These are the results we obtained from our questionnaires. We have chosen the most relevant answers to put into graphs, as some of them we had already asked in our online survey.
These results show that the majority of people chose suspenseful music that builds up, with most of the people that chose it being female. For us, this is a good answer as we were leaning towards making this choice for music anyway. Many people didn't know what contrapuntal music even meant, but after telling them how it was happy/cheery music placed within a scary/suspenseful scene - most were enthused and said that would be a good choice. These two favourites suggest to us that maybe we could employ both into our opening, careful not to have too much of a clash of music however. Eerie children's' music was the third choice, an outcome that relieved us because we feel sometimes this type of music with a horror scene is overused. Classical got no votes, but it wasn't an option we were leaning towards anyway.
The graph shows that the majority of people would prefer a female protagonist to a male i.e the one that gets kidnapped, conforming to the age old 'damsel in distress' plot. The majority of people also said they would prefer a male antagonist i.e the kidnapper, however this option was quite closeThe dynamic of weak-female-strong-male is overused, so we are deciding whether to challenge this and surprise the audience by casting a male protagonist or a female antagonist.
However, if this dynamic is what people want to see, and is what would generate the most ticket sales in the real world - it seems counterintuitive to do the opposite.
