Questionnaire Results

So as you can see from the video above, in which Levinia spoke about the results of the questionnaires that we carried out and the analysis, they are going to help us with what we are to include in our production, so that it is something that our target audience will want to see.
From analysing the results we know that we need to:

• we also found that having the film set mainly in the forest is something that nearly 75% of our target audience would rather have compared to a house/neighbourhood or in a derelict building. 
• more than half of the target audience said that they would prefer a female role to a male, and also by looking at examples of other films from the same genre, we discovered that the lead role is predominantly played by a female. But as there was only a slight difference between whether the target audience preferred a male or female role, we have decided to go for a male lead, as it's something different.
• although special effects, suspense and mystery, were said to be some of the most important elements of a horror film, we found that music was a bit more important to the majority of the target audience, as it helps create suspense and mystery and also helps set the mood of the entire film.
• including violence/gore is something most of the target audience wanted to see, but it has to be used in a way that prevents the film from looking over the top and tacky.
• from the results we found that the most important element of a Christmas movie is Santa, which fits in very well with our idea, as it is focused on a twisted version of the story of 'Saint Nicholas'.
• when asked about the preferrd horror sub-genre, there wasn't really one that stood out the most, as the video above shows that the target audience liked a mixture of different sub-genres. But if we did have to focus on one, it would have to be thriller, as it had a few more votes than the others, so including some elements of thriller may be something we have to think about.
• as seen from the results in the video above, most people had seen and enjoyed all of the Christmas and horror films, so to be successful with our production, it would be a good idea to use some of those films listed above as inspiration for ours.
• although we have decided on having a male playing a lead role, we may need to think about whether we should have to develop our female characters so they play a more important role.