Ready or Not Movie (Official Video)

Audience Profile

After doing the audience research survey, it was simple how to work out the audience we should aim our film at. Majority of our responses we received were from people ages 12 to 19 so our film has been made to aim towards teenagers, we planned to aim it at teenagers anyway. We would aim our movie to be rated 15 so then it would fit in the average age by people who gave us the responses. Supernatural horrors was chosen as a favourite sub-genre of horror 10 out of 11 times which was a perfect response as we had decided to use the idea of 'haunting' as our film. With the age rating of 15 we can easily make a super natural horror, like paranormal activity and insidious. The typical 'work status' would be a student maybe with a part-time job.

Institutional Research

Blumhouse Productions - Blumhouse Productions was found by a man named Jason Blum and he runs the productions as well. Blumhouse produce low budget movies from the horror genre such as Insidious, Paranormal Activity and Sinister.
Blumhouse got high profitable credits with Paranormal Activity which was made for $15 000. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and grossed over $193 million worldwide.

Films created by Blumhouse were films such as:

Paranormal Activity 1,2,3,4 & 5 & the marked ones
The Purge
Sinister
Insidious: Chapter 2

New Line Cinemas - This production company is often referred to New Line Cinema and also New Line Film, it is an American film studio. It was founded in the late 1960s by a man named Robert Shaye who was a film distributer, later becoming an independent film studio. New Line Cinema's most grossed film is 'Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King'.

Films created by New Line Cinema were films such as:

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3

Twisted Pictures - Twisted Pictures is an American production company, mainly creating films of the horror genre. They are best known for producing the Saw film series. The company went on to produce six sequels of the Saw films. The company was founded in 2004 by Evolution Entertainment's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Gregg Hoffman. In June 2007, the company formed a joint venue with RKO pictures to remake four films out of the RKO library, these remakes include: Five come back, I Walked with a Zombie, The Body Snatcher and Bedlam.

Films created by Twisted Pictures include:

Saw 1,2,3,4,5,6 & 3D
Mothers Day
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D
Dead Silence
The Tortured

Inspirational/Creative Opening Sequences

I like these opening titles because I like how it gives you an idea at the beginning of them, but then afterwards when it is showing everyones names a part of the titles drift off so it looks like their souls are leaving their bodies which is what this film is about. I find the music in this to be very chilling and scary which I think is really good because it is giving the audience an idea about how scary, jumpy and chilling this film will be. At the beginning of the titles it shows you a young boy asleep and the music is quite chilling yet quite and calm. However, then the camera moves around the house and moves towards this old woman dressed in black holding a candle and the music begins to get louder then when the camera is completely zoomed up to the woman the music stops while the woman is fading then in big red letters the name of the movie (Insidious) pops up and the music starts again and it is really loud which would make the audience jump. It then goes back to calm yet scary. 




I like these opening credits because I think they are very dramatic. The clips that are on the credits give the audience a little idea about what the film is about in a nutshell, and it would make the audience want to watch it so they can understand more about the whole concept of the movie. 

Audience Research

We created a questionnaire to find out more information about the general film audience. We are making a horror film so we set our questions around the horror genre so we can see how the audience would respond to our genre. We made the questionnaire and then put it up on our blogs and then asked friends to do it over twitter. We got 19 responses from these questions:

1) Are you male or female?

2) How old are you?

3) What do you do for a living?

4) How often do you go to the cinema?

5) What time of the day are you most likely to watch films?

6) Who do you usually watch them with?

7) What genre of films do you like? (options given)

8) What is your favourite genre?

9) Which subgenre of horror do you like? (options given)

10) Which of these subgenres do you prefer?

11) What are some of your favourite horror movies? Why?

The majority of people responding were 12-19 who were females. Everyone stated that they are in full time education and 10 people said that they are most likely to watch films with friends along with everyone saying they usually watch films in the evening. Watching horror films in the evening is a better atmosphere because it is in the dark. Also, most of the people responding said they go to the cinema every few weeks.

The horror genre appeared 11 out of 16 of the responses, we also received horror as the favourite genre for 7 of them. The sub genre 'Super Natural' (like our horror film) was chosen 10 times for the favourite sub genre question. I thought this was a good response because our movie is that sub genre so I think those people who chose it would be intrigued to know what it is like. 

We had a quite varied range of answers for the question asking about their favourite horror film, the most common answers were The Conjuring and Insidious. They are the films they always have 'something wrong with the house' which is like our film. The other most popular answer was Scream.

Genre Analysis

The killer in horror films look the same almost all the time. For example, they are always dark and mysterious and majority of them are always wearing masks. In films like, 'Halloween', 'Scream' and 'Friday the 13th' are just some of the horror movies that include knives as a murder weapon. Most other films include different weapons such as a chainsaw (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Other films don't even use weapons, for example in 'The Conjuring' doesn't incluse any weapons, also you don't see anyone die, they tell you about people dying but you don't in fact see people getting killed. In other films such as 'Final Destination' it involves many different deaths, for example, 2 people die in a roller coaster crash.  

Most horror films are set in an old fashioned house, which always looks rather spooky. Films like 'Friday the 13th' and 'Cabin in the Woods' are set in the middle of the woods and in a cabin. However, you get some movies that are in houses that are more modern than you would expect, for example 'Insidious' and 'Sinister' are set in modern houses, this could suggest that not all horror movies need to be set in a mysterious house. Other horror films are not even set in houses, for example some horror films such as 'Grave Encounters' is set in an old asylum this is showing all places can be scary. 

The majority of horror films relate to each other. For example, most of the time it is always about paranormal activity around their house, or a killer on the lose. Majority of horror films include teenagers or groups of teenagers and they stumble across a killer or they are in a haunted house. Horror movies will always include more than one teenager\adult that come across a mysterious house or a killer and most will include police, or ghost hunters.

I think the most common theme in horror movies would be deaths, I think they use death a lot because it scares people the most. The other common theme I think would be paranormal, I think its common because it entertains the audience because of it being jumpy. It's a good thing that is actually scares the audience because then it is a successful horror film.

The structure of horror films are quite similar. The always tend to start off slow and letting the audience know about all the characters and the surroundings. A little bit into the movie they will notice some kind of problem for example, in 'Insidious' a little boy doesn't wake up and doctors don't know what it is, when actually he is lost in another world. Some horror films such as 'The Conjuring' uses flashbacks, I think they use flashbacks because it makes the films more dramatic. In 'The Conjuring' it shows the two ghost hunters lives and introduces you to a doll called Annabelle which is based on a true story.

Not many horror films tend to use actual music, they often use just sounds which are used in the jumpy parts of the films because it will make the audience jump twice as much as they would to if there wasn't any sound. In films like 'Sinister' and 'Insidious' it is all silent but then when the demon comes on the screen it plays a loud bang which is giving it effect. The sounds are very hard to shock the audience.

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