audience research

Whats your gender? 

I found that by asking this question it allowed me to have different perspective of how both boys and girls see things. This then allows me to make it suitable for both genders.

Whats your age?

By asking the public this it allows me to identify how many different age groups find different things scary, this way i can focus on the group that the target audience is. Therefore we will be able to make it not too scary or not scary enough.

How often do you watch films?

If someone was to not watch films, they wouldn't be able to identify what makes a film good, and therefore wont be able to tell us what we should include within the film. Whereas if someone was to watch films all the time then they would have a clear image in their heads of what makes a good opening sequence.

Whats your favorite film? why?

By asking people this we can look at the film and see what makes that film good and include it into our own.

What do you expect to see from a horror?

This helps us to make our film not only original with new ideas but it also allows us to include some of the expected thing that we know makes the audience scared.

What are you scared of?

This allows us to include some scary things that the audience would be scared off, this makes it certain to scare the age group that we are aiming for.

Do you watch British films?

This allows us to identify what makes the audience want to watch a British film and therefore include it into our own work.

How to you prefer the tittles to appear in the opening scene?

This makes it easy for us to decide upon what we should use when creating our tittles at the start of the film. 

What gender do you expect the lead role to be?

This is so we make the right decision when choosing the right actor.

What do you expect from a villain?

This is so we have an idea on how to represent the character in a thrilling way. 

Audience research

These are my questions from my questionnaire:

1.Whats your gender?
male? female

2.whats your age?
15-17 18-20 21-23 24-26 26+

3.How often do you watch films?
Never / 1-2 films a week / 2-4 films a week / 6-8 films a week

4.whats your favorite film? why?

5.what do you expect to see from a horror?

6.what are you scared of?

7. Do you watch British films?

8.How to you prefer the tittles to appear in the opening scene?
with a black background / over footage

9.What gender do you expect the lead role to be?
male / female

10.what do you expect from a villain?

Conventions of a Horror

Conventions of a Horror 

•  The convention of a horror needs to make the audience think about why something bad is going to happen, therefore they can feel sympathy for the character.

• It needs to leave the audience feeling in suspense so that they want to find out what happens next. 

• Short takes with fast actions makes the audience feel confused and makes them think.
• Blood allows the audience to realize that something bad has happen.
• Costume - makes the character look vulnerable. this is so that the audience can feel sympathy for the character.
• Lots of cuts and bruises from running, with messy hair. To show that the character has had a troubled time.

• Storyline makes the audience guess what has happened.
•  Fast paste  makes the scene more tense and more thrilling.
• Low key lighting, hides curtain aspects of the scene making it more thrilling to watch. It also makes the scene more mysterious.
• Hyperbolic sound makes the audience jump out of their seat.
• Props

Film ideas

The Eye

In this scene i like the use of space between the characters as they are really close and there is nothing that she can do about it except convince herself that its not real. I also like where the characters are in the frame, with the over the shoulder shot. I think that by not allowing the audience to see the full face of the man, actually makes it more scarier. The audience is only allowed to see a gimps of what the man looks like which allows the audience to use their own mind on what they think he looks like.

Harry potter

In this scene there is a lot of different types of shots used for a short duration of time which i think helps to build tension, because it doesn't fully allow the audience to see the complete picture of what they are looking at before it changes to another person. i also like the use of hyperbolic sound of the leaves and the grass snapping. The location makes it also interesting as the characters don't seem to know where they are going.

The strangers

what i think makes this film scary is the use of costume of the mask, as it doesn't allow the audience a chance to see how the people actually look, and the fact that the masks have a smiley face on them contrast to what is going on. Also the use of prop of the knife also suggest danger and violence that is about to happen.

The woman in black

I like the use of using someone who could be portrayed as innocent, as it makes the audience feel sorrow for them and makes them feel like they want them to get away. I also liked the use of the sound track that was used in the background, it sounded like a nursery rhyme which added mystery to the scene.

Locations for different genres

Locations for different genres

Thriller

This was a good location for a thriller as in thrillers there is normally an association with death. Therefore being close to the dead would make the audience feel the sorrow fort the characters and makes the audience predict what is going to happen to the characters. I also like this location as it shows the death with the life of the plants around it.   

The reason behind the church is because its dark and dingy. It is also a place of worship which a character may need to go to if they felt threatened. The blacked out windows also creates tension as the audience wants to see in.

The colours represent sadness and depression which would be why it would make it quite thrilling for the audience to want to find out more. The door knocker has a hand over it represents danger and makes the audience feel worried about who lives there and what sort of person they are.

Romantic comedy

The bus stop could be where the lovers meet for the first time. It could also be used for one of the characters to be waiting for the other lover to get off the bus. Or even saying good bye from each other when they depart. it would be funny if one of them fell off the bus.

The phone box could be used when one of the lovers calls the other one and is waiting upon the return of the other one. It would be funny because people could walk past staring at the person shouting down the phone to the lover.

This could be where the lovers sit down one evening and look up at the stars and whisper in each others ears. It could be funny because flies could get caught in their hair. then slip and fall over. 

Action adventure 

This would be a good place for action adventure because it could show the mayhem of the firemen as they are preparing for a serious situation. the red also suggest danger as it stands out.

The stairs could be used for a scene of a robber running away from the police or someone, the could also be a situation where someone is falling off it and people are trying to help.

This could be used as someone is trying to get away from someone but is stopped by the fence. within this scene we could see a lot of fighting from the characters which will make the audience want to find out more.