Survey Analysis

Questions about audience

What age range are you in?

The results from the second question that we got ended up telling us that out of 15 people who took the survey, 11 of them were around the age of 15-20, the survey also tells use that 3 people who took our survey were around the age of 21-25 and 1 person that took our survey was around the age of 26-35.

From the results we got from our survey, we saw that the majority of the people that took the survey ended up being around the age of 15- 20 years old which is very beneficial for us since this is the age that we mainly target at. By having most people chose 15-20 it tells us that we should not go all out on the gore in the film, but at the same time we could include blood due to people could still be around the age of 18-20.

What is your gender?

The results for the second question ended up telling us that out of the 15 people that answered the question 5 people chose female and 10 people chose male. The way this impacts our short film is that it tells us that most people in our target audience are male, which is a good thing since we were targeting people that were male anyways but we still should focus on the female audience.

What socio-economic group do you fit in to?

From seeing the results from the third question we saw that one person skipped the question only 14 people did the question The results illustrates the fact that most people are semi skilled workers, skilled manual workers and casual laborers and not that many people chose intermediate managerial and junior managerial.

This tells us that most people who answered our survey are skilled in a profession and some do not have a job, yet at the same time there are people who have job and do not get paid that much money. This does not impact our film that much when it comes to the content but when it comes to how much it is to watch since not that many people that answered the survey will have that much money to watch the film.

What kind of life style do you live?

From seeing the results of the fourth question we gathered that most of the people that took the survey are artists and we know that it refers to drawing since most of the people that took the survey are from deviant art. This doesn't really affect our idea much as because they are artists just means they will look more into depth about our idea and what is happening.

Questions about Inital Idea

What do you like most within a film?

We asked people what they like to see within a films, so we can then see what kind of things people like to see in all types of films and try and involve these points into our film. Most people liked things like jump scares, plot twists and also one person liked how creative the deaths can be within some films. This does not really effect our idea in anyway as we were already were planing on using jump scares during the deaths that we were also going to try and do in a creative way.

What would you want the killer to look like? (the scarier the better)

We had some mixed views on about what the killer should look like. But the overall theme for the killer was that he was tall, skinny and had a mask. Some people said about having his face scared but we felt that it would take too long to do that on our character, and also cost too much with make up effects. On person had also said for the killer to look like the character "Jigsaw"'s puppet from the "Saw" series, which was one of the original ideas in the first place. We had discussed this and one of our member's of the group wanted to be the killer as it was his idea, we will be sticking to our idea of having a "Jigsaw" looking characters of short and skinny but has a mask.

What do you like and dislike about our story idea? explain why

For this question we also had a mixed bag of views on the idea. Most people liked the idea and how it will play with the audience's mind. People also like how we are planing on having each death different in creative ways. Two things people disliked was how the main character pays attention to the fact that his friends are not messaging him and felt it would distract the film. They also felt that the ending could be too predictable and the film should be made carefully with lots of thought to detail so this doesn't happen. After seeing these views we decided to get rid of the fact the main character notices his friends stop messaging him. Also when planing we are going to make sure we have all the fact about the ending subtle throughout.

How many death scene do you think there should be?

We added this question we wanted to know how many death scene people thought we should have within our short film which will be about 10 minutes. The highest vote was 4 kills, which while looking at the time we is reasonable, which is why we have now created 4 characters which will die off

what is your overall opinion on the idea for our short film?

The overall view on the film was very positive and people though it is a great idea and could turn into a great film. But as like one of our previous questions people don't want the ending to be too predictable, so the filming will have to be done carefully.

Is there anything you want to see in our film? (i.e more depth into the dream side of it? more depth into their friendships ending? 

The main thing people wanted to see more of was more depth into the main character and other characters back stories to know more about them, so they can become more attached and their deaths become more meaningful. So we decided that the into scene should include parts about how they know each other and then also include about how the personality in the main characters brain is woken up.

