Questionaire Result Anaylsis

 

For my questionnaire I asked 7 females and 3 males therefore as females typically don’t prefer horror films the results may different compared to if I did it the other way round. Although this could help doing it this way to persuade people who don’t typically watch the Horror Genre to do so. The main age range I asked was 16 – 24 as this is the likely age range that our film will be for. It will also help to cater the film to that age range and to what they may prefer when watching a horror film. 

When asked what genre they prefer most of the people asked prefer Rom-Coms to Horror or Thriller, this could be due to a majority of the people asked being female. However, when making the film I will try to change the opinion of these people. The most people asked only watched horror films yearly however half of these watch horror films at least monthly due to this some of the results may not be reliable for certain questions that are horror specific although this may help to see what is preferred by those who don’t watch Horror films.

All of the people asked expected the villain to be male as this is the stereotype for the male character to be the bad character within a horror film and none of the people asked believed that that character should be female. I could try to challenge this by making the villain a female character instead of a stereotypical male. For the main character this was more evenly balanced although over half expected the character to again be Male which is a different response than what you would expect as the Female character is usually seen as the vulnerable one although it could be interesting to see a Male character being the one in danger.

The type of Villain that the people asked expected Supernatural, Physiological or a Child none of the people asked expected the villain to be an Alien. It would be quite hard to challenge the audience on this, although the three top choices could be incorporated together. When asked about the location the top responses were both woods and city with countryside receiving no votes. It is possible to include multiple locations within the film so we could use the top locations from the questionnaire.

When asked what is the most effective within a horror film there was several top answers that the people asked felt where the most important. Both Non-Diegetic and Diegetic Sound were top responses in my questionnaire. Camera Angles, Costume and Lighting also received top responses with Costumes being the second highest response. Whilst Props and Editing only received 1 response for each they are still an important role in the process. The top two answers for the weapons were Knifes and Chainsaw. Although it may not be possible to encorperate certain weapons especially a Chainsaw it could be interesting to have the villain use different weapons to what the audience would expect.

For this question the people asked had to number titles of Horror films 1 to 5. When added up the lowest score equals the best title. This was Séance although the comments that people said could be used to influence the title. At least two of the responses mentioned how the colour red shows danger and looks like blood also with the best title it was commented that is looks like fire which could represent a fear. Several people also thought that the use of capitals in a title was effective as well as this they also said how they were more drawn to a title that was eye catching and stands out.