Horror Questionn

aireOur group has created a questionnaire which focused on sub-genre preferences, Basic iconography and other subjects - for instance, what makes the viewer uncomfortable.

We've asked people we know to complete the questionnaire in person, to ensure that if there’s any confusion about the questions we would be able to provide an explanations so we get the

best and most accurate results.

The questionnaire will give us a better knowledge of who our target audience is and what they look for in Horror films.

We kept track of the answers by making a tally, this made it easier to generalize the information into other, clearer forms such as graphs and pie charts.

Question 1

Question 2

The ages of the people we

questioned ranged from 16 to

24 – we focused on those ages

only as they’re our target

audience.

We asked 25 individuals to answer our

questionnaire.

8 of the people asked were male & 17 were female

Question 3 Question 4

No

Question 5

Yes, because I like the …

No, because I don’t like the…

Yes15 people 11 people

Gore, mystery, suspense, make you

think, realistic – believable, cool

characters, adrenaline rush,

atmosphere it creates, makes you

jump, thrill, shock, escapism

Disturbing, too much gore, creepy, not interesting, can’t fall asleep afterwards, gives nightmares, scary, prefer other types, boring, seems made up,

28%

36%

16%

20% Realistic (based on real life

events)

Human Crime (psychopaths, ma-niacs)Scary monsters (vampires, werewolves, aliens)

Occult (supernatural forces, ghosts)

Question 6

Most of the participants shown the most interest in the Horrors in the area of Human Crime. This shows us that people are more interested in the stories of psychopaths and maniacs – Why do kill? What made them that way?

What is their past?

Demon

ic P

ossiss

ion (e

g.The

Exorc

ist)

Ghosts

(eg. P

aran

orm

al A

ctivity

)

Cannib

alism

(eg. S

ilence

of t

he la

mbs)

Sci-fi

(eg. A

lien)

Vampire

s & W

erew

olve

s (e

g. Under

wor

ld)

Zombie

s (e

g. Nig

ht of t

he liv

ing d

ead)

Teen T

erro

r (eg

. Scr

eam

)

Psych

olog

ical

(eg. P

sych

o)

Slash

ers (e

g. Nig

htmar

e on

Elm

Stree

t)

Gore

(eg. S

aw)

Class

ic H

orro

r (eg

. Fra

nkenst

ein)

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Question 7

Question 8

The most

common

answer to

this question

was ‘blood’,

‘guts’ and

‘gore’.

Question 9

8%

76%

16%

Friends house

Home

Cinema

This table shows that most of our participants watch Horror films from

the comfort of their own homes - we should make

the film available to watch at home in 3D as

well as the usual 2D and allow the audience to

watch it on things like Blu-ray and Sky plus etc.

Also, making a big advertising campaign to

spread the word about the DVD releases would

attract more viewers.

Question 10

76%

20%

4%

AdvertisingFriendsOther (parents)

This information shows us that advertising is

VITAL for the films success.

For our film we would use social media

advertising as well as the usual, posters, trailer and billboards.

Question 11

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

None Rape Violence against children/animalsSuicide Acts of sexual nature TortureNudity

A majority of the people asked said that watching Horrors with

elements of VIOLENCE AGAINST

CHILDREN/ANIMALS makes them

uncomfortable.

Although we want the audience to be scared

and freaked out , we do not want them to get too horrified so that they refuse to

watch the film.

Question 12

4% of people

find it too

scary

8% of asked would switch the film off if it’s not scary enough

8% of asked said that

too realistic plots put

them off

Too artificial/too made up stories put 24% people off

20% of the people asked said that obvious special effects put them off watching a Horror

bad acting puts 36%

people off

Question 13

64% said YES, because the plots are more

cliché, more predictable and cheesy. There’s too many

remakes and the films have lost all the tension and all

that’s left is jump scares.

36% said NO, because there is an increased technology such as FX/CGI which make the

films more realistic by adding better special effects. Also, new ideas and spin offs keep getting introduced making the films more interesting.

Question 14

Images that people

asked found the

least scary

Images that people

asked found the most scary

THIS is the image that people found the

scariest – the disturbing image of babies

bodies in a jar could give anyone

nightmares.