Research on character and weapons (mariama)

                        CHARACTER PERSONALITY PROFILE

JIGSAW:We took a more closer look at the character of Jigsaw, and found that he was not pychically involved in the  murders of his victims his methods of killing his victims we different for other phyichological  horror chacters Jigsaw himself thoes not hold weapons unlike the charcter of jason in Friday the thirteen. Jigsaw methods would have been difficult to attempt to reconstruct and time consuming.

FREDDY KRUEGER: Krueger from the film 'nightmare on elm street' is an undead man,  who can attack his victims from within their own dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, red and dark green striped sweater,black top hat, and his trademark metal-clawed and  brown leather glove. 

MIKE MYERS:Myers  from the film ' Halloween' is a man who is seeking revenge on the people who placed him in the mental institution after he killed his sister as a child, we will notice him from his, janitor like overalls, and has a long kitchen butcher knife, throught out the film we do not see his face as he is constantly wearing a mask.

HANNAIBAL LECTOR:Hannaibal from 'the film 'the silence of the lamb' is a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is described as being small and sleek, and with  strength in his arms. Hannibal's weapon is his trademark teeths which he takes bites out of people with, so is seen wearing a dog mask to prevent him from biting.

Research storyline (mariama)

                  STORYLINE RESEARCH 


We as a group went home and watched some psychological horror films, such as Halloween (2007), we paid attention to the storyline, In 'Saw 1and 2 ', 'Nightmare on elm street'we saw that most psychological horror follow a contempoary storyline of revenge. In Halloween Mike Myers aims to punish thoese who put him in the mental institutions whilst in Saw the charcter of Jigsaw aimed to punish thoese who do wrong in society.

We really liked the concept of punishing wrong doers in society but at the same time we wanted to combinded the concept of revenge. so combined both people seeking out revenge, and atempting to teach them that revenge is not the way, we felt as a group would be a good concept .Hinting as to why our storyline is about people seeking revenge for being kicked out of college and then getting punished for their wrong doings.

We also watched a comedy Horror called The Janitor (2003), which is about a janitor who faces daily disrespect and abuse from his co-workers so he sets of to kill them

Since we already had a school building, we thought of basing our storyline around the college.

Audience Research (mariama)

                                               QUESTION 1,2 AND 3

1)  What gender are you?                                                                   Male Female   Prefer not to say

  

2) How old are you? Above 30   24-29   18-23   12-17

  

3)  What is your ethnicity? White    Black   Mexican   Asian   Other (Please Specify):

  

We asked questions 1-3 because we wanted to find a target audience we could aim our teaser trailer at .the results shows us how many male and female audience answered our questionnaire how old they are and their enthnicity this was important to us,as it helps us to target our teaser trailer to a specific target audinece. Our target audience is  Black 19-23 male.

Audience Research (mariama)

QUESTION 4 AND 5 4) DO YOU GO TO THE CINEMAS? YES    NO

5)  How often do you attend the cinemas in one year? more than 20 times a year   15-20 times a year    9-14 times a year   3-8 times a year    less than 3 times year

 We asked questions 4-5 because we wanted to know how many people attended cinemas as most teaser trailers are first seen in the adverts at the cinemas.The results show that 37 out of the 40 audiences i asked attended cinemas and 29 of them attened cinemas more that 9 times a year.

Audience Research (mariama)

QUESTION 6,7,8,9 AND 10 6)  What is your favourite genre you enjoy watching? Romance    Horror   Science-fiction   Drama    Comedy Other (Please Specify):

  

7) Do you enjoy watching Horror films? Yes   No

  

8)  What is your favourite type of horror genre?  Psychological Horror Supernatural  Horror  Dark Fantasy  Horror Gothic Horror Other (Please Specify):

    

9)  Out of your list below which of these horror films have you watched? Saw ( any of the Saw series)   Final Destination (any of the destination series)   Drag me to hell   Freddy vs. Jason   All the above Other (Please Specify):      We asked questions 6-9 because we wanted to see if our target audience is interested in watching Horror and what types of horror films they have seen. the results show that 16 people choose the horror genre as there favourite genre and 28 people enjoy watching horror movies.  question 8 showed us that 13 people preferred psychological horror, that was very important as it allowed us to build our storyline based on our audience research. in question 9 we find that 29 out of the 40 audience members asked have watched the above horror films.

Audience Research (mariama)

QUESTION 10-16 10) Which one of these story lines sound like a good storyline for a horror film? a) a demented teacher who goes on a rampage around college   b) an ex soldier looking for revenge on the soldiers who abandon him on the battle field    c) an escape psychopath looking to seek revenge on the people who put him in the asylum

  

11) What type of setting do would you prefer your Horror films to be based? Realistic ( i.e parks house schools)   Fictional ( i.e space, hell est.)

  

12)  What is your favourite teaser trailer from the list below?

  

Freddy vs Jason teaser trailer     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0vn6yuj4U           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcoZQUDy-Tg&feature=related              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLdegaIxGX8               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh0DwJZjz8   13) Out of the list of horror films names below what is the best one demented    the whispering    the white board   blackout   teach me to hell

  

14) Do you like teaser trailers that use a particular colour scheme? Yes No  Don not mind 15) What colour scheme would like to see in our horror teaser trailer? Green Blue Red   Black   Yellow  Purple Other (Please Specify):      16) In horror films what gender would you prefer the victims to be? Male    Female   We asked questions 10-16 because we wanted to find out from the audience what out teaser trailer should consist of  so that we create a teaser trailer our target audience would be eager to watch.  The results of question 10 showed that our target audience prefer our demented teacher storyline, this gave us an idea on what story line to go on. Question 11 us that more that half of our target audience preferred a realistic setting to a fictional one i.e based in school buildings rather than in a make believed spiritual place.  The results of question 13 showed us that most people enjoyed the Freddy v Jason teaser trailer, this allowed us to look into reasons why they may have liked the teaser trailer. Question 14 was important because we as a group wanted to know if it was important to use a colour scheme/filter for our trailer as such film trailers like paranormal activities 2 they used a blue filter to show night time on the CCTV like camera, however most people did not mind if a filter was used or not, so we did not have to restrict ourselves.  Question 15 was just to see if people were to want a colour scheme/filter what colour would they want to see, most choose red. For question 16 we wanted to see who our target audience would like to see as a victim, over 25 of our target audience would like to a female victim.