Audience Questionnaire For Our Teen Horror

To research and plan the opening film sequence effectively I must demonstrate an appreciation of our potential target audience, so who is going to watch/consume your product. This could help influence your creative our process also as Im am the script and story boarder it could help me create new ideas for our opening sequence and the easiest way of doing this is to get/use ideas that are brought forward from a questionnaire - here are some suggested questions based upon asking about you're our chosen sub genre teen horror.

I would distribute the questionnaire to at least ten people of different ages and gender in order to get a different opinions. Once I have received the questionnaires back and read through the feedback I would create a table/pie chart on Microsoft excel reviewing the key themes and data I received.

Media Questionnaire.

Institutional Research

Media Institutions tend to produce certain types of films or have qualities/values associated with their brand. So for our film we need instiutions that can make the concept, strory line and genre clear. Below i have created a powerpoint on what film distributor i would use if i was going to actually distribute our film; inhumane.

Institutional Research

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Production and distribution companies

I belive that decided DNA films is the best company to produce our film as as they are an independant British Production company who make short films which corresspond with the same style as our film. Finally, I think we should use Fox searchlight Pictures as our distribution company as they are independant British distributors who distribute modern British films including '28 days later' whihch has a similar storyline to ours even though the genre is different. Also, Fox Searchlight Pictures has distributed many independent Britsh films so they may be willing to distribute ours. In addtion to this the distribution company has released many film that are "15's and 18's", this showed me that they could help us reach/ target our audience.

Film Certification Research

UK film/video classifications
Below is a image displaying all the film ratings under BBFC. this in important as if our film was produced and distributed we would need a film rating on it.

BBFC Ratings Research

Below is a word document displaying information from the british board film rating scale. I out souced this information from the website itself which is www.bbfc.co.uk after reading the website I decided to make a table of the information I found out as the group would need to put an age rating on our opening film sequence; Inhumane. British Board of Film Classification

Synopsis research - Paranormal Activity 3

Synopsis of Paranormal Activity 3

The Paranormal Activity franchise continues with this third outing from Paramount Pictures. The film is about two sisters that try to make sense of the supernatural events they experienced as children.

How can this be related to our opening sequence?

Paranormal activity is a supernatural horror and uses the concept of “home movie” to portray the story line. However in our film our group has decided to down play the elements of supernatural horror in order for it to meet its target audience of 15-16 year old teenagers and the genre of teen horror. Although Paranormal activity is one of the best known films for its elements of fantasy which is incorporated with horror, in order for our opening sequence to be a success basing our ideas around this movie would help create a wining opening sequence.

Snopsis Research - Chronicle

Snopsis Of the Movie Chronicle

Three high school friends are exploring in the woods when they come across a mysterious substance. Soon after the strange discovery, they each begin developing a unique super power and find that the best way to hone their new skills is to play around with them together. But as their personal lives get in the way, the very powers that brought them closer together may just be what inevitably destroys them.As they begin to learn their may be a darker side to having powers.

How can this relate to our opening sequence

Three high school friends are exploring in the woods when they come across a mysterious substance. Soon after the strange discovery, they each begin developing a unique super power and find that the best way to hone their new skills is to play around with them together. But as their personal lives get in the way, the very powers that brought them closer together may just be what inevitably destroys them.

Synopsis Research - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

A Synopsis of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Driving through the backwoods of Texas,on their way to a Lynard Skynard concert in Dallas five teenagers pick up a traumatized hitchhiker,who then shoots herself with a gun at the back of their van. Looking for the local authorities, the group travels through the town, meeting the locals. One by one, they are picked off by a strange man with a demented face. Realizing that they are in mortal danger, they must escape from the town from a family of cannibals and a chainsaw wielding mad man.

How does this relate to our opening sequence?

This remake of the Texas chainsaw Massacre, relates to our opening sequence in a number of ways one of which is that is is a well known teen horror that involves them escaping from a man. However in our opening sequence the teenagers will be escaping the "killer disease" that is being spread around. Although the plots may be slightly different there are many similarities between them as in both scenario's it seems there is no way out and they have to fight the impossible in order to survive what lies ahead of them. In addition to this in the trailer it has, digetic music such as a heartbeat and uses flash's of light that look like pictures, this holds the image in the audiences mind whilst absorbing the the film. We could use this in our opening sequence as it is based on cctv camera, devices such as ipods, mobiles and dv cameras. So it could connate the fact that something is going to happen.

Synopsis Research - I know what you did last summer

Synopsis of the film I know what you did last summer

It's the fourth of July and four friends Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry are celebrating along with graduation. On their way home they hit a pedestrian walking down a curved corner. They make a pact to keep it a secret in hopes of saving their futures. While dumping the body in a near by sea, the body becomes alive and tries to attach Helen. They throw him in and never return to that site. One year later, Julie returns home from college for summer break. In the mail she receives a letter stating that "I know what you did last summer." Julie freaks out and gathers up her old friends who are now separated, miserable and not speaking. They all decide to find out who saw them that fateful night and in the process of tracking the suspect down, the body count goes up.

How can this relate to our opening sequence?

"I know what you did last summer" is a typical teen horror, about four teenagers which is what our concept is based upon, although there is a different plot/story line. It is one of the best examples that follows our code/conventions. There are also subtle uses of horror which we could use in our opening sequence. Futhermore I believe that this is a prime example of what we should aspire to in order to create a worth while opening sequence.

A presentation of the sub genres of horror

Horror-sub genres.

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Other Sub-Genres of Horror

Although our group has already decided on Teen horror as our sub genre i have made a powerpoint which explains other sub genres of horror just in case we decide later on to change our inital genre. Also it expands my knowledge of the sub-genres of horror for future prefrence.

Generic Codes and Conventions of Teen Horrors

In order for our opening sequence to be a sucess me and other members of the group have to be able to understand the codes and conventions of typical teen horror films. This involves watching and identifying similar techqiues displayed in all the teen horror films. Below is a powerpoint I created that displays information I discovered after doing an internet search on google and using my own knowledge from teen horrors I have already seen.

Codes & Conventions of a Teen Horror

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The genre of our opening sequence - Teen Horror

After having a group discussion we have all decided that the best genre to make our opening sequence is teen horror as we all all teenagers ourselves and we have easy acess to teenagers due to our friends from school so it should not be too hard to find the actors and actresses to perform in our film.