Audience Feedback

I decided to create a questionnaire and posted the results + analysis.

I decided to give the questionnaire to a equal amount of males and females to give us a fair view of each gender's opinions on horror movies.

The majority of those that filled out the questionnaire were between the ages 15 and 19. Since it is a large majority, we have taken their preferences into consideration as they would be slightly different to the other age ranges.

There is a lot of different answers to this question and this allows us to see the other styles of movies that people like other than horrors. This information is useful because it shows what elements I could add to my trailer to make it more enjoyable for our target audience.

A large percentage of the people that were asked this question chose "Sinister" as their favourite horror movie. "Sinister" is a psychological horror movie and so I could use some elements from the movie such as sound effects and cuts that will make our target audience enjoy the film trailer more.

From these results, it clearly indicates the most influential element that makes someone want to watch a horror movie is the trailer. This means that my aim for our project is to create a good, strong, high quality trailer to the best of my ability and the other two ancillary texts to support it.

I also asked if anything, what makes a horror movie less appealing to you?

The following answers are;

Gallons of blood and gore

Excessive gore overtaking story-telling

Story-lines that don’t make sense

A poor storyline

Poor ratings and reviews

From the results of this question, I will adhere to the answer such as "Story-lines that don’t make sense" and "poor styline", and adjust the narrative to appease those answers. The aim is obviously  to attract the target audience, so to create a narrative that doesn't take into account these factors would be destined to fail.

Hostel and The Possession were chosen equally with 4 votes each. From this joint vote, I can use conventions from both posters to attract the target audience.

From the results shown, you can see that the people thought the most effective feature in a movie trailer is the sound track. This shows me that I should add and focus on the soundtrack as the important element of my trailer as it will draw in the target audience.