This questionnaire was created to get an understand of the impact horror films have on people and what they find most interesting about them. I asked a range of different age groups to get a wider range of answers. Next to some of my results I have annotated around it describing what evidence I have collected and how it can be useful during the construction of my own teaser trailer. As my target audience is 16-25, the majority of people I had asked to complete my questionnaire were within that age range. I was able to compare the difference between how younger audiences watch horror films in comparison to older audiences. I had also asked an equal amount of men and women so I could analyse the differences between how they watched horror films and the reaction it had on them.
Lucy Damon - Shreena Patel
Marilyn Roberts - Rhiannon Williams
Charlie Lee - Nihal Shariff
Tanya Riley - Maria Adegeye
'Chromosome 17'
My group and I decided on a final name for our film after looking over and discussing the other options. We decided on calling it 'Chromosome 17' as it is related to the disorder of SMS (Smiths-Magenis Syndrome) which we are trying to make aware to our audience. I came across this disorder when reading through the 'Metro' on the 16th of November. They had featured an article on a 9 year old girl called Grace Fishwick who was born with the disorder of SMS and how it has effected her family and her mentally.
SMS is a rare developmental disorder which affects an average of 1 in 25,000 individuals. It is caused by a abnormality within the chromosome 17 and causes people such as Grace to become very violent towards themselves and others.
Some symptoms include disrupted sleeping patterns, deep set eyes, full cheeks, anxiety and self-injury along with many others.
I chose to feature this disorder within our film and teaser trailer as I wanted to make our audience and others aware of some disorders which aren't common but still cause damage to many lives.
Grace Fishwick article: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/847356-meet-the-real-life-jekyll-and-hyde-girl
Above is a diagram of optional names for our film which my group and I thought would be relevant. Most of these names are symptoms and associations with Smiths-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) which is a disorder that we are portraying within our film.
- Heavy breathing - Lucy
- Hand held camera - night vision
- (Cuts to black)
Medium cuts
- Teacher talking about trailer
- Church - students walking
- Lucy saying "I don't like it"
- Outside the house - Riley "Perfect"
Fast cuts
- Charlie being zipped up
- Marilyn going into the bathroom
- Marilyn panicking
Mixture of cuts
- Church, the girls being attacked and walking through the bushes
- Lucy's hand switching on the light
- Name of Film shows
- Turns to black
- Tanya "what is that?"
- Bloody hand out of focus, moves towards the lens and the camera focuses, hand hits the screen
- "Coming Soon" is shown
- Name of production company
