Individual Research

To get audience research, I have individually found out what people expect to have in a horror genre and what age ranges, aspects are appropriate. I have done this through social media and online research.

Through my online research I found this website https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201410/the-top-ten-things-make-horror-movies-scary that allowed me to see what elements of horror films scare you and why.

• This can therefore allow us to interpret some of these factors into our opening sequence, to create a sense of threat from a unknown presence or to make the scene flow and get the important sense of a horror genre.

Another piece of research that I did was to ask my class individually whether they like horror films or not. From this I got 95% response saying that they do like them and 5% do not. This was important to know whether people around 16-17 like horror genres and therefore can make it a certain standard to our film and decide whether this will be our rating or to have it lower such as a 12.