Audience research for horror opening

sequence!

15-18

19-22

23-26

27-30

31-34

As you can see here 15-18 years old students did the survey more than the other ages.

Further more 23-27 adults completed non of the survey.

female

male

More males did the survey than females.

Paranormal ActivitySawThe Exorcism

YES

NO

Most of the people that did the survey didn’t like blood and gore.

Suspence

Scary faces

Surprise/shock

Sound effects

Music

Others

People preferred to have surprise and shock in a movie. The least chosen one was scary faces.

Haunted house

Train

Forest

Mental Hospital

School

Basement

Others

The forest and the mental hospital has got chosen the same amount. The least chosen location was train.

Often

Sometimes

Never

This shows that our sample, if not horror experts, do know and enjoy the genre.

Vampires

Aliens

Zombies

Serial killer

Clowns

Other

Characters

Location

Music

Sound effect

Other

Most important thing found in a horror films are the characters.

What have we learnt?

• We learnt that there are quite a lot of people that watch horror movies

• Most of the films are likely to be watched by teenagers than adults

• Most likable villains are serial killers chosen by people who took the survey

• People who took the survey chose suspense because that’s the one that scares them the most in a film.

One thing that we’ve learnt for our opening sequence is that we shouldn’t have too much blood and gore. Another thing that we learnt was that we need the characters to look interesting and make them the centre of attention.