Research: Analysis of Audience Survey

From the survey I have conducted I have found out a number of things about an audience's perceptions and expectations on horror films as well as some personal preferences.

Perceptions

This graph shows me that the perceptions of males and females on horror films is different. It shows that most males neither love or hate horror films, however based on my results it suggests more males really don't like horror films than females. When looking at the results of the female respondents it shows more females really liking horror films.
A question that lead on from this was 'Based on the question above, why do you feel this way about horror films?' which gave me some qualitative data which meant I could get more detail from respondents and try to understand the perceptions of the audience fully. I gained some information from this by taking commonly occurring words and found that negative perceptions about horror films was due to them being boring, typical, predictable, not enjoyable and uninteresting. The reasons behind positive perceptions were that they're entertaining and interesting,  the tension, adrenaline, other peoples reactions being funny and in general respondents liking being scared or made to jump.

Preferences

This pie chart shows that over half (52.6%) prefer to see serial killers in horror films, zombies were second in favour and ghosts were third, this includes 'the unknown'. Therefore we can conclude that modern audiences expect a good horror film to have either serial killers, zombies or ghosts in.

I have print screened some of my results from three questions showing audiences preferences on where, who and when they watch horror films. It shows me that a large proportion of audiences (50% based on my respondents) prefer to watch a horror film in a cinema. Also it shows 95% of people prefer to watch a horror film with friends, only one person from my results answered that they prefer to watch them on there own. Finally from question 8, I can see that most people watch horror films monthly if they ever.

Above are all of the films that appeared in my questionnaire when respondents were asked what their favourite horror film was. The one that came up the most frequently (3 times) was Saw, no specific one was given which I think could be because of how well known the films are. The second most frequent was Sinister (2 times) which I believe was because it is a new release out in cinemas now.

Expectations

From the open question 'What is your favourite thing about horror films?' I have transformed it from qualitative into quantitative data therefore being able to create the pie chart above. From this I can see that the two favourite expected things in horror films are being scared and being made to jump. This is used in the majority of horror films and is what audiences expect but it also what a lot of people like about horror films as it creates tension and adrenaline. Other aspects of audiences expectations of a successful horror film are an interesting plot and special effects.

Trip: London IMAX and Film Museum

Yesterday, the 24th of October we went on a trip to London. We visited various places around London such as the IMAX and film museum.

First we arrived in London.

We then went to the IMAX cinema.
It has the largest cinema screen in Britain!

Then we went to the film museum.

We were shown different aspects from films.
Especially Mise-en-scene.

Research: Audience Survey

I am trying to find out the perceptions and expectations of an audience in relation to horror films.

To research this I have set up a survey which can be found by clicking here.

Research: Horror History

I have compiled a timeline on the history of horror films which you can find here. I think this is a good way to display my research as it is easy to follow, full of media and interesting.

Main Task: Introduction

Our main task will be the titles and opening of a new teen horror film for a duration of two minutes. It is important that all of the video and audio material that we use is original and produced by ourselves. However there is an exception of using music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

Preliminary Task: Evaluation

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Preliminary Task: Final Edit

DENCH Films have now completed the Preliminary Task. Below is the final video we have produced.

Preliminary Task: Post-Production

The following screenshots are to show how we carried out post-production and the editing we did after filming.

We had to import the clips we had filmed into iMovie. To do so, open up iMovie, go to 'File' then hover the mouse over 'Import' and click 'Movies'

Next find where you're clips are placed. We placed our clips in a folder on the desktop as this makes the process more straight forward.

The first issue that we came across was that we filmed all of our clips in portrait rather than landscape. This meant that our footage became stretched and basically looked awful.

Here is an example of a clip that we filmed in portrait. As you can see our actor appears very large and overall it doesn't look at all professional.

Therefore we made the decision to completely re-film but making sure we filmed in landscape this time! Also we renamed all of the clips so its easier to know which is which.

This is our final edit. We have added different sounds on top of different clips (we needed to mute some of the clips as they interfered with the sound added in) and slowed some clips down to make it more intense in certain parts.

How To Embed A Powerpoint

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How To Embed A YouTube Video

First select the video you wish to embed. Then click 'Share' underneath the video.

 

After that Facebook, Twitter and Google+ icons should appear. Click more and the Blogger icon should also appear, click on that.

Next a new window should appear with the video embedded in HTML (rather than in compose) in a new post ready to publish to your blog.

A YouTube video has now been successfully published onto your blog! Ta-Dah!

Here is an Example