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Light Green = Planning days
Red= Recce/location planning days
Yellow= Filming days
Blank = other media work
Light blue = Editing days
Dark blue = Not at college
Audience Qeustionaire analysis
Questionnaire results
Male or female?
Male 8.3
Female 91.7
This was put out on on to the internet where anyone can awnser it so it was suprising to see a large majority of female's awnseer as typically the audience for a horror film
How often do you watch see
horror films?
All the time (1-3 Weeks) 20.8%
Often 20.8%
Not much 37.5%
Rarely 20.8%
Duration
50S – 1 minute 12.5
1 minute – 1 minute 30 45.8%
1 minute 30 – 2minutes 37.5%
2 minutes 4.2%
The Majority of the people went with 1 minute -1 minute 30 which was what we ended up aiming for.
Are teddy’s/puppets scary
Terrified 20.8
A little bit 45.8
Not really 29.2
No 4.2
This qeustion refers to are trailer which includes a teddy as a prob of the antoagonist. their is no defiente awnser among the people who awnsered weather teddy's are scary or not
Favourite Horror shot
Hand held 29.2%
Fixed 33.3%
Point of view 37.5%
Other 0%
Preferred victim in a horror
film (Victims die's hero fights and survives)
Female victim male hero 12.5
Female antagonist male hero 20.8
Male victim female hero 4.2
Male victim male hero 0%
All victims no hero
62.5%
Horror film History
Horror film history
Silent era
Horror in film started with silent film made by European
films such as “The Golem”. Most of
these early films were made using what is called “German expressionism”. German
expressionism was an artistic movement that started in Germany in the 1910’s
and was a direct result of the horrors of the First World War. This type of
expressionism was isolated in Germany because of the German government banning
imported films in 1916. This lead to over 5 times as many film being made in
1918 compared to 1914.International audience started to appreciate German film
by the time of the 1920’s due to hostility towards the Germans fading. When the
international import ban was lifted Germany was part of the international film
market.
A great an
example of a film that uses German expressionism is the “Cabinet of Dr
Cagliari” (1919).
1930’s
In 1930’s the factor of Sound came into movies changing a lot
of the narrative and technical features of the film. Sound
added an extra dimension to terror, whether it is music used to build suspense
or signal the presence of a threat. With the induction of sound horror films
moved away from the horror characters of the 1920’s and the monsters such as Frankenstein
came into play. 1930’s was also a decade of mad scientists representing the
dangers in the development of science.
1940’S
In the 1940’s during the war horror exports were banned
in Britain and were only aloud in America. A lot of the horror films in America
had a wolf-like antagonist as Hitler at the time identified himself with
iconography of the legend of the wolf. Also in this time universal studio’s
created a separate unit for horror films universal was slipping from relevance as
they were in decline.
1950’s
In the 1950’s ww2 had ended and communism was on
the rise in the east. Communist greatly affected American cinema as America
feared communism this was the undertone for films such as The BLOB and Invasion
of the body snatches. Another event that happened in the 50’s was the Roswell
incident where there is speculation that a “flying saucer” landed their which
inspired many sci-fi related horror films. Also in the 50’s was the rise of television
which pushed horror movies to b movie status as people worked on meeting the challenge
met by TV.
1960’S
In the 1960’s the way people lived was
revolutionised as conservative ideology lost its power because the post war era
had passed. With this ideology diminished what previously was a perceived as
scary by the public had been completely changed. In the 1960’s Alfred Hitchcock released a
horror/thriller by the name of Psycho which was odd for this time as horror
films were usually b movies at this time which would be similar to movies that
come in the future.
1970’s
In the 1970’s society took another hit as things
started to go downhill for the decade which greatly influence horror at this
time and arguably improved it. The seventies were about deep-seated paranoia,
and the fear that the moral shift of the 1960s had created a culture of
monsters. Therefore a lot of the films were about kids such as The OMEN or the exorcist.
Another Genre they rose uo in the 70’s (and 80’s) was the slasher movie which
often involved a murderer hunting down a group of people and murdering them in gruesome
ways. Usually it was women who died the most as the slasher film is the a
indirect response the rise of feminism.
1980’S
Horror movies of the 1980s exist at the glorious
watershed when special visual effects finally caught up with the gory
imaginings of horror fans and movie makers. Technical advances in the field of
animatronics, and liquid and foam latex meant that the human frame could be transformed
as they wish. Also in the 1980’s we had horror films that ere dubbed “Video nastiest”
which were horror films that went straight to video and were often very gruesome
as for a time they were not regulated by a rating committee. An example of a
video nasty would be the Evil Dead series. A
1990’s
It can be argued that the so-called psychological
thriller took precedence over horror in the first half of the 1990s, and
indeed, many dark, disturbing films of this period describe themselves as
thriller, not horror with such films like Slaughter of the lambs which could be
argued as a thriller but borrows many horror elements. It also highlights the
rise of serial killers in films. Also in 1996 we had the introduction of
postmodernism in horror films. We also had parody’s of older horror films such
as Scream.
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