Secondary Research Content

Source one

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Personality-disorder/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

The way that I found this source about personality disorders is that on google i looked up about different personality disorders and then found this page from the NHS about different personality disorders and the signs and symptoms for a person that may have a disorder. The information that i found within the web page was quite useful as it told me in detail about signs and symptoms of the different types of personality disorders. like how people with Antisocial personality disorder, "sees other people as vulnerable and may intimidate or bully others without remorse" and this is what we would want our killer to be like. The way that this information has developed our final idea is that it has allowed us to look at what people that have different personality disorders may feel. Which then means we can apply this to our main character/killer.

Source Two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan 

The way that i found this source was that i looked up on google about murderers who had claimed, I then looked at multiple webpages about different killers that had claimed they had multiple personalities but most where proved not to. But one person, Billy Milligan, who was shown to have different personality's. What this article shows us is a personal view on living with multiple personality's. So even though we are not going into full detail about life with multiple personality the different sources help us to peace together our character and what they will act like with these personality's inside his head. This can help us develop our idea because we can possible have links to other personality's within his mind that he is yet to know about, but the killer is the strongest personality within his brain that can take "the spot" within our guys heads. 

Source Three

https://www.dreamscloud.com/en/dream-dictionary/symbol/killing 

The way that i found this source was the same as the others. I went onto google and looked up "what does murder in dreams mean?" and i found this website called "DreamsCloud" which tells you about the meanings behind different types of dreams and about stuff that can happen in dreams. The page I found is about what murdering someone in your dream means. It tells us how murder in a dream is about hidden rage and anger for people, so your brain makes up a situation within a dream for you to play out. With this information, we can develop our idea by subtlety showing some of the reasons of why he may not like some of his friends, and some of the hidden rage he has. We can also have the killer appear in some hallucinations he has by seeing the Killer within him standing over the next person he is going to  kill next for a split second. 

Research in Competitors and Market

Under the shadow 2016

I think that there was a lot success in this film the reason is because it has won lots of awards. The reason why they may have won them could be due to the story line of the film. There must have been a lot of jump scares and lots of terrifying moment in the film. Another thing it may be is because of the director as he may have lots of experience in making horror film therefore the film may have had a success.

Below are the list of awards that they have won.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4273292/awards?ref_=tt_awd

BAFTA Awards 2017

Won
BAFTA Film Award Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Babak Anvari
Emily Leo
Lucan Toh
Oliver Roskill

Athens International Film Festival 2016

Won
Best Screenplay Competition Feature Film Awards
Babak Anvari

Won
Golden Athena Best Screenplay
Babak Anvari

BloodGuts UK Horror Awards 2016

Won
BloodGuts UK Horror Award Best Actress in an International Film
Narges Rashidi (actor)

British Independent Film Awards 2016

Won
British Independent Film Award Best Supporting Actress
Avin Manshadi
Best Screenplay
Babak Anvari
Won
Douglas Hickox Award Babak Anvari


Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2016

Won
Bucheon Choice Award Jury's Choice for Feature Film
Babak Anvari

Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2016

Won
Jury Award Best Actress - International Film
Narges Rashidi

London Critics Circle Film Awards 2017

Won
ALFS Award Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year
Babak Anvari

Montclair Film Festival (MFF) 2016

Won
Narrative Feature Competition Babak Anvari

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2016

Won
Narcisse Award Best Film
Babak Anvari

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2016

Won
Jury's Choice Award Feature Film
Babak Anvari
Haunting in a manner that owes as much to the tangible dangers of its setting

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2016

Won
New Visions Award Best Motion Picture
Babak Anvari

Viennale 2016

Won
Standard Readers' Jury Prize Babak Anvari (director)
"The specter of terror is haunting us - invisible, ungraspable.

