Task 2: Audience Research

The most popular horror short film in the Short Horror playlist is The Smiling Man by Michael Evans. His short film, The Smiling Man 3,682,331 views and 28.4k likes and in addition, he has 20k subscribers.





I was looking at the comments and their profiles but I couldn't find any of their ages so I considered them to be adults  but I cannot be too sure about the gender because I looked at most of their profiles and there was nothing about their age nor their gender. So my intended audience would have to be adults and I will be looking at an audience of both male and female. I will gather data by talking to them on social media platforms as it is the best way for me to accumulate data rather than going out and asking people on the street for the purpose of questioning them.






I used the following social media platforms to talk to people about what they like about thrillers and what they would like to see more of in thriller episodes. I decided to accumulate information from people within my intended audience so that I can consider these in the production of my short horror  film. 

The first person I interviewed said that Psychological stuff and suspense would rather be seen more than blood and gore and distortion in people's minds and flashbacks to tell the story.

The next person I interviewed said that they preferred a developed storyline and tension building up to engage the audience.

The third person I interviewed favours suspense and the development of tension on specific scenes rather than tension throughout since it is overused and losing its meaning.

The fourth person would like to see a piece of what happened at the start and then investigations to find evidence and the pursuit and in the end the criminal is brought to justice. To summarise the fourth person prefers to see more of mystery in horror films.