Audience Questionnaire

1.What’s your favorite horror genre? (Cross your answer)

Comedy horror/Gothic horror/paranormal horror/gory horror/psychological horror

2.If a person was to be killed who wouldn’t you want to be a killed? (Cross your answer) 

Mum/Dad/baby/teenager/young adult/grandma/granddad

3. Do masks scary you? (Cross your answer)

Yes/no

4. Are you scared of clowns? (Cross your answer)

Yes/no

5. How often do you watch horror films? (Cross your answer)

Not at all/abit/quite often/all the time

6. What is your gender? 

Male/Female

7. What is your age?

14-16/17-19/20-24/25-30/30+

8.What is your occupation?

Write in the box.

9.On a scale of 0-1 how scary was the scariest horror film you watched and what was it?

Write the number and film in the box. 

10.If you was in a position to be killed, what weapon would you be most terrified of? 

Knife/machete/chain saw/other: 

Research Work

Horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying and revolting. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsion's and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Elements of a horror film include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons ,dragons , gore, torture, viscous animals, evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Horror films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality. Horror films go back as far as the onset of films themselves, over a 100 years ago. From our earliest days, we use our vivid imaginations to see ghosts in shadowy shapes, to be emotionally connected to the unknown and to fear things that are improbable. Watching a horror film gives an opening into that scary world, into an outlet for the essence of fear itself, without actually being in danger. Weird as it sounds, there's a very real thrill and fun factor in being scared or watching disturbing, horrific images.

Course Introduction.

For A2, the aim at the end of the course is to produce a 5 Minute Horror film with an advertising poster.