ask mainly young people the following questions to do with what types of horror films they prefer as young people make up the largest audience for horrors.
question 2
What sub-genre of horror do you prefer?
From the results here it is clear to see that peoples favourite sub-genre is slasher, we have therefore planned to create a slasher trailer as it is what the audience prefers.
question 3
What is your favourite horror movie?
These results show that the audience prefer a variety of different horror films so it is not important for us to make a trailer that is similar to any popular horror.
question 4
What setting would you find the scariest in a horror film?
From these results it is clear that audiences find both a kill room and a house to be a scary location - for this reason we will try and incorporate these locations into our trailer.
question 5
Which weapon would you find the most effective and scary in a horror?
From these results we can establish that audiences find knifes and scissors to be most effective, for this reason we will incorporate these into our horror.
question 6
What way to die do you find the scariest?
Being burned to death has been voted the worst way to die, however this would be very difficult to film realistically. Instead we want to use drowning as this is the second most popular scariest way to die.
question 7
What type of music/ sound effects do you find the most effective in terms of creating an intense atmosphere?
Contrapuntal sound has been voted most effective. For this reason we will incorporate music that does not fit the moving image in order to create an intense atmosphere.
question 8
Do you prefer to watch horror film with a fictional narrative or would you rather it be based on true events?
Horror films being based on true events has scored most popular so we will make our trailer as realistic and as close to real life events as possible.