Reconnaissance For Filming Location

We need a building with 4 floors and a lift for our opening sequence as well as an intercom system. I think the location I've photographed fits the criteria for our filming.

"The 4th Floor"

Lift Interior

Landing That Leads From The Lift To The Flat

Intercom System

Target Audience

We handed out a questionnaire to 20 people who we knew liked horror movies and just asked them a few questions to determine the features and plot of our opening sequence. Because our film has a ehite cast and they are the majoeiity population in the UK we've chosen white, English people. Horror movies are particularly popular among young men so we have targeted males aged 15-18 who would likely be studying at school or college.

Questionnaire

This is just a short questionnaire to determine the target audience for our upcoming horror movie we'll be filming. We would greatly appreciate if you could spare 5 minutes of your time to fill it in for us! Thanks!

           Please circle one answer for each question:

       1. What is your age?

           16-18    |   19-21    |   22-24    |   25-27     |   28-30    |    30+

       2. What is your gender?

            Male    |   Female

       3. What race are you?

           British    |   African    |   Asian    |   Eastern European    |   North American    |   South -                        American    |   Other (Please state) ….......

       4. What do you do in life?

           Working     |    Student     |    Un-employed

       5.  What sort of locations do you go to when you go out with friends?

            Bars    |     Cinemas    |    Parks    |    Restaurants    |    Other (Please State) ….......



These were our results: 

As you can see from our results that most of our target audience
 is 16-18year olds so this is who our horror movie will be aimed at

A majority of the people we questioned were also males.
This gives us another demographic for our target audience.

Also a majority of the people questioned were British.

They were also mainly students so we'll have to make sure
that students can relate to our movie so that it'll interest them.

As the majority go to the cinema the most when out with friends
this would be an ideal spot to advertise our movie if we were
distributing it.

From the majority of our results we've decided that our specified target audience is:

• 16-18 Year Old
• Males
• British/White
• Students

Further Research Into Similar Texts

I've now researched the 2010 film "Devil" seems as me and my group have a final idea. A great amount of the film itself is set in a lift which will be one of the main locations for our opening sequence so therefore I thought this would be a suitable text to research. In the movie a group of people become trapped in a lift with no one other than the devil him or herself! The film directed by John Erick Dowdle continuously keeps the audience in the dark (literally) throughout the whole movie with the clever use of blackouts within the lift. Each time the lift blacks out another member of the group dies and with the clever use of sound effects during the blackouts the audience understands exactly what happens to the victim. This would be quite a clever aspect to take on as in our opening sequence we want the killers identity to remain a mystery. So with the clever use of sound effects we can still get the full effect of the murder.

Movie advertisement for "Devil"