Questionnaire Analysis.

I completed my 12 questionnaires on 15-30 years olds of a random sample of men and women but most of the were male (8 male and 4 female), the reason why I have done more males is because I want my target audience to be mostly males.

My second question - 'What type of music would you expect in the opening sequence of a horror film?'

As you can see from my graph none of my participants chose upbeat. This is clear and obvious to the audience that in a horror film you would not get upbeat music. Most of my participants chose eerie. This is good because my music fits into the eerie sound so it fits into how I would want my target audience to view the music.

For question three - 'What mood do you think should be portrayed in the opening sequence?' eight of my participants answered tense/suspense and the rest of them answered scary. This shows me what mood I should try and create to make sure that it fits in with my target audience views. I think my be a little difficult as trying to make the mood like this could make it seem more like a trailer which I am going to have to try and avoid. 

This graph shows where people would expect to see the film titles.

From this graph you can see that the majority of people said that they thought the titles would go in between different shots (appearing on a black background). This is good, as I thought this would fit in better with horror conventions rather then over the top of shots which is a more social realism convention and I also don't have to change my ideas as my target audience had the same views as me.

Question six and seven - 'What age would you expect the main character in the horror to be?' and 'For a horror, would you expect the main character to be male or female?'.  For these questions 9 participants all answered that they thought it would be a young female character. The rest of the 3 participants answered that they thought it would be a middle age man. I think that this question might have confused that 3 participants as they could have thought I meant the main character was the killer, in that case it is more likely to me a middle aged man but for what I meant it doesn't fit in with what I am going to do. However, the majority of my participants answered what I hoped.

This graph shows where people think the opening sequence should be set.

As you can see, this question gave a variety of mixed views but most of the participants answered in a house. As I have decided to use this location it may be seen as slightly typical but as it fits in with what my target audience would expect I am going to keep it the same. 

This graph shows what people find most interesting about horror films.

As you can see from this graph most of my participants thought that not knowing what will happen most interesting about horrors. This shows that in my opening sequence I shouldn't give too much away and also make it something that they don't expect as that was the second highest. As it is only the opening sequence to much shouldn't be given away anyway so hopefully that will fit in with their views but for the 'something you don't expect' may be quite difficult as a lot of horror films can be seen as typical and it can be quite hard to make a horror film unique.