Analysis of Questionnaire Results

1. Gender:

From the results collected I found out that the majority of people I asked were Male. Out of 21 we had 12 Males creating a 57% and 9 Females with the other 43%. With more males it fits in with the stereotype of males watching Horror Films, and it also fits in with my target audience of a more male dominated audience.

2. Age:

The majority of the people who answered my questionnaire were aged between 16-20 at a rate of 14 out of 21 to have a percentage of 67%. The people between 21-26 had a percentage of 15% and accounted for 3 people. The other two ages each had 2 people with a percentage of 9% each. Again this fits in with my generic profile of the target audience were I want to aim the film at people aged between 16-26.

3. What do they expect a Horror to be Set?

The majority of people I ask would expect a horror movie to be set in an abandoned house, with the next being in Dark Woods and the third would expect another setting to be used such as an apocalyptic setting or a Empty Town. The percentage of people who would more expect it in a abandoned house was 56% with a Dark Woods being 23% and others being 15%.

4. Favourite Horror Film?

This question got a lot of different answers to from films such as Zombieland to The Exorcist and Women In Black, however they were a few that people said was they favourite film such as Paranormal Activity, Zombieland, The Shining and 28 Days Later. However all the films cover a lot of sub-genre of Horror films.

I knew that we would get a lot of different answers to this but it was more asked to get a broad overview if people liked a certain film and if any films that people chose followed a sub-genre.

5. What sub-genre Horror film are they more likely to watch?

This question seems to be more evenly spread, as we can see from the Pie Chart Comedy Horror have a 38%, Zombie Horror is at 19%, Psychological Horror is at 28% and Slasher Films at 15%. With my initial film idea it does sort of fit in with the idea but it does not mean I have to agree with the results. Because the Zombie Horror percentage is within the middle I can still apply to a majority of my audience.

6. What scares them the most?

It is pretty obvious that Fear of the Unknown has the majority of what scares people the most at 53% with Apocalyptic Earth next at 23%. This fits in with idea and again I can use this fear to create greater atmosphere and suspense among my audience members who will watch.

7. What do they think is the most Important thing to get across in the first 2 minutes?

Number 1 Importance:

What people thought was most important to get across in the opening sequence was the introduction of characters at 53%. However I would like to disagree and say that to get the audience to ask questions (Enigma Codes) in the opening 2 minutes to then further develop these questions and answer them later on in the film to create a climax.

Number 2 Importance:

Number 2 Importance is much widespread but the biggest percentage is location at 28% shortly followed again by characters at 23%. In conclusion with these results I would like to agree that location is important in the opening sequence to set the scene.

Number 5 Importance:

The least important as said by my questionnaire answers is to Set Up the Film so it has given me further confidence to continue with my initial idea.

8. How should the music be in a Horror Film?

The majority of people said that a horror film should include a very quite piece of music which has loud sudden climaxes and includes a lot of high strings to create tension and mystery. For example the music used in Hannibal composed by Hans Zimmer. I have used this soundtrack as inspiration to add to the suspense of what could be.