2. Our group asked a total of eighteen males and females some
questions relating to the genre of horror. We intend to use
these results within our horror, taking influence from them.
This is an effective way to find out what horror watchers
like
to see in a movie.
3. In this question we asked What components in horror most scare
you?The majority of the people we asked went with entrapment which
fits with our idea ofunderwater very well, as we can show
entrapment a lot.
4. In this question we asked their favourite locations for horrors
to be set in, the most popular answer turned out to be Underwater,
which fits extremely well with our idea, being underwater was
closely followed by isolation and the city so if we decided to
change our mind or if filming underwater turned out to be too hard,
we would take these two other options into account.
5. We asked our audience what they like to see most in horror
trailers, the option with the most amount of answers turned out to
be Jumpy bits which isnt something we considered doing as we wanted
the trailer to more surreal and peaceful but this is something we
will definitely try to incorporate into our trailer.
6. We asked our audience where they most like to watch horror
movies, we got an equal amount of people saying they would prefer
to watch the horror film in the cinema and on DVD, when asking them
why not TV, they said due to the adverts disrupting the viewing too
much.
7. We asked whoour target audience preferred to watch horror films
with. The options consisted of being alone, watching with a
girlfriend or boyfriend, with a friend, as a group or other. The
most obvious popular answer was to watch horror films as a
group.Watching horror films as a group make the film more fun and
bearable to watch. From this we decided to put jumpy bits in the
horror trailer as we felt this would relate to this piece of
audience research as the jumpy bits of horror trailers stand out
the most and therefore they will talk amongst each other.
8. We asked our target audience to state their gender as this can
have an impact on the way they see horror films. This result came
out pretty much 50/50 but statistically males are supposed to enjoy
horrors more especially those of the younger demographics 15-30.
Stereotypically, Men prefer more gore and violence whereas females
like a good easy to follow less gory plot line.
9. We asked our target audience how old they were to help us select
age certification and what types of components to include within
our horror trailer. For examples, if the majority of the audience
were in the youngest sector (0-16) our horror trailer would be a
bit more take compared to the older sectors. Judging from our
outcome, the majority of our audience appear to be 17-24 so we know
what levels of gore and violence we can use within our horror
trailer now.
10. We asked out target audience how they would describe how often
they tend to watch horror films.Ranging for a lot to not at all,
this poll is a tough and pretty equal one. Aroundthe same number
ofpeople said they occasionally, rarely and watch horror films
often. I decided from this that our horror film should break away
from the stereotypical horror film which is produced a lot to grab
the attentions of viewers that may not be a huge fan or watch
horror films a lot.
