"The Music Box" Planning - Storyboard.

Audience Research.

We created a questionairre (made up from the questions below) and asked 18 people around college.
We collected our results, and I have presented them in the form of pie charts below.
This audience research will help us decide on how to make a horror movie that will be successful.

Who Do You Prefer To Watch Horror Movies With?

Most popular: Watching with a friend.
Least popular: Watching alone.

What's Your Favourite Horror Sub-Genre?

Most popular: Psychological.
Least popular: Slasher.

What Kind Of Location Frightens You?

Most popular: Underwater.
Least popular: Attic/Forests.

What Interests You About A Horror Movie?

Most popular: Jumpy bits.
Least popular: Other/Voice-overs.

What's Your Gender?

What Components Of Horror Frighten You The Most?

Most popular: The 'unknown'.
Least popular: Entrapment.

In Which Format Do You Usually Watch Horror Movies?

Most popular: DVD.
Least popular: TV.

How Would You Define Your Viewing Habits Of Horror Movies?

Most popular: Occasional.
Least popular: Not at all.

How Old Are You?

Horror Moodboard.

This is the moodboard I created which shows elements we want to include in our horror trailer, i.e.: Creepy houses, the prospect of drowning, long corridors etc.

Initial Idea - "The Music Box"

The basic outline of the story for our teaser trailer is of a teenager being given a music box for her birthday, which has been within the family for several generations. The music box has the history of a past child relative, in posession of the music box, drowning whilst the music box was playing. The teenager becomes posessed by the spirit of the music box over the course of the film.