Questionnaire and Results

We created a questionnaire online asking some multiple choice questions and have shared a link to it publically enabling friends and family to help us out by filling it in if they wish. When results begin coming in, the data will automatically be analysed and we can view which of our options were most popular, and therefore what we should include in our opening sequence. - 8th November 2016

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/K3DQCKY

Question 1:

Our top results for question one, as you can see, shows that psychological horror and paranormal horror would be the best approach to take with our opening scene. This therefore means that we will be having the presence of ghosts, confusing camera angles to make the audience feel psychologically uneasy and lastly we feel that some use of gore would be a benefit to our film.

Question 2:

Our results show that an underground train station would be the best & most popular place to host our film. Having spoken to people, they said it was because it was relatable, unpredictable and unique.

Question 3:

The survey takers said that a use of drugs would be the best. I like this idea due to the psychological effects drugs have on their user and also the different emotions that it makes the user feel compared to normal.

Question 4:

I like the idea of our characters being dressed up for a night out as it shows that they have plans for a good evening, and the events of our film will probably end up contradicting this. The outfits with a mixture of drinking creates a relatable situation for the audience and may therefore scare them more.

Question 5:

A group of teenagers won when it came to judging which characters would be best to star in our opening scene. I believe this is because they are relatable characters for the audience we are targeting, and an older audience can relate to them from their past experiences.

Question 6:

It is a typical convention of the horror genre to use low-key lighting, so i am not surprised this is the result. I also think it is good because darkness does create a fear of the unknown. Furthermore, this with a mixture of the use of darkness and torches would create a dramatic, yet interesting effect.

Question 7:

The takers of our questionnaire appeared to be slightly indecisive about whether they would prefer a normal camera angle or a shakey camera to demonstrate uneasiness. Due to the results being so close, we will probably use a mixture of the both.

Question 8:

We are going to use normal editing techniques. I feel this was the result because the best horror films are those that are relatable and natural. It would obviously be unnatural if a group of teenagers started walking in slow-motion.

Question 9:

Due to the audience wanting no music, we will probably aim to do this throughout, again because it makes it most relatable for the audience. The use of slow classical music may also benefit our production.

Question 10:

It is clear that a younger audience is who our work will be aimed at.

We are going to use the results we have received and aim to research around these areas of success in our questionnaire and find the best setting, actors and props according to this research. For example, the audience decided that they would like to see an underground station being used so we will research various underground stations, visit them and take photographs of them and analyse the benefits and difficulties of that filming location.