2. Which gender would you
prefer the protagonist to be?
Male ☐
Gender of Protagonist
Female ☐
Male
Female
3. Protagonist
The majority of the people that we questioned
said that the wished for a female
protagonist, although this is a slight problem for
us due to the fact that everyone in our group is
male. We will have to make the male character’s
role convincing in order to sustain a realistic
character in terms of the horror genre.
4. What setting would you most like to
see in the opening sequence?
Forest ☐
Seaside ☐
Setting of Opening Sequence
Urban City ☐
Isolated Fields ☐
Woods
School ☐
Seaside
Urban City
Isolated Field
School
5. Setting
We will be filming in the woods and we had this
idea because it would be easier to convey the
ideological and conventional themes of horror –
it also enables us to connote the isolation in the
protagonist. The woods are an easy setting for
us to use, and we can use this without any
problems.
6. At what time of the day would you prefer a horror
opening sequence to be set?
Daytime ☐
Night ☐
Combination of Both ☐
Time of Day for Sequence
Daytime
Night
Combination
of Both
7. Time of Day
We have decided that we will use a mixture of
daytime and night time because they will enable
to us to convey different feelings in the
ideological theme of horror. Darkness
semantically relates to evil, whereas light relates
to aspects of good, hence showing binary
oppositions with the change in day.
8. Would you prefer an individual or
group antagonist?
Individual ☐
Antagonist
Group ☐
Individual
Group
9. Individual
We will stick to our idea of using an alone
antagonist, this will enable us to show isolation
further in our opening sequence, as a
mysterious antagonist will depict fear.
10. Do you use Web 2.0 (Facebook, Twitter or
other forms of online social media)?
Yes ☐
Web 2.0
No ☐
Yes
No
11. Web 2.0
A large percentage of people use Web 2.0 tools
like Facebook and Twitter which is what we
predicted as we can market our product to a lot
our product to a variety of people, as we found
out from our audience profiling research.
12. What age restriction would you
rather the film had?
Universal ☐
Parental Guidance ☐
Age Certificate
12A ☐
12 ☐
15 ☐
Universal
18 ☐
PG
12A
12
15
18
13. Certificate
Our questionnaire showed us that we should
choose our opening sequence to have a 15
certificate, this is because from previous
research we have seen that 15 year olds fit into
our audience profiling because they are
interested in the ideas of disequilibrium of
horror films – so these results have been
effective for us.
