2. Birdbox
• In brief Bird Box is a film about invisible entity's that
kill you if you look at them, and a woman and her
children run away, blindfolded, to a sanctuary where
they are safe from the entity's.
• My film is inspired by Birdbox in the way they created
a lot of tension and dramatic moments with
something you couldn’t see. I want to utilise this in my
film, but not to the extent it was done in Birdbox. The
way the film essentially deprives you of a sense to
create tension throughout the whole film whilst it
may not be a tense scene. I want to take a
similar approach to the style of sensory depreivation
sued in this film, but not take it as far, possibly just
making the setting dark so the characters cannot see
what is chasing them, instead of being completley
blind. There is a scene where the main character
mistakenly attacks a human, instead of figthing of an
entity, due to not being able to see, and I think this
could be something very interesting to draw
insparation from, especially since the shot cuts from
what the character can see to a 3rd person
perspective frequently.
4. Hush
• In breif Hush is a film about a deaf woman who
tries to survive being stalkesd by a masked killer
• Hush interested me in the same way Birdbox did,
with it being able to create a lot of tension and
dramatic feel by using sensory deprivation,
although this time its being unable to hear
instaed of see. A scene I want to take inspiration
from is the scene where the main characters
friend is getting killed outside of her hosue and
the mian character cant hear whats going on. I
really like the sense for fear this scene creates,
you as the veiwer know whats going on but the
main character is completley unaware, and this
makes you feel like the main character is
incredibly vunerable too, which adds to the
incredible sense of tension that is present
rhroughout the film.
6. Existing Posters
• I like this poster because it very
subtly uses the trees in the
background to create a skull face in
the background of the picture. I also
like the color scheme of the poster,
with the yellow writing being a good
contrast with the black and red. I
want to use a similar color scheme
idea on my poster, with 2 main
colors and a contrasting color to
make the important text really stand
out
7. Existing Posters
• I have chosen this poster to look at
as its very minimal with only a few
colors and a fairly minimal
main design in the center on a black
background. I also like the
placement of text on the poster, as
it takes up space that would
normally be left empty. This is
something I want to look into doing
on my poster, as keeping a minimal
design without leaving empty space
is quite hard.
8. Existing Posters
• Ive chosen this poster to look into
because like the others it is a fairly
minimalist design, but there is a lot
going on in the middle of the poster.
I really like the faces in the womans
face, although I do think there is
possibly a lot going on, but I'm going
to take inspiration from it and try
and incorporate something like the
faces into my own poster
10. Survey Questions
• What attracts you to a horror film
• Whats more important in films in general
• Whats your favorite subgenre of horror
• What do you like in a horror film
• What do you dislike in a horror film
• Whats the best horror you’ve seen and why?
I have decidede to ask these questions as I think it will help me get a much more accurate idea of
what people in my target audience really want to see in a horror film, and it will really help me
when it comes to planning my final product.
11. Survey Results
• I only got 8 responses to my survey, which
is not as many as I wanted to get, but it was
enough to get an idea of what people
expected to see in my film.
In my first question, I asked what attracts you to a horror film
in the first place, which will help me narrow down what I
need to do to make my film appeal to the target audience,
the most common answers were a good trailer and how
scary the film is.
12. Survey Results
• My second question was what is more
important in a film no matter the genre,
rather than just the horror genre, whislt I
could have been more specific to the genre of
horror, I wanted to be broad incase I had to
change anything to do with the genre of the
film later on, I would still be bale to reference
this and have a good idea as to what people
thought was good.
13. Survey Results
• The third question was asking what their
favourite sub-genre of horror was, and it was
between slasher and comedy horror, this
helps me narrow down the ideas, but it
clashes with my initial idea as it was going to
be a found footage film
14. Survey Results
• I left this question more open instead of
using multi choice, as I wanted to find out
some more in depth info into what people
actually liked to see in a horror film. The
replies were quite broad but most of them
could be linked back to the general area
of suspense/thrill/mystery. This does make it
easier for me in production as I now know if I
stick to this area I will please the majority of
my target audience.
16. Survey Results
• I left this question more open aswell, as it
needed to be. Although I only got a few
serious responses it was enoguh to give me
an idea of the genres and styles of my
target audiences favorite horror films.
