Question 4-
We chose to make our film of 15+ rating for a mixed gender audience. 15-24 year olds make up the largest proportion of UK cinema audience at 31%, according to BFI Statistical Yearbook 2014.
This means that this age demographic, stereotypically, will have more free time and therefore will have time to go to the cinema. We decided to make our film a 15+ as statistically the horror genre has more mature themes(i.e.strong violence, frequent strong language (e.g. ‘f***’), portrayals of sexual activity, strong verbal references to sex, sexual nudity, brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence, discriminatory language or behaviour, drug taking), hence our film will be better suited to an audience of at least 15 years old.
We chose to make our film of 15+ rating for a mixed gender audience. 15-24 year olds make up the largest proportion of UK cinema audience at 31%, according to BFI Statistical Yearbook 2014.
This means that this age demographic, stereotypically, will have more free time and therefore will have time to go to the cinema. We decided to make our film a 15+ as statistically the horror genre has more mature themes(i.e.strong violence, frequent strong language (e.g. ‘f***’), portrayals of sexual activity, strong verbal references to sex, sexual nudity, brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence, discriminatory language or behaviour, drug taking), hence our film will be better suited to an audience of at least 15 years old.
To back-up my thoughts towards making our film a 15+, I decided to ask my focus group a small questionnaire:
"After watching this film opening, how would you rate this as an entire film?"
Question 5-
We made a questionnaire asking a number of questions about the types of horror movie conventions that people look for, and then we asked them to watch our film opening and to give their opinions.
Before watching:
"What do you look for in a horror film"
After watching:
Before watching:
"What do you look for in a horror film"
Amy-
"I think a good suspense being built through things like music, etc,"
"I think a good suspense being built through things like music, etc,"
Rebecca-
"I look for things that occur throughout the film, like a signifier for things about to go wrong"
"I look for things that occur throughout the film, like a signifier for things about to go wrong"
Fran-
"I like having jump scares"
"I like having jump scares"
Isabella-
"I look for a complicated plot lines that take a bit of thinking to follow and understand"
"I look for a complicated plot lines that take a bit of thinking to follow and understand"
After watching:
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