Audience Research For Main Task (''Annette'')

For our main task we chose to to have a horror themed film with a murder mystery twist. The main reason we chose it was because of the results from our audience research. I asked 10 people in my questionnaire.

8/10 said they liked horror movies while the other two said they prefer comedy.

6/10 said they liked the idea of a mass murderer and 4/10 said they liked murder mystery.

As the majority said they preferred horror, we decided to do that since it suits our target audience (aged 18- 40). Mass murderer type character is also interesting to do and develop so that is another reason why we chose that.

Also I asked 14 people aged between 18 and 41:

'Whats your favourite genre of film?'  3 said action, 2 said thriller, 5 said comedy and 4 said horror.

'Why do you watch a film?'  6 said because people have talked about it, 5 said because the trailer makes it look good, 2 said they had an interest in the topic of the film and 1 person said they did so because it's got their favourite or famous actors in it.

'Would a film based on current affairs or historical events would put you off from watching it?' 1 said that it would put them off whereas the other 13 said that it wouldn't put them off.

'Would a film with controversial events put you off from watching it?' 1 said that it would and 13 said that it wouldn't.

'What type of horror film character do you prefer?' 4 said that they prefer The Romanian sex traffickers from 'Taken', 3 said they would prefer a Joseph Fritzl type character, 2 said they would prefer a Christian cult type character from 'Red State', 5 said they would prefer a Jigsaw type character from the 'Saw' films.

What we plan on doing with the audience research: The reason I asked what horror movie character they preferred was because we plan on doing a horror movie for our coursework. The murderer will be a mix of The Romanians from 'Taken' and Joseph Fritzl in the sense of the rape scenes that happen later in the storyline and so I was interested in knowing if people even considered those sorts of characters in horror films. I asked if controversial events put them off from watching it since our storyline is quite edgy and unconventional, also some films have controversial events in films and so I was interested in knowing if these films were more watched than uncontroversial films. The current affairs issue question was asked just out of interest because our film is based on the real story of the Dale Farm eviction.