Group. Audience Feedback

Q1. What is your age?

The core response we received from this question showed that the most prominent age for taking this survey was between 15 and seventeen years old, helping us to establish our target audience.

Q2. What is your gender?

The response we received on this question was not the one we were expecting, as the results show that more females responded to this survey than males. However, two entrants skipped this question so they cannot be accounted for, and there was only a difference of one person, suggesting that our target audience is mixed.

Q3. How often do you watch horror films?

The majority of people who took our survey said that they watch horror films a moderate amount. We would have liked a greater response from avid horror viewers, however the respondents’ answer’s were still noteworthy as those who view horror moderately will still be aware of horror conventions, making their feedback helpful.

Q4. What do you consider the most iconic horror location?

From our point of view, we received a very encouraging result from this question, as we found that most people considered an abandoned cabin the most iconic horror location, which is very similar to our location of a derelict caravan.

Q5. What do you consider to be the most iconic horror antagonist?

This was another encouraging result for us from a scare perspective, as the most prominent response for this question was a spirit or demon, the exact type of stock antagonist we will be using because of our supernatural sub-genre.

Q6. Name the scariest film you have seen

We had another positive result from this question, as the majority of titles that appeared scariest to our participants were supernatural horrors such as “Insidious” “The Conjuring” and “The Omen”.

Q7. Who would you consider to be an iconic horror protagonist?

We did face issues from this question. The results from our partakers show that a young girl would be considered the most iconic horror protagonist, where as we were keen to use a homeless young male as our protagonist to convey the extremities of vulnerability in society.

Q8. Which of these titles portrays the most sinister atmosphere to you?

Our contributors chose “The demons she summons” as the title portraying the most sinister atmosphere. Initially this was the title that we favoured the most as well however after discussion with our teachers, their knowledgeable  advice was that this title appeared to reveal plot too much, losing the sense of mystery that is regarded with supernatural horror. “Desolate” was the next most popular title but we felt that its meaning wasn’t one which linked closely to a horror film, although it does have elements of intrigue. Therefore we favoured “Demonica”. This is a punchy and meaningful title, revealing the name of our antagonist without revealing any plot constructions and portraying a sinister feel with the indication of a demon within the name.

Q9. Please respond to this treatment, giving your opinion on whether it will scare effectively or not. (Treatment can be found on blog as a separate post).

Over all, as with our other required response question we received a very encouraging response from our survey takers, the large majority of whom told us that they found this narrative chilling and stating that it had good potential to scare effectively. However, the issue that we did not consider when creating this question was that we had no gage to measure what people considered scary – as one person’s scary could be another’s tame rom com. We should have implemented a ranking system to give ourselves more accurate responses, but this is something we can learn for next time.