The Questionnaire

Questionnaire:

1.What gender are you?

2. How old are you?

3. How many horror films have you watched this year at the cinema?

4.What is your favourite horror film?

5. How much would you rate this film out of 10? (10 being the best)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

6. Who is your favourite horror villain?

7. What scare tactics in this film did you find effective?

8. Where do you prefer the setting of the film to be?

9. What type of horror film do you prefer?

• Vampire
• Serial killer
• Zombie
• Monster
• Alien
• Other

10. What is your favourite murder weapons in horror films?

• Knife
• Gun
• Chainsaw
• Disease
• Bite
• Other

Questionnaire results

1. Eight Females. One Male.

2. Five 16year old.

Two 17year old

One 19year old

One 50year old

One 22year old.

3.

• 2
• 1
• None
• 3
• 5
• 1
• 1
• 7
• None
• 1

4.

• Paranormal activity
• Alien
• Jeepers Creepers. x2
• Haunting in Connecticut
• One missed call
• The unborn
• The Grudge
• Orphan
• Drag me to hell

5.

• 8
• 8
• 7 and 5
• 8
• 7
• 8
• 7
• 9
• 8

6.

• Hannibal Lecter
• Hollow man
• Jigsaw
• Jason x2
• Freddie
• The old lady from drag me to hell
• Michael Myers
• Doesn't have one x2

7.

• Sudden movements with loud music
• Silence, sudden loud noise effects.
• Jumping scarecrow.
• Music, sound effects, quick camera movement.
• suspense, music.
• Thing that make you jump.
• Sound effects.
• Surprise use of everyday objects.
• The way in which people are made invisible.
• Sound and camera shots.

8.

• Deserted houses/areas
• Mansion
• Outside
• Homes x3
• The woods x2
• Forest
• On the moon or in space.

9.

• Ghost/ spirits
• Alien
• Serial killer x3
• Other x3
• Monster
• Vampire
• Zombie

10.

• Knife x4
• Other
• Chainsaw x5
• Disease
• Bite

Conclusion

From these results i can conclude that this now gives more of a direction on what path to take in what to put in the clip. The answers from the audience of horror films has let me know what is favourable in horror films and what excites them, and type of characters scenes and settings are enjoyable to watch.This will help the group to now make decisions on what would be appropriate to include in the clip. The use of the feedback from the questionnaires will be very helpful.

Pitch Idea:
Cluedo

• Six teenagers are staying over at one of their houses.
• They decide to play a game of Cluedo a murder mystery game.
• As they play, one of them go off to the kitchen to get some food, whilst the rest are also being noisey around the huge mansion.
• All of them return to the game except for one.
• So somebody from the group goes to look for that person and finds them dead.
• They return to tell the others who are mortified and question who could have done this. They start to blame each other and get into an argument.
• They try to contact the police but can not get through onto the phone line.
• They decide to try and survive the night, until morning when the owner of the house returns.
• The rational person suggests that they all stay calm and stick together at all times.
• As the night goes on they each have to leave the main group for the toilet, food and to move around.
• They all start talking of who out of the group that they think the killer is.
• This person is found dead which means that they could not be the killer.
• Another member of the group is also noticed missing from the room and they become the victim of accusation of being the murderer.
• This person then does not return but their body cannot be found, making everybody believe that they are still in the house.
• The three remaining survivors decide to all stick together at all times, so when one of them decides they need the toilet they all go together.
• While this person is in the toilet the other two people wait outside, but they start to argue and agree to walk away from a fight and come back in five minutes to meet their friend when they come out of the toilet.
• When they return the door has been smashed up and their friends face down in the bath. They have been drowned.

Shanice Collins pitch:
Games at night.

• A teenage girl has a sleepover at her house with four friends.
• They all decide to play the Ouija board as a bit of fun.
• The bad spirits start talking to them- sending messages of death and murder.
• They say goodbye and stop playing the game, dismissing it as nonsense.
• They invite some friends over and start drinking and having a good time.
• One of the girls decides to go downstairs to get some more drink. As she tries to go back upstairs she sees something in the mirror behind her.
• The girls upstairs notice her missing from the party and one of them volunteers to go and get her.
• She finds the body.
• They then spend the rest of the night trying to survive this group of demons that are passing through their house.
• One by one they start to die off with the demon continuously appearing then disappearing.
• The girl who's house it is survives the night to tell her parents of the demons.
• When her parents return she tells them of her horror and what happened through the night.
• The police are called and when they analyse the body they decide that she killed the girls, as they were killed by knife and hitting of her body. (Head and face).
• She is arrested and her parents are left in the house alone through the night.
• They are also killed, but not by her as she was in prison. The police don't believe this mystery killing was a demon and pass it off as a mass murder, by someone else.

My Horror Pitch:

In the Graveyard

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  A group of teenagers go to a Halloween house party and get drunk


• 
  
  Then they all decide to visit a graveyard.


• 
  
  They start to vandalise the old grave stones by kicking them, throwing drinks at them etc.


• 
  
  They all start towalk away, when all of a sudden the ground starts to shake and the tombstones shatter.


• 
  
  Then zombies start to appear out of the ground walking slowly towards the teenagers with their arms out in front of them making a groaning sound.


• 
  
  The teenagers try to run away from them and hit them off, but the zombies still attack.


• 
  
  The zombies start to eat the teenagers by pulling their limbs apart and taking big bites.


• 
  
  All of the teenagers are dead except for one who survives.


• 
  
  All of the zombies return to their graves accept for one.


• 
  
  The last girl standing walks home to tell her family what had happened. She enters her house and shouts for her family but nobody answers. The television is on and she can see the back of her mother, farther and also her younger brothers head.


• 
  
  She runs in front of them to tell them what happened but only to find their throats bitten with big chunks of their neck's missing.


• 
  
  She turns to find the zombie standing in the corner of the room walking slowly towards her arms out making those grotesque groaning noises, with its arms out in front.


• She screams!

The end

I think that this pitch would make a successful horror film because it is similar to other classic horror films. The fact that my storyline contains zombies, which are also known as 'the living dead' in other films are very popular characters to have in horror films. My pitch also has blood and gore through out the story which keeps it within horrific, sticking to horror. However my storyline also has a group of teenagers as part of the main cast which i personally think would attract the teenagers as an audience for this film.