MHJG Survey

As further research towards our supernatural horror film opening we created a survey for members of the public to fill out about what type of opening they'd like to watch and what they would expect to see from a professional one in the cinema. We made 8 questions for them to answer and after tweeting it several times from our personal twitters and also posting it on Facebook, we managed to recieve 76 responses so we could get a clear idea from a large variety of people about what they would expect to see. These are the results we collected:

The results showed that the prefferred location for our opening would be an abandoned building, this means when considering locations we will try and find some abandoned buildings to look at and consider using them once we know what plot we want to use.

The results showed that the majority of people would prefer there to be no dialogue in our film opening. We were already considering not using dialogue as we want to make it look as professional as possible without proper actors.

The results showed that most people would want our villain to be a little girl, this means we will do more research on possession as this was an approach we were also thinking about.

The results show that most people want a build up to be used in our film opening, this means we will have to think about our plot carefully, as well as certain sounds we use and special effects to create a scary atmosphere for the audience.

The majority of people said they wanted sound and music to be a main factor featured in our film opening, this ties in with wanting our plot to be a build up. We can use the sounds we put in to our advantage to make it as scary as possible to fit the supernatural horror genre.

The results showed that the majority of people wanted one of our props to be a religious object for example a bible, we can use this in many different ways and we can now do research about different props used in supernatural horrors to see which ones are most conventional and are the most effective.

We asked people what their favourite supernatural film is, out of the options we gave the most popular one was 'The Conjuring' we also gave people the option to write a film down that wasn't featured in our options, we received 14 comments suggesting films such as 'Insidious' 'The Entity' 'The Exorcist' and a few others not related to genre.

Finally we asked whether religious elements should feature in our opening and more people said no than yes although it was quite close. This contradicts the prop question as most people said they wanted the prop to be a religious object, we are still going to be looking into religious elements going into our opening and will carry out research shown in other films to do with that.