Audience Research.

Horror - Zombies.

Horror: An overwhelming and painful feeling caused by someone frighteningly shocking, terrifying or revolting, a shuddering fear. 

  

The graph shows the different age categories and the percentage they visit the cinema. As you can see 15-24 year olds have been most likely to attend the cinema, although there has been a little decrease over the years, they still attend it more than the any other age category. Therefore this graph is relevant to my research as it links well with my target audience being the age category of 15-24 year olds.


Why do people choose to watch horror films?
People are likely to choose to watch horror films as it puts them out of their comfort zone, which creates a sense of thrill and adrenaline which people like. They build tension and create fear which scares people which they find as a form as entertainment. All horror films affect people in different ways, for example people like to go and watch zombie films as they believe that the actors in the film could survive the apocalypse, and makes them gain a connection to the actors in the film as they want them to survive. People also find zombie films humorous and funny, so they find it entertaining to go and watch. 

The usual age for a horror/ zombie target audience is between the ages of 15-25 years old

Shot Lists.

Extreme Close Up-

The ECU  gets right in and shows extreme detail.
You would normally need a specific reason to get this close. It is too close to show general reactions or emotion except in very dramatic scenes.



Close Up-

The closeup shot, a certain feature or part of the subject takes up most of the frame. A close up of a person usually means a close up of their face (unless specified otherwise).

Close-ups are obviously useful for showing detail and can also be used as a cut-in.
A close-up of a person emphasizes their emotional state. Whereas a mid-shot or wide-shot is more appropriate for delivering facts and general information, a close-up exaggerates facial expressions which convey emotion. The viewer is drawn into the subject's personal space and shares their feelings.


Medium Shot-


The mid shot shows some part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. In fact, this is an approximation of how you would see a person "in the flesh" if you were having a casual conversation. You wouldn't be paying any attention to their lower body, so that part of the picture is unnecessary.
The MS is appropriate when the subject is speaking without too much emotion or intense concentration. It also works well when the intent is to deliver information, which is why it is frequently used by television news presenters. 


Long Shot-

A shot that depicts an entire character or object from head to foot. But not as long as an establishing shot








Tracking Shot-


A shot that follows a subject be it from behind or alongside or in front of the subject. Not as clumsy or random as a panning shot, an elegant shot for a more civilized age. 




Establishing Shot-

A shot, at the head of the scene, that clearly shows the locale the action is set in. Often comes after the aerial shot.







Low Angle Shot-



A shot looking up at a character or subject often making them look bigger in the frame. It can make everyone look heroic and/or dominant. Also good for making cities look empty.



High Angle Shot-

A shot looking down on a character or subject often isolating them in the frame. Nothing says Billy No Mates like a good old high angle shot.







Over The Shoulder Shot-

A shot where the camera is positioned behind one subject's shoulder, usually during a conversation. It implies a connection between the speakers as opposed to the single shot that suggests distance






Two Shot-


A medium shot that depicts two people in the frame. Used primarily when you want to establish links between characters or people who are beside rather than facing each other.








Panning Shot-



A shot where the camera moves continuously right to left or left to right. An abbreviation of "panning". Turns up a lot in car chases and on You've Been Framed

Cabin In The Woods.

The Cabin in the woods is an American Horror film made in 2012. The film is about a group of people who decide to go away for a weekend to a derelict cabin in the middle of the woods. They start to find things out about the cabin, such as the mirror in one of the rooms, is not a normal mirror and you can see straight through it into the other room. After a while more unusual things happen and they find out the cabin is different. The cabin is actually being watched and controlled by people, where they send zombies into the woods to kill people.

This part of the film is where some of our ideas came from, to include a cabin in our film. Having a cabin automatically makes the scene tense and makes the audience unaware of what may happen, which makes the film more interesting and more of a horror. Having a cabin in our film could also make the audience relate back to this film,and therefore think something familiar may occur in this film. Our location is very similar to the cabin in the woods setting. The cabin we have is surrounded by trees, bushed, leaves and is muddy. However inside our cabin it is empty, with some broken window and an old bed frame, which suggests to the audience that someone used to live there but is now abandoned. This makes it even more creepier and tense as you don't know what happened to them. You can also tell that people have been there recently as there are empty bottles around,but as our film is based on a zombie Apocalypse, people may of just used it to hide for a little while, although they would probably still be there. This implies that there may be something out there and something has happened to them. In our film the one of the main characters Richard is the guy getting chased by a zombie and uses the cabin to try and protect himself, after seeing the cabin the audience will know he is not safe and this will create a build up of tension.

The rest of the film doesn't have much to do with ours, but in part of the film  'cabin in the woods' you see two characters find their way into the main part of the cabin where its all being controlled and where all the monsters and animals are kept to use in the cabin. This gave us some ideas on what we could of base our film on by seeing all these different types of creatures. In the end we chose zombies as the boys knew a lot about them, due to the zombie films they have watched. We also agreed it would be easier to do as we can do the makeup and costumes easily, and it will make a good horror.

'The cabin in the woods' is obviously based in a cabin, in the woods and the whole film is based on the cabin.Whereas our film is based around different parts in the film and not focused on the cabin.We only have a few scenes that are focused on the cabin as it changes the location a little and makes the film look more interesting.