Audience research:

Name: Jim Foster-Grundy

1. How old are you?
19
2. What is your occupation?
University student
3. How commonly do you watch films?
3/4
4. What genre of film do you watch the most?
Cult films or action films
5. What are three of your favourite films and why?
Into the wild, Inception, The dark knight rises
6. Do you pay attention to titles in a film opening?
Not often, unless there is no other scene going on during the titles
so I am not distracted.
7. What conventions do you associate horror films genre with?
Big dark houses and scary music
8. What would you expect to see in the opening scenes of a
horror film?
Set the scene of the film, the place in which the characters may be
spending most of the film in.
9. What kinds of music do you expect to hear in a horror film?
Sharp, piercing sounds and unexpected music.
10.
How important do you think music and cinematography
in setting the genre of a film?
I think what makes horrors scary is camera skill and music because
nothing they can show you on screen is as scary as whats in your

head so a good horror film is all about suggestion that comes from
music and cinematography.