The document analyzes the results of a questionnaire about preferences for psychological horror films. It found that the target audience is ages 17-20, and they prefer psychological horrors and thrillers. Flashbacks and memories are effective, as is building atmosphere with music and editing. Violence needs to be minimal and realistic. The most popular movie choices will be analyzed. Characteristics like being crazy, appearance, eyes, and speech can make someone scary. The film will focus on a crazy or delusional person who commits a crime, with a killing scene in a bedroom. Isolation is a major fear that will be exploited to make the film more effective.
8. Analysis of questionnaire
The biggest age range is from 17 to 20. This means we need to made an 18 rated film.
Research into the BBFC will need to be done so we know what makes a film an 18.
From the start we were thinking of doing some sort of psychological movie and to our
luck we found that the two most favourable genres were psychological horrors and
thrillers so we will stick to our initial ideas however we will need to do more research
into what makes a psychological film effective.
We found out from our questionnaire that our audience finds flashbacks very effective, so
we will take this into account and build our film around flashbacks and memories to
connect the audience with the character in the film. Also building up atmosphere was
picked often. Therefore research into how atmosphere is built up with music or editing
will be effective in our research so we can include it in our film effectively. However there
was also a contrast as some people also enjoyed action packed from the start, so maybe
we could use our flashbacks to build up tension then the action could start as soon as the
flashbacks finish. Which would be targeting a wider audience.
Violence wasn’t well liked as we can see, unless it looked realistic or there wasn’t too
much of it. So the violence in our film will be kept at a minimum.
The Uninvited, Dream House and The Devil Inside were the most popular movies, we will
do these 3 films in our analysis to see what makes them effective and the story plots used,
narratives and how the characters are portrayed so we can embed some of the ideas into
our film.
9. The characteristics that supposedly make someone scary is if they are crazy, hair and makeup,
their eyes and the way they talk. So we will need to find out how scary people are portrayed in
movies and what makes them stay in the back of your mind. However all the choices were found
to be important so we will try and perfect them all.
A crazy and delusional person followed by crime was the most chosen for what our audience
wanted to see in a psychological film. Therefore we will base our film around a person who could
be or is seen as someone who is crazy and maybe include a crime narrative/plot in it.
The best location for a killing scene was a bedroom, followed by a normal bedroom and a
basement. Location of an old house may be hard to find as it is dangerous and most abandoned
houses are closed off which doesn’t allow entry.
Our last questions shows that isolation was the biggest fear for 80% of our audience, we found
this question very valuable as psychological films use horror that the audience can relate to and
are actually afraid of as it could happen. Therefore we will try to include this in our film to make it
even more effective.
10. The characteristics that supposedly make someone scary is if they are crazy, hair and makeup,
their eyes and the way they talk. So we will need to find out how scary people are portrayed in
movies and what makes them stay in the back of your mind. However all the choices were found
to be important so we will try and perfect them all.
A crazy and delusional person followed by crime was the most chosen for what our audience
wanted to see in a psychological film. Therefore we will base our film around a person who could
be or is seen as someone who is crazy and maybe include a crime narrative/plot in it.
The best location for a killing scene was a bedroom, followed by a normal bedroom and a
basement. Location of an old house may be hard to find as it is dangerous and most abandoned
houses are closed off which doesn’t allow entry.
Our last questions shows that isolation was the biggest fear for 80% of our audience, we found
this question very valuable as psychological films use horror that the audience can relate to and
are actually afraid of as it could happen. Therefore we will try to include this in our film to make it
even more effective.
