Hunter Productions Research

Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7O8_kWeOc

This soundtrack will be used as our non-diegetic sound throughout our opening. Ring a Rosie is a well known nursery rhyme. The creepy version will be contrapuntal to the innocence typically associated with this song. This track has an eerie tone, which could make the audience feel uncomfortable and on edge. We may adjust the sound so that it links in with our main character and sounds more like a little girl is singing it.

BBFC 15 Certificate

After some deliberation, for our production, The Woods, we decided to give it a BBFC age rating of 15 and over. This deemed appropriate as our film will contain some blood and gore. However during our opening none of this will appear; keeping the audience interested.

Missing Poster: Media Convergence

In order for the group and I to create a hype about our production we released a wanted poster of the main character. This will entice our audience to watch our film as it will create curiosity and enthusiasm throughout our audience. This is an example of media convergence as we published the poster on social medias; therefore promoting our film on a different platform of media. Our inspiration was the hype that was created around "The Blaire Witch Project" from their release of wanted posters for their protagonists. As they are also an independent film company, we're hoping our success will mirror theirs due to the similar advertisement concepts.

Character Make-Up Inspiration

The main character of our production is going to be played by a 12 year old girl who is 'posessed'. The makeup we choose has to portray the evilness within our character; it also needs to look realistic and be reasonably easy as we haven't got the tools and products for a professional look.

The bottom right photo consists of heavy blood around the mouth and eyes; however after precise research, we found that all possessed characters that take place in horror films don't have blood on them.

The top right photo, consists of scratches on the face. As our production is just the opening of the film, we don't want to give away anything that may lead to plot giveaways. We will not be basing our makeup based on this picture as we want to keep the audience in the darkness as to what has/will happen to the character.

We decided to use the bottom left photo to base our makeup inspiration around.

Graph and Chart Analysis

Some of our results may be biased as the group and I were limited to the variety and amount of people we could ask.

     

This chart shows that the majority of the people that we asked were ages ranging from 16 to 18. From this we decided that we would aim our production at 16-18 year olds.

    

We know from this graph that the majority of our audience is going to be female, therefore we shall aim our production at a feminine audience.

  

 
From this graph, the group and I have decided to have a rating of 15. We believe this will be appropriate in regard to the content of our film.


 

We picked horror for the genre of our film due to the results of this question. The pie chart clearly shows that most of our audience like horror films.



We have decided to inco-orpriate a child character within our production, as we know our audience will like it.

   

From this we know that 50% of the people that we asked watch horror films 4 to 6 times a month. we need to bare in mind that most of our audience have watched many horror films so we need to ensure that our film is unique and unlike anything our audience is likely to have seen.