Consolidation of Research

I have conducted this research to help me plan and create my own horror short film. I am creating my film with Eden and Aidan who have also been doing some research.

My aim is to try and create something that my audience will like but also get scared of.

From my research I will use audiences expectations, this means I now know that they expected to have the common fears within any type of horror film either being a short or a feature film. I will use as much as the common fears as I can for example the dark, walking home alone, being alone, clowns, spiders etc.

I have also gathered information that tells me thing audiences enjoy for example intellectual puzzles - they can work something out before the character can. They also like to be able to predict what is going to happen in a horror short - stereotypical features within, this means I am going to try and add as many stereotypical features in as I can within my short film.
There is also features of a horror film which most audience members enjoy, for example the most common one is the jump scare, this means building the tension before making a jump scare either something jumping out etc.

Before I go on to make my short film I am going to watch some more horror shots to see how they do different things and some shorts that are close to my idea. I will then have a meeting with my team member so that we can discuss our finding and see what we want to do next.