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.
8. 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 fianl product.
9. Survey Results
• I only got 8 responses to my survey, which is nowhere near 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.
10. 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.
11. Survey Results
The third question was asking what
their favorite 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
