Audience Research on what should be included in our film

Questionnaire Age Group: 18-25 (please only fill in if you are in this age group)

Q1) How often do you attend the cinema in year?
 None 1-3 4-9 10-19 20+

Q2) Do you see many horror movies?
 Yes  No  Not Often

Q3) If you had to see a different type of killer weapon other than knife or gun what would it be? _______________________

Q4) What type of music best suits horrors? (Tick more than one if preferable)
 Lullaby  Rock  Fast Paced  Hip Hop  Other
Other: ________________

Q5) What type of person do you think would be the scariest as the killer and why? ____________________________________

Q6) What is your favourite horror movie of all time?
__________________________________________________


Q7) If you could have anything you could add to a horror what would it be? ________________________________________

Ideas from the previous 'Product Research' post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVcJ9sAqqY
From the above link we are looking to incorporate the voices heard in the background. We will use a strange voice for the horror figure and a voice sounding senior for the authorative role. The slide transitions are quick flashy cuts which are good for building tension. We see viewings of newspaper cut-outs of killings at 36 seconds which Adam and I feel we should incorporate. Fast paced music that quiets when speaking also helps to build tension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlNH1c9XBU
The man goes mad and then we flash back to his history. During the trailer at 45seconds we see flashes of words that are relavent to the footage. A way of us adapting this idea is doing the same but with famous quotations. There is hardly any music in fast paced action then when taking a step back looking distant. Goes to more of a harmonic music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwcg18UduKg
Adam and I would like to include the lullaby music from this trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdY3_vLc2k
This link has a weapon, wheel brace, that is used throughout as the weapon that killed someone and then the weapon used by the person killed to kill others.


Questionnaire
To find out what the audience will want to watch Adam and I have created a questionnaire which will be on our posting. We have decided to target the 18-25 year old audience as this age group has been proven to be the most likely to attend the cinema. As we are hopefully going to be producing this for the cinema then it would be sensible to get the ideas from people of this age group.

Product Research

First Youtube Links

These are the first Youtube links that we have found to use for ideas.
The genre that we are going to do is Horror/Thriller.
Me and my partner Adam Rustom agreed that filming a Horror would have most exciting prospects. A Horror would allow us to use different costumes, use darker locations and use any special effects that could be needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVcJ9sAqqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlNH1c9XBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwcg18UduKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBcoo8i33L0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdY3_vLc2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qacXgLYhi0

Things we would not include from these videos:

·        Scary killing at the start

·        There is no background

·        Flying shot (looking from helicopter)

·        Public field game – lots of extras

·        Too long between each shot

·        The use of computers in our movie

·        Ghostly dead people

·        Partying teenagers

Specification

    Due to working with Adam Rustom last year and knowing he has quite a few strengths I asked him to partner me in making this film. These are discussed in the comments section.
    The two bold bullets points below are the two that we will pursue. This decision was a toss up between this and making a music video. We felt that both of these would stretch our filming and scripting skills added to the fact that we had already made a film production in the previous year for our coursework. The only problem with making a music video was the lack of original music that we have to hand and the problem with acquiring some.

This is the part of the specification that I have decided to follow:
Specification
A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options:

• a website homepage for the film;
• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;
• a poster for the film.

Ancillary Choices
Website homepage - no real knowledge of HTML, hard to maintain
Film Magazine front cover - doesn't require huge computer knowledge of programs, easy to research good ones, easier to keep a common theme between main tasks and ancillary tasks
Poster for the film - same reasons as Film Magazine front cover