Horror Quantitative

Results

Priyanka Chandarana

To find out the results shown on the next slides, I had to produce a survey on question pro. From the survey I created, for it to get replies I send it out to different social media websites to get people to respond to the questions. I wanted to find out quantitative results because I needed to compare the results found from the respondents. Quantitative data is numerical and can be analysed this is why it is good for me to find results what are Quantitative as I can compare what my audience like and do like, so I have an appropriate trailer for an audience. The total amount who responded were 82.

How?

GenderMale – 40/48.78

female – 42/51.22

Just to find at who answered our survey I asked if they were male or female, it was a very fair amount between males and females but knowing that I sent out my survey out on social media websites such as twitter and FaceBook I know that most of the people who replied were between the ages of 14-24. This will help me on the making of my trailer as I know I need to make a trailer based on a certain age rating either 15 or 18.

I asked my audience what is their favourite animal, this was because I wanted to find out if they like more aggressive and masculine animals or soft, cute and feminine animals. This helps with the creation of my trailer because I know as they like more animals such as dogs and tigers I can make the trailer more aggressive, scary and masculine. It gives an insight of what people like and what they are like, as the highest amount was dogs I will know to include violence and more horror to the trailer.

Personality

Tiger Dog Lion Cat Monkey Dolphin

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What's your favourite animal?

Animals

I wanted to know if the people who were responding like horror films, because if they do the answers they respond to in the next question would not to relate to them if the did not. Most the people who responded to the questionnaire liked horror films, this helped me because I could understand what they liked about the past films they’ve watched or what I could include.

Horror Movies

How people

consume?The way people consume the films they watch has changed over the last years, from asking people I found a lot of people who answered my questionnaire do not go to the cinema any more to watch films. Over half my audience now download the films they watch. The amount of people that download could suggest they are downloading the film illegally. I have found the amount people go to the cinemas has dropped a substantial amount.

CharacteristicsMy audience have different opinions of what scares

them when watching horror movies. When people watch horror films there are different characteristics such as sound, villains, location or characters which can scare them. When asking my audience I found most the people said sound scares them the most, this is probably people the sound is subjective, this is that it is exaggerated so its louder and scarier then it should be. As sound was the most popular I now know that the music or voice over's I add to my trailer need to be important and connect to the audience. Without sound added to a tense moment people would not be able to connect or react to what they are seeing because it can make a scene more understanding. The Pie Chart is on the next slide.

Characteristics

Certain locations are more terrifying then others, people tend to find more dark and isolated places more horror. Most people who answered my questionnaire found woods and grave yard the most frightening places, over house, hospital or car park. In the making of my trailer this will help me as I know that I should film parts of it in places such as woods or grave yards.

Location

Colours I needed to find colours

which relate to horror films and what colours go well together. I asked my audience what colours represent horror movies, found from this most agreed that black, white and red are the representations of horror films. From this my three colour scheme will the chosen colours.

Black, Yellow

Favourites When people answered this question I aimed to find a film that I could relate my trailer to, I found most people liked Friday 13th the most. From watching the Friday 13th movie I can get an insight of what people could of liked about the film and how I could include things. I could reference intertextuality in my trailer by using main feature of Friday the 13th, so that it relates to my audiences preference.

Texas Chainsaw

Weapons My Villain in my trailer needs to have weapon to make the gore in the film to create the deaths and horror atmosphere. Chainsaw and knife were the most popular answer but as a realistic weapon that I can use I choose knife over chainsaw. In many slasher trailers the main weapon I have seen is a knife this is a main code and convention in slasher trailers.

Scariest

Insidious House of wax

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Saw Para-normal Activity

Evil Dead Childs Play

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What is the most terrifying horror movie you have seen?

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Films

I wanted to watch some horror movies to find what is scary in them, for this I had to ask my audience what they found the most terrifying horror movie is?. I found most of my audience found Insidious or House of Wax the most terrifying horror movies. From watching these films it will help me gain an understanding of what they found scary in the movies so that them certain factors can be consider in the creation of my trailer.

Evaluation From finding out my results and considering them to the creation of my trailer I am now able to understand what to add in to my trailer and what they like to see. I did not ask the age of my respondents because I know that the people who use social media websites the most are aged 14-24 and because I want to either aim my trailer at 15 or 18 year olds there response will change or add to my trailer. Overall I have found I will add a far amount of gore to my trailer, I will use a knife as a weapon and use black, white and red as my colour theme. I also know that I should add or relate to films such as Friday the 13th and insidious.