In the trailer  of under the shadows the editing  pace of the trailer is normal at first and gets faster towards the end. It also uses montage editing throughout the whole trailer. In the 45 seconds of the trailer you can see that it is quite emotional until you see the missile which crashed into the house. After 45 second it illustrates fast pace editing and montage editing of terrify moments that happens within the film. An example was when person is punching through the ceiling which shows some camera work. This adds tension but also excitement to the trailer as it shows some creativity of different ways to scare the audience from a point of view shot.

This film, Under The Shadow 2016, theme that is used psychological theme. This is used at the time of  1:41 where it show the mum feeling scare for the child and also being scared of the fact around her surround as she feels unsettled in the home she lives. There are two moments where this film illustrates the situation which includes the mum feeling unsettled living at the home. At 1:47 it shows a shot of where the child is trying to kill the mother and that mother is being scared of her well being. Another moment was when the mother starts to look for the teddy for her child and she becomes annoyed looking for it as she can't seem to find it. This is shown at the time of during the time of 1:27 where the mother is throwing her stuff everywhere and throws the book to the ground. In the film called Under the Shadow 2016 they create linear story, the clothing that the character are wearing is normal everyday clothes. The fact that the character has a normal life would make the audience feel like that the protagonist relates to them and it makes them think that they have a normal life, until the story built into play of how their life has completely change and how unusual their life is becomes due to the spirit that is trying to take over the child. In the beginning of the trailer you can see that the first 45 seconds is based on the normal lives that the family and then after 45 seconds when the dad goes it shows how unusual it is. This create tension with the film as it make the situation clear to the audience that it is quite frightening.

The information that we have found out about this film called Under The Shadow 2016, gave us an idea of what psychological feeling that the protagonist may possess which is ruminating about losing his friend by the masked man had killed them in his dreams. In the trailer of Under the Shadow 2016 we saw a shocking moment, where a person is punching through the top part of the room from above the children and mother bedroom. This gives some ways of developing our short filming terms of killing people, we could possibly show a situation where a masked man stab a person from the bedroom from the top of the smashed ceiling.

The Autospy of Jane Doe

I believe that the film was not successful as it did not win many awards for best picture or best film, nor did this film win any Oscars of BAFTA'S. Obviously this film appeal to a niche viewer and the cast were relatively unknown. Unfortunately the plots were flimsy as a resulted had a disappointing end to the film.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2395059737?playlistId=tt3289956&ref_=tt_ov_vi

Austin Fantastic Fest 2016

Won
Best Picture Horror Features
André Øvredal

Fantastic Fest 2016

Won
Fantastic Fest Jury Award Best Picture (Horror Features)
Matt Gant (production designer)
Best Picture (Horror Features)
André Øvredal
Fred Berger
Roman Osin

Monster Fest 2016

Won
Jury Prize Best International Feature
André Øvredal

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2016

Won
Special Prize of the Jury Feature Film
André Øvredal (director)
Fred Berger (producer)
Matt Gant (production designer)
Roman Osin (director of photography)

In the trailer they use an editing technique called the Motivated to reveal the dead body which is the Jane Doe. This is used during the trailer at the time of 13-18 seconds. The first shot shows a high angle of a person with a shoe, walking, whilst it maintains a high angle the camera tilt down and illustrate the number clue six plus letter A clue. They also merely shows the dead body of the Jane Doe. The next shot shows a close up of the inspector looking at the dead body. Then the motivated cut happened at the next shot of the dead body. Another thing that this film uses is SFX to create a shocking atmosphere within the scene. This is shown throughout the time of 1:20-1:28 where there is an investigation scene which shows two people analysing the reason for the Jane Doe death and who she is. In those beginning of those seconds it is revealed that a man heard something from the radio and the shot shows of his expression. The radio is making an audio sound of a woman screaming and the next shot is a shot reverse shot of the radio and the girls. Gradually you will see the bulb from the lab burst. The SFX come from the bulb that burst in the room this creates intense as it will make the audience wonder what happened.

