In my last blog, I talked about an essay I had written for our last project (specialist study) and how I felt I had explained my awareness of the genre I am planning on working within as well as discussing who the fans of horror tend to be and what about the genre entices them. As you can imagine, my essay did not involve many straight forward answers or statistics as I wanted it to be more of a topic discussion rather than an analysed explanation, so through this blog will be simplifying some of my findings about my target audience as well looking at the answers to a short questionnaire I will be sending round. I myself am of course a huge fan so in this blog will be factoring myself into this as well as some statistics from a questionnaire I will be sending out.

Although I feel I am pretty familiar with my target audience and the demographic I am trying to reach but thought it may be useful to send round a questionnaire to get some actual statistics on my target audience.

In my essay I looked into the phycology of who likes horror and it did tend to suggest it was mostly men due to their far more aggressive tendencies. Whereas I wanted to prove that nowadays, a lot more women seem to enjoy horror than they are expected to due to the same idea of men being a great deal more aggressive. In fact, from looking at the individual responses, only 1 out of all the people who said they didn’t like horror were female, meaning that the remaining 4 were all men.

Through looking at and comparing the result from “Do you enjoy risk taking or being scared?” and the “if you enjoy horror, why?” questions, I can clearly see that many people who enjoy horror tend to enjoy the feeling of adrenaline in general. Meaning that this demographic (teenagers/young adults of both genders) do tend to enjoy being scared.

I want to create a psychological and supernatural horror and many people said they enjoyed psychological horrors the most, this is good because I am hoping to create something that makes the audience think a little bit more than a basic slasher (for example) plot line may have.

The questionnaire has been up for about two days now and so I have gotten a lot more responses compared to what I had originally, however did not feel the need to re-analyse them as the pattern of the questions has stayed extremely similar. So instead of re-doing all the work I have done I thought it would be better to just put them at the bottom of this blog. The only thing that these extra answers brought to light that the original answers didn’t is the fact that so many people said their favourite sub-genres were either, psychological, which I have already mentioned, supernatural and gore. The fact that so much of my target audience likes gore and supernatural horror films really helps me in terms of what I want to create.