Survey Results (Feedback)

This is pretty straight forward, this is just to make sure that the people who will be viewing our film are of age. Everyone is above the age of 15 so they are able to watch out trailer, for if they were below the age of 15 there would have to be consent from a guardian or parents. Our main audience are the people in our year and mainly in our class, not everyone would be 18 upon the release of our film so I think it would be best to make it a 15. Also there would not be any sexual scenes and I do not want to rely on blood guts and gore to scare the audience I'd rather rely on suspense and real tension.

Again this does not really give us much detail, it is just to find out the male to female ratio in our audience. Many believe that more males like horror films, but study's show that it is pretty much equal, just as many females enjoy to watch horror films. Perhaps to make it more accurate I could hand out questionnaires to the rest of the year so I can get a better boy to girl ratio. Besides whether it is a boy or a girl watching the film it would effect the plot.

Here we can find out how many people within our audience actually like watching films. And it is a bit of a mixed results, 3/7 people say they are die hard film buffs with another 2 saying they are very interested. So this lets me know that there is a big market, even within a small niche group. But also the ones who are slightly interested are still important, for I now want to make my trailer appeal to them and hopefully change their mind. This also allows me to play with the plot more, if there are quite a lot of people who are interested in film I don't have to necessarily make it easy watching. I can  play around with the trailer and make it more psychologically challenging for people who are fans of films would probably enjoy it more, a film that keeps them on the edge of their seat and makes them really think about it.

This is very interesting for our film is horror / psychological based. There is only one out of the seven who are very interested in the horror genre, the rest are slightly interested or quite interested. Now this does not mean there is a small market for the horror genre, not at all, but only within my small niche audience. But again this sets me a challenge, me and the cast will now want to change peoples mind on the horror genre and hopefully give them a new genre to watch. This allows a lot of room for maneuver, because it seems like a lot of people in the audience do not watch horror films on a regular basis, so i now want to take influence from all of my favorite film and directors, and combine them into my film to give them the best experience i possibly can.

This is some very positive feedback for me and my partner Thomas. There is a varied response here with three different sub-genres with multiple votes. Now our film is a bit of a mix between these three genres and has different aspects of all. This gives us a good foundation to start out film from for we can take the best and our favorite aspects from these genres, combine them and include them in our film to give the viewer the best experience. Also one of my biggest dislikes is the over use of gore in horror, and it seems that no-one else is interested also, so I will not have to over-do it in my film.

Again this is very positive feedback, for the majority said they liked suspense in a horror film. And this fits well with our film for it is the idea of 'heard but not seen' so there will be a lot of suspense and tension in out film, along with the odd jump scare thrown in for good measure. Also horror and fear has been chosen by many, which again is fitting with our film because the fear and horror really goes hand in hand with the suspense, we want to install all of these emotions in our audience for we think this is key for making a great trailer.

This shows that 85% of the class prefer big blockbusters to small indie films, good quality production. Which will be hard for us for we are filming on a budget of basically nothing. But I think being an independent company with no budget can help us for we are allowed to break classic conventions and go outside of the box to create our final product. Really challenging the audience. Though I do believe more people enjoy 'blockbusters' because they're much more easily accessible, what I mean is they're everywhere. Billboards, tv adverts, magazines, sides of busses, you can't get away from them. They're in the cinema so we just naturally watch them, and also because generally the production quality is better because they have millions to spend. But independent films don't have that kind of platform and we rarely get to view one, especially a good quality one. Take 'Paranormal Activity' for example still had a $15,000 budget but that's small in comparison to other films, now it is a global franchise with more than 4 films.