QUESTIONNAIRE (EH)
In order for us to do further research into out audience I created this questionnaire as another source of research into horror. I asked a variety of people from our selected target audience. The information we gathered helped us to see what type of horror people preferred, this then helped us with our opening title sequence so we could produce something that we knew the audience may like. I gave this questionnaire to a variety of 20 people ages 11 - 65 and these were the results:
Which type of sub-genre horror appeals to you the most?
What fears you the most when watching a horror movie?
What type of villain is most frightening to you?
Which type of setting do you find most frightening in a horror film?
Which scenarios in a horror film most appeals to you?
From these results we gathered that paranormal was the preferred sub genre of horror films. This suggests to us the it would be a good sub genre to use for our opening title sequence as we will have a larger audience as it is most preferred.
Which type of sub-genre horror appeals to you the most?
- Slasher ||| 3
- Paranormal ||||| 5
- Thriller || 2
- Zombie ||| 3
- Torture || 2
- Ghost | 1
- Fairytale horror ||| 3
- Other | 1
What fears you the most when watching a horror movie?
- Jumpy surprises ||||||||| 9
- Scary looking character/s ||||| 5
- Scary story line that could relate to real life situations ||| 3
- Gore ||| 3
What type of villain is most frightening to you?
- Allien | 1
- Ghost ||| 3
- Vamplire || 2
- Possessed/daemon ||||||||||| 11
- Werewolf ||| 3
Which type of setting do you find most frightening in a horror film?
- Spooky surroundings e.g. A dark forest ||||| 5
- A safe place e.g. A house or a hospital ||||||| 7
- Somewhere isolated in an abandoned area e.g. an empty town |||||||| 8
Which scenarios in a horror film most appeals to you?
- Realistic |||||||||||||||| 16
- Unrealistic |||| 4
From these results we gathered that paranormal was the preferred sub genre of horror films. This suggests to us the it would be a good sub genre to use for our opening title sequence as we will have a larger audience as it is most preferred.
However we have to decided to think out of the box and go for fairytale as our sub genre for our opening title sequence. We feel that turning your childhood films into horror would be really creepy for our viewers. Also not a lot of fairytale horrors have been rated very well so we decided to go for it to see if we could turn it into something that people would enjoy and soon like because they arent very common.