Questionnaire Feedback

Questionnaire Feedback

From the first question, the style of horror film that the audience would be prefer to see, would be psychological horror alongside paranormal. As a group, we thought that the effects of a paranormal horror would be psychological, therefore we will combine these with a bit of gore to add in the conventions of this genre.

From the second question, the setting that the audience thought would create a good horror film was an underground. Therefore as a group we would look into filming in the underground, it was closely followed by a house so we may incorporate this in too.

The third question was ‘What props would you like to see?’ the main response was drugs and creepy dolls. As a group we will have to brainstorm hon how to add in these props to the opening two minutes to entice out audience.

The fourth question was referencing costumes. The main costume that the audience wanted to see was ‘Dressed up for a night out’, this would then help us create a good story line for the opening two minutes.

When reviewing the fifth question, ‘What characters would you enjoy watching?’ it was clear to see that a group of teenagers was by far the most popular, this will be an advantage to us because of our age. This means we can use our friends as actors and actresses to take part in our media project.

The sixth question about lighting was a tight vote. Low-key lighting and Night-time with torches were very close in votes. Low-key lighting was the most popular as this is the main type of lighting used in a horror films showing that this is a typical convention.

Once again, looking at styles of camera angles, there was another tight vote, however the majority of people voted for a normal camera angle. As this was closely followed by shaky camera, we will incorporate this in too.

The eighth question was referring to types of editing. Once we’ve collected all of our shots this will play a key role. Normal type of editing was the most popular, this means that the music and non-diegetic sound will have to be extremely important to create tension and build suspense.

The ninth question was; ‘What type of music should be playing in the background’, the more popular was ‘no sound just diegetic sound’, however to create tension we will add in some non-diegetic music as this will intrigue that audience more.

The last question was to do with the target audience. We chose this question so we knew who to aim our film at. The most popular was young female, however from other research, we found that young males aged between 15 and 24, were more likely to go and see a horror film.

Overall, after analysing all the data we have taken it on board and are in the process of discussing our storyline and setting. The feedback received was very helpful, therefore we, as a group, will take it on board to think about the props, setting used and who our target audience would be, from this we can then think about the certificate of the film overall.