Horror: December 2012

Alrighty, so this entry is mostly going to focus on our questionnaire results as we designed a questionnaire in which we asked people what kind of things they would expect from a horror movie and this is basically what they said and this is the kind of knowledge we beared in mind when we were coming up with ideas for our opening.

The first question that we asked people was what kind of setting they would like to see, or what kind of setting they would find the most effective and the most popular answer being dark woods shortly followed by a domestic house which we thought would be more appropriate for our opening.

The second question that we asked our potential audience was what kind of supernatural characters they would want to see in our opening, if we were to focus on a more supernatural aspect. The main answer came back as being ghosts shortly followed by zombies but we did not use this information as our movie is more based on something that could happen in real life but this information was interesting to know.

The next question we asked in order to conduct our research was kind of trailer would people expect to see for a horror movie? Most people said that they would expect loud music along with fast shots as then that will make the movie look better and more epic but we could also use this in a manner to see what we could use in order to frighten the audience.

One the questions we asked that I found would be one the most important ones was what would the audience expect the movie to be like. A lot of people said that they would expect a horror movie to have a mixture of supernatural elements, psychological and real life but however we found that our opening would be more eerie if we focused on something that could happen in real life and this would therefore make the audience more drawn into what is happening.