The Questionnaire
We printed off a questionnaire to get our target audience's opinions on their favourite types of horror films and what they want to see. We used the format you are seeing either side of this text and we went back online and changed the tally into a total. We asked a total of 20 people about their opinions. This kind of research is good because it can help us determine any potential trends or gaps in the film market which we could work on filling with our ideas.
After reviewing the questionnaire we came to the conclusion that we should create a film that appeals to both genders since we had an equal amount of males and females interested in taking part in our questionnaire. Despite our age demographic being 12-16 we decided to aim for 17-21 year olds as they would be far more likely to watch our horror movie which we have rated an 18. We have also decided to create a slasher movie since it was the most popular genre picked in our questionnaire In terms of scariest locations a school was the most popular so have decided to base our movie in a school. The favourite horror weapon chosen by people taking part in our questionnaire was a knife and whilst we have decided to use 'medical equipment' as our weapons we do plan to include a knife as the murders get more gruesome and less meticulous. Leatherface was the most popular horror villain and we have reflected this into our movie by making the murders as gruesome and gory as possible. We found in our questionnaire that the age people usually started watching horror movies was 3-15 and so we decided to pick a topic which would be popular amongst that age group and older even if it wasn't entirely appropriate for them to watch. |