Questionaire results

In this question, we asked our ten members of the public what they would typically expect a horror movie to commence with. The most favorable result was a flashback to the origins of the horror with the least popular being getting to know the main characters. This helped with our film production and research because considering we would like our film to be unique and distinct from other horrors we think an audience would be more engaged and drawn into the film if the opening is dramatic, enthralling and chilling. Although with this in mind it would have been best to go with the most unexpected audience response if we wanted our film to be different and unique- getting to know main characters is fairly irrelevant to a horror movie and is more relevant to action, thrillers and dramas so we still wanted to keep audiences best interests in mind.  A flashback to the origins of the horror was popular by 7 people we questioned- and too what we thought that most horror movies opened with and we found that this could sometimes be prolonged and quite boring. although flashbacks help understand complex plots more...we didn't see it necessary for our particular plot.

This question was very important with our movie making developments because it allowed us to construct a theme and foundations for our horror movie because we wanted to create a horror that pleased the majority. Coincidentally and helpfully, action horrors appeared least popular and hardest to film- whilst mainstream horrors with original stroylines and predominantly having a 'undead' focus directly linked to our initial movie ideas.

This question was interestingly approached by our volunteers who completed our questionnaire- because it wasn't the answers our hypothesis expected as we typically thought our proposed key character of a grudge like girl would be the scariest option hence why our themes revolves around this idea. However, because the percentage of votes for a young grudge like girl was relatively low it almost opened up a market for us with our film opening to create a more frightful experience and expectation of a grudge like girl. additionally, because it is predominantly Asian horrors that include the usage of young grudge/undead characters or antagonists it opened up a new original and authentic basis for our movie. The low result for an escaped prisoner or criminal linked directly to our other questionnaire question about what audiences would like a horror movie to be combined with- with the lowest result being crime/action.

This question linked directly to our movie making process because we adopted views of the majority- ensuring our blood making technique produced a realistic effect with appropriate thickness and color tone so it looked real. In addition to this the coinciding popular result of close up shots of wounds and fatalities was adapted to our movie making process because we used extreme close ups when filming the girl maneuver herself from the boggy ground- and we see her blood stained hand and arm wound. We paid less attention to the deepness and realistic nature of wounds because this involved liquid latex to create these wounds and we paid closer attention instead to other aspects of mise en scene such as what the girl was wearing and where rips in her outerwear were.

These results from our questionaire proved to us that the scariest location for a horror movie was most popularly voted to be in a derelict abandoned area- hence why we reassured ourselves with the choice of having this as our location for our movie opening..additionally the second most popular result was at night time...suggesting the time and place for filming a horror movie was correct as in known places or naturally lit places there is a more welcoming happy feel rather than where a horror would be based.

our final question of the questionnaire quizzed our volunteers on what they thought of our anamatic we produced. We can see from the results that each of our anmatic aspects rated fairly highly- with only fair consideration being taken over our chronological sequencing for the movie opening. With this in mind- we have created alternate plot outcomes and endings to get opinions on to help us to produce the best possible order of events.

*our questionnaire results were based on the answers of ten individuals, of different ages. we picked over 15 year olds because our film is to be rated a 15...and our survey was made up of 5 high school individuals and 5 adults out of education with gender evenly distributed. we noticed no significant differences involving gender of our questioned volunteers or differences in the age gaps- however anomalies in our results possibly came from older generations not being as fond fans of mainstream horror*