The Group includes; Honor Cooke, Rhianna Griffin and Elliot Hunter.

SURVEY ANALYSIS.

This question was to ascertain the gender of an average horror viewer, however it isn’t certain if this is

representative of an average viewer or the personal preferences on the gender of people who could be bothered to reply…However according to original opinion, Female is

the most prolific viewer. We should attempt to orient features and stereotypes as well as humour towards the

average mind-set of stereotypes and sense of humour of a female.

It seems the most likely age range of response and from this the most likely horror viewer from the results is yr11-sixth form(15-19) This could mean we need to explore more graphic or mature conventions of horror to satisfy the audience, however there will

be a minor young audience so we should also account for that fact.

Of the people who responded with a definite answer, supernatural and gore were the most popular of the sub-genres, this is convenient as we had already planned to use these in a

psychological horror.

From the survey of people who had decided, gothic horror was the least popular sub-genre, this means any romance planned in the film will be downplayed to concentrate on horror and distance it from this genre. However Gore was also quite unpopular so making gore a focus is not advisable, gore will be a factor

but the gratuity will not cloy amongst the gore lovers in the audience.

The most popular age rating was “18”. This means we should be able to explore more graphic or mature themes in the horror,

however the other age ranges are also quite popular so we should keep horror conventions that would appeal to the other age

ranges also.

This matches the general consensus of what we are using to create the horror in the film, however there seems to be a

noticeable emphasis on tension being the scariest convention of horror so we should emphasise tension throughout the film to

appeal to the response from the survey. We will also add a greater emphasis on the blood and gore in the film as this was basically

non-existent in the former script.

This fact surprised to some extent, as we were going to use camera angles to infer as to the fates of the characters for a thrill. However it seems that the audience

expresses little empathy for the characters shown as it was voted the least frightening horror convention. Blood and gore was also a close second, being voted second as most and least frightening, this may lead to only one scene featuring the theme or a single extreme depiction of blood and gore. It is also important to note

that only 1% of the responses voted tension as the least frightening, showing clearly that tension is a convention well received as scary. This should play a

major role in our film.

This indicates that most viewers have no qualms about gender representation in the lead cast with both also shown as preferable

so nothing will change most likely in terms of characters.

This proves a rather shocking fact about general gender stereotyping in film as it is a near unanimous decision they would

believe a male to be the most likely killer, this is quite a convenient fact to play on for two reasons. Firstly, it makes it easier for any

type of male character to be a believable killer with brief displays of psychotic tendencies. And secondly it gives quite a clear twist that could shock the audience, the idea of a female killer seems

very surprising towards our target audience.

This proves that sometimes the cliché horror conventions are the best, with a knife being voted the most likely murder weapon, as

well as butcher knife being listed several times in the other section. However, this could mean we should use a different murder weapon in order for the film to be less predictable.