Audience Questionnaire

Film Questionnaire.

What age group are you?
12-15 16-19 20-25 26-30 30 +

What gender are you?
Male Female

Do you enjoy watching horror movies?
Yes No

If you replied'Yes' in the previous answer, What sort of horror movies do you like? (Select as applicable)
Psychological Slasher Supernatural Macabre (gothic)
Suspense None

Do you think trailers are important in deciding whether you want to see an upcoming film?
Yes No

In your opinion do trailers reveal too much about the film?
Yes No Sometimes n/a

Do you have a preferred actor/actress that you would like to see in an upcoming horror?
Name______________________ No preference

Does a film poster contribute to your interest in a film?
Yes No

Do you read film magazines, if so which ones?
Yes No

In relation to the last question, would reading exclusive material on an upcoming film encourage you to see it?
Yes No

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire.

Initial Ideas: Our Film Poster

Sketched Poster Idea
Paint version of Poster

Genre Research: Horror

The Nature and Effectiveness of Horror Films: Horror films are unsettling films made to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to effect and reveal our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking ways while entertaining us at the same time in an experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, strange and alarming events. They deal with our vulnerable sides and fears, our nightmares, our alienation, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality. Horror films are also known as chillers, scary movies, spookfests, and the macabre.

Some information was gathered from the following Links: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091109072841AADfQUG
http://www.movie-page.com/stuff/article-horrorflicks.htm
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html

Types of Horror Films:
Slasher
Macabre (gothic)
Psychological
Suspense

Slasher flicks: Halloween, Friday the 13th, Saw, The Scream Series, The Hitcher, Slumber Party Massacre, Freddy Krugar: Nightmare on Elm Street.

Monster Movies: An American werewolf in London, Alien, The Blob, Poltergeist.

Smart/Psychological Horror: Rosemary's Baby, The Devil's Advocate, Event Horizon, Silence Of The Lambs.

Gore Galore: Dead Alive, Dead Alive 2, Living Dead Series, Event Horizon, Wishmaster.

Poster Research Continued..

Grace and I used these two 'teaser' posters for the dark comedy/horror 'Jennifer's Body' starring Megan Fox and the vampire-esque television series 'True Blood' as we find it interesting just how similiar they are. However we like the idea of the girl featuring on the poster in extreme close up but we feel that the bright red lips and the blood drips symbolises a more vampire concerned plot anc character so we decided to use similiar conventions like the angle of the camera and the pale skin but different coloured make up e.g. pink lips and blonde hair on our own poster creating a more innocence character rather than the vampy look that is portrayed in these two posters.

Horror Film Poster Research

This is also a teaser trailer for the 2009 3d feature 'My Bloody Valentine'. This was an effective poster to use for horror film research as it contrasts with both the 'Saw' and 'H2' poster as the suspect and the victim are both featured on the front, however the suspect, holding an axe is only a silhouette giving the audience the smallest hints of narrative possible in attempt to retain mystery. This is an idea that we are definately considering as this convention would attract an audience to a horror poster as they would be curious.

This is a teaser poster for the recent Halloween release, 'Halloween 2'/'H2' as it releases little information e.g. only the title, director and the date of release. I have used this poster in my research as it contrasts with the 'Saw' poster due to the fact that the suspect is featured on the front of the poster, rather than the victim, helping me to gather ideas as to what characters I will include on my main poster. I think that the appreviation of 'H2' in fiery colours is effective as it suggests that the audience are already familiar with the the 'Halloween' series. The teaser poster for 'Saw' is similiar to 'H2' as the infamous 'Michael Myers' is featured also in black and white suggesting dark content.

This is a teaser poster that was released for the film 'Saw'. I have included this poster in my film poster research as I think that it portrays typical conventions of a horror poster due to its colours e.g. the bright red and black and the black and white image enhances with blood red on only certain aspects of the nurse, this poster suggests the narrative as we can tell that the nurse is the victim due to the expression on her face, this is an aspect of horror posters that I wanted to research to see which of my characters should be included on the front. I have also used this poster in my research as I wanted to explore what taglines horror posters use. This gave me some ideas as to what colours I am going to include in my film poster and what my tagline may be.