In the trailer of The Autospy of Jane Doe you will two victims that is involved with the investigation scene of the dead body. The first character is the boyfriend who is a perhaps a teenager that does go to high school. He is the one that is assisting the father doing the investigation of the Jane Doe. This used at the time of 0:59-1:01. The second character is the dad who is a more experience person at analysing dead bodies. The fact that they are using two character who are experience at finding about dead, it will make the audience want to know about Jane Doe as they will want to know about how they can handle the supernatural power of the Jane Doe. In the film you can tell that it goes in a linear structured storyline. It shows the beginning to the end of the film. The beginning of the trailer shows how they found the dead body, the middle part of the trailer illustrate the investigation scene of where the son is assisting the father then  bulb in the lamp burst. In the end of the trailer the intense scene of where everything is dark and creepy even the shape of the Jane Doe face’s changes.

The information that we have got about the film The Autospy of Jane Doe gave us another idea for the twist that we could include in our film. The new twist we as a group thought of is when the protagonist find out that he is the killer he commits suicide. He does this by slicing his throat. However he come back to life but he become like killer machine, a person who want to kill people and a person who does not have any remorse. I think this film has helped my film as it gave me new ideas to what I should put in our short film.

"DON'T BREATHE" 2016

This film was pretty successful because it has won two awards which is a very big deal, showing that the film has a lot of elements that make it an amazing film to watch. The reason why this film could of won these awards would be because of the interesting and unique plot that the film has that contains a lot of tension and suspense in all of the terrifying moments included that makes it an amazing film to watch and seemed like it deserved the awards that it has won.

Below is the list of awards that the film has won.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4160708/awards?ref_=tt_awd

Fright Meter Awards 2016

Won
Best Editing
Eric L. Beason
Louise Ford
Gardner Gould

Golden Schmoes Awards 2016

Won
Best Horror Movie Of The Year

In the trailer for "DON'T BREATHE" there are a lot of technical elements used that has a very big impact on the audience. An example of a technical element  would be the editing techniques used, such as at 1:00 they use fast paced editing where they are seeing if the blind man suddenly appears out of nowhere and they are seeing if he actually knows if they are actually there. By using fast paced editing it managed to capture of the tensity in the other characters faces which makes the audience tense at the same time, and will make them wonder if the blind man can actually see the characters, and by suddenly cutting to showing the blind mans standing there it could give the audience a slight jump scare by knowing the fact that he is right there and might get killed by the other characters, which makes the audience very tense and wonder what is going to happen next. Another technical element used that has a big impact on the audience would be when the way they use camera techniques in the film. An example of where they used camera techniques well would be at 0:01 where they did quick zoom in on the persons face showing how terrified they are and how big their eyes are, showing the audience that they are really scared. By doing a sudden zoom in on the characters faces it makes the audience what is actually going on and will make them wonder what they are actually scared of and would want to continue watching to see if they will see what the characters are actually scared of.

In the trailer for "DON'T BREATHE" a content element used would be when there was a couple who wants to get out of a poor area when they get the money, so the couple find out that there is this old blind man who has $300K and decided to go find out where the man lives and try to kill him so that they can take the old blind mans money so that they can leave the poor area. This is used at 0:25 where they find the old blind man and they think that he is just a normal person, this makes the audience wonder what they are going to do when they get the old blind man and gets the thought in their head if they will actually kill the old blind man or not. Another content element used in the film would be when the group of people break into the house and try to kill the old blind man. This is done at 0:44 where they break though a window and look for the old blind man, and when they find the old blind man. Following this they manage finding the old blind man and have a gun pointed at him, which makes the audience think that they are about to shoot him. Suddenly finds out that the old blind man has strong senses and ends up killing one of the people, by doing this it shocks the audience since they think that it is just a normal old man who would get killed, but it turned out to be the other way round.

From the information that we gathered from the film "DON'T BREATHE" we learnt that we could use the idea of characters being hunted down by the killer, and they will be hunted down one by one, unlike in the film they are all in the same place when they die. There are many different deaths that are used in this film, so that inspires us to make a film where all the victims die differently.

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