questionnaire results

To make a effective opening, we asked the target audience what they would find attractive in the begining 2 mins of a horror film. We decided to give our questionnaires about our opening film to our target audience (15) We gave our questonnaires out at the local school and shopping centre to get a wider population to genralise the results. We asked a variation of questions in the questionnaire instead of just closed questions so we can analyse the data in depth and find out real what the target audience want. We asked a variety of questions - open/close questions, ranking scale and rate the setting out of 10. We stratigicaly choose our questions in order to help us when it comes to making our openening to a film; we only asked questions that would be help to us so no time of ours, or theirs, was wasted, and also made sure none of the questions were insulting our hurtfull to the public.













































Results- We found that

• everybody thinks music is needed and collects more suspense throught the film.
• dolls are scary when used in horror ( which with our first film we used a killer dolls)
• murders make a film more scary ( with our second film we have a killer in the house after the baby sitter and the doll in the first one is going to kill someone)
• dark areas are more scary
• it doesnt make a difference wether the famous actor was in the first 2mins of the horror

hostel-analsye of opening film

Hostel
Genre: Horror
Director: Eli Roth
18

Letter box effect, seeing throught his eye- dark gloomy room.
close up in a man dressed as a doctor
screaming and panting breath
SCREENGEMS- Liongate films
actors names in blood writting
rain dripping, whiserling in the background
actors names in bold white writting
dirty foam dripping down a tiled wall
close up on water falling into a puddle
still whisting
close up on bloody sissors, then blood washing down the drain
drain gurgling sound
loud sound of steel door banging shut
hotel sign that says HOSTEL upside down in blue neon writting
three guys walking out of the hostel- the relashonship between the three guys is friends
loud upbeat music, drums beating pace dancie pase.
dialoge between the boys -"did we come all this way to smoke pot?"
close up on guy smoking
close up on women
over the shoulder, on two guys smoking pot
in a cafe smoking and using bongs-"this is the best thing ever"
dance music, fast pace
moves into club, close up on womens bottom
in a club, lots of people dancing- dialoge between girls and the boys
"what you doing! do you see anyone eles who has a fanny pack"
guy taking a photo of him and a girl in a toilet
fight breaks out between one of the guys and a bloke
close up on him going to punch other bloke
bouncers chuck the three guys out- "get the hell out"

the astronauts wife and se7e's- analyse of opening film

To get a good idea of a horror we researched many horror film opening to get ideas about what happens and how the film grabs the audiences attention.

The Astronauts Wife
Genre: Horror
18

Zoom into the sun
NEW CINIMA LINE
snow falling
plane go past the window, with NEW YORK written on the side
close up on a man walking out of shop, in a gloomy dark night
first actors - johnny depp and charlize theron
two shot, man and women close up. women laying on the mans back kissing his neck
dialog between the couple
watching the television
quiet classical music playing smoothly in the background
dialoge- "come her baby, come here"
couple in bed, hugging and laughing
radio noise speaking- "evaluation pilot, lets go. 3-2-1 take off" "we've left off"
mid shot on back of women
close up on womens hand touching the window
space rocket taking off, with bright red fire flames
loud noise from roacked
zoom in on earth
women is a teacher and shes teaching her class- "what do they have in space?"
children playing and screaming - "mrs, you have a phone call?"
phone call, husband ringing from space. -dialoge between them-"so what you wearing."
close up on the women
mid shot on friend
dialoge between charlize and friend "he rang you from out of space!" "men are like car spaces"
cuts her finger with knife while watching the news,
dramatic fast pace, beating.
television reports on her husband in the rocket
news reports of husband in accident
folly effects- door bell
friend shouting- "its spencer, its spencer."
fast beat...
names flashing on the screen in bold white writting.

SEVEN- ANALYSE OF OPENING 2MINS.



Seven By David Fincher 1995
Genre: Thriller.

New line cinema production.
Scene of main character/ well known.
Close up of main character- over the shoulder into the mirror.
Isolated, mysterious character.
Dead body- characters at the crime scene, slow pan and colours dull.
Frame shot of other detective.
Low angle shot of Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman ( main characters) rainy and murky colours. Establishing genre from mise-on-scene.
Reverse tracking shot- 2 walking along.
New scene- laying in bed, foley effects going on in background.
Titles of production and actors. Pictures in between to set the genre, drawings that are scary etc.
Strobe lighting with screechy sound to set thriller genre