primary research

My short film Hook

 The hook of my short film is the flash back they keep unfolding the boys character and you want to know more about him and the fast pace editing will draw the viewers of the ages round 13-18 to be more interested in the short film and the end will leave them wanting more and thinking what could of happened to the him and the other characters.

I started my research on facebook and i came to find that most of the people who like horror are teenagers and the gender is just a bit one sided towards the male side. i went on to looking on there profiles and looked at some of the films they like and post and most of them are teen based. so using that information i need to think about  basing my short film around teens of that age.

my film is about a teenage boy that perviously had some sort of psychological problems and has killed a number of people. he now been freed after a number of years and he is walking home. a group of boys see him and start to follow him to attempt to rob him and to a normal person on the street you would think that it is just a sad boy trying to get home. as the boy is walking he stops and starts to twitch, which is when he is having flash backs of when he was in the physiatric hospital and when he was at his worst point in time killing his mother and father. when the boy finally catch up to him and attempts to rob him he goes back in to the state he used to be in and then it cuts to backness then all four boys are on the flour dead and he walks away with a smile on his face but still you cant see his face.
in the horror playlist this channel 'ponysmasher' is the most viewed and subscribed out of all the videos with 65,210 subscribers. when i was going the videos that the channel share and post they are a mix of animated and short horror films that seem to be very popular. looking in the short film that have been posted and most of them are adult based. so most of the characters are mainly adults so they are not really teenage based on this particular channel. when looking in the comment section i came to find that most of the comment are coming from users who seem like they are 'adults' and most of them are male users. 

so looking this makes need to change some of the things in my short film to suit the wider audience so that i can get more views instead of isolating one section of my audience. 






The next channel i looked at was called future shots which also shows horror film but they are much more popular having 261,129 subscribers and on the video in the horror playlist having almost 

20,000,000 views on a short horror film. on this channel from the looks of the videos they are posting there seems to be much more child actor

unlike the other channel, so this may imply that this channel has a wider audience who watch and share the videos. 

when looking at the looking at the comments you see that most of the people are adults that are talking about the short films  






my idea was based on a character in a Tv Soap called Eastenders 

Eastenders shows to get about 8.26 million views a week which shows to be quite popular in this country.


Is on at pre-watershed time so its audience share is much wider so it is for the whole family