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How often do you watchhorror films?

Very often (3+weekly )

Ofter (1-3 a week)

moderately (1-4 amonth)

Rarely (1 or lessmonthly)

These findings imply that the majority of

people questioned rarely watch horror

films and only watch horror films about

once a month. This signifies that we might

have asked the wrong audience as their

opinion on horror films may be limited.

I think the options available to select were

suitable and they had enough option and

there was at least one that applies to

everyone.

There were 2 people that often watch

horror films 1-3 times a week. These twoindividuals will give concise and

evaluative opinions.

What style of horror filmdo you prefer?

Slasher

Demonic

Apocoliptic

Psychological

Looking at the findings our audience preferably would watch

Physiological horror films. To me this connotes that gore

apocalyptic conventions have either been over used or are not

scaring enough and add enough tension.

Looking at the other options available the next most popular

was apocalyptic. Even though recently a lot of apocalyptic films

have been comedys or rom coms, for example. Finding a friend

for the end of the world, 2012 and The day after tomorrow.

The findings suggest that a physiological horror would be the

best genre to base my production about. It would allow me to

create tension through physiological genre conventions.

The connecting of two genre conversion would be even better as

it would meet the genre conventions of other viewers and not

just our target audience. It would allow me to include more

genre conventions that meet the needs of the audience.

What part of a horror film do youprefer?

The build up

The climax

Equilibrium

How the actors/actresses are portrayed

The story plot as a whole

Analysing the results I can identify that the

audience that I questioned preferred the

story plot to be of quality, rather than certain

aspects to be better than others.Evaluating the ways in which horror films

are written, most of the effort is

concentrated on specific scenes instead of

the story line as a whole. This allows the

director to concentrate on the genre

conventions to maximise the tension and

build up.

32%

27%

18%

23%

male female

neither both

Looking at these results, they show that the

audiences favourite character would be a

male. Reason for this may be due to the

majority of people asked were female or

because they allow for more action and gore

in films. The second favourite is women. This

could be due to the male gaze and the need

for sexual references. This is an aspect I think

will be incorporated within my production as

it suits the targets needs and wants,

Who would you prefer to be theprotagonist within my production?

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29%

48%

14%

10%

unexpected character

young character

stereotypical character (pyscho, janitor)

supernatural source

0%14%

50%

9%

27%

0%

0-5 6-15 16-25

26-40 41-65 65+

5%0%

36%

59%

PG Age 12 Age 15 Age 18

Looking at these statistics it is clear our biggest

target audience are young adults aged 16-25.

This shows the reason for the most popular age

rating being 18 as the young adults might feel

rebellious and important if people know they

have watched films above their own age rating.

The dangers here could be night mares and

physiological troubles. The conventions could be

used for this purpose but only for the age range

sated as they may be able to cope with these

problems.

Looking at the results the favourite

character is the younger one as they go

against some genre conventions are

usually more shocking, for example:

Orphan, The Ring and The Last

Exorcism. As children are portrayed as

innocent and helpless it creates a sense

of surprise and sickness as they go

against the codes and conversions.

Looking at these results it reflects that the

majority of the people who answered the

questions prefer horrors that are rated 18.

This connotes that they ideally prefer this

rating because it allows for the most

violence, gore, death and more.

The genre conventions that films rated 18

are those that usually go against the normand whats expected, hence the highest

rating. To me this implies that young adults

aged 16-25 prefer things that go against

genre codes and conventions and the norm.

How old are you?

Who would you prefer to be theantagonist in my production?

What age rating do you think allowfor the best horror movie?