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Pre-Production

Our horror trailer survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TVYSXHV

How research impacted our ideas

When doing research into ideas we already planned to have our main target audience as teenagers. We decided this because as teenagers ourselves we are aware that many teenagers go to the cinema and also watch horrors. When we got our results back from the survey we found that teenagers were in fact the most likely to go to the cinema to watch a horror so this made our prediction to use teenagers as our main target audience more certain. From our survey we also found that females were more likely to watch horrors than males so we tailored the film to suit the expectations of females. We did this by making the lead actor female who also fulfilled the role as the final girl theory. We also applied stereotypical character types that are used in horrors (the athlete, the idiot, the whore, the clever one and the virgin who plays the final girl). We did this so the audience could tell that it was a horror from the start of the film. We felt that a supernatural horror best suited our audience as teenagers were the target audience for recent success of 'Paranormal Activity'. We also made sure we would use the key horror conventions

Groups Research and Planning: Group Idea

SYNOPSIS

Uncle Derek was a secretive man, keeping himself to himself and his friends and family knowing very little about his life apart from him mysteriously disappearing for a few years. When Derek was discovered dead in his house, there was no known cause of his death which concerned family members. At the low profile funeral, only a handful of family members and friends attended to pay respect to him. After the funeral, a wake was held at Derek’s house to celebrate his life. The family discovered an Ouija board hidden in a box in the living room prompting them to try and contact Derek to discover the cause of his death. They manage to contact Derek for a brief moment who tells them to stop using the Ouija board before he is cut off. After trying to contact him again they hear a scream and unexplainable events start to occur. One by one they are tortured by the spirits eventually leading to the family member’s deaths. The first to fall victim was Derek’s nephew Kurt (The Jock) closely followed by Kurt’s sister, Ella (The dumb blonde). The third person to die was Stephen (The Geek), the neighbour of Derek. Lewis (The Idiot) and Jordyn (The Virgin) try to escape but only Jordyn manages to get out alive as Lewis gets pulled back in to his death.


CHARACTERS
Derek (The Villain/Victim) – Died mysteriously as the detectives could not find a cause of death. He was a lonely, secretive man, keeping himself to himself. He lived alone in a big house and rarely left.

Kurt (The Jock) – Is a 20 year old sportsman who plays football. He is the nephew of Derek and helped organise the funeral and wake which is at Derek’s house.

Steven (The Geek) – Is a 19 year old computer analyst who is Derek’s neighbour. Steven attends the wake looking for information to try figure out how Derek died as he believes the Detectives are useless.

Ella (The Blonde) – Sister of Kurt and niece of Derek is a “dumb blonde” who is hoping to receive some money out of Derek’s will.

Lewis (The Idiot) – Lewis is the adopted brother of Steven who is the complete opposite of him. He does drugs and is unemployed and came for the free food.

Jordyn (The Final Girl) – The niece of Derek, cousin of Ella and Kurt is a sweet, virginal, innocent girl who is smart and aware of her surroundings. She is the only survivor as Lewis is pulled back into the house as they try to escape together.

The Spirits (The Villain/s) – The spirits are all of the people that have previously lived in the house who have been called through the use of the Ouija board. Their aim is to make anyone living in the house join them.

SETTINGS

The Church – Catholic plain church.
Derek’s house – Victorian house. Quiet street.

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