How did you attract your audience?

Evaluation Question 5

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Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, American Psycho, The Machinist, The Black Swan…what do all these movies have in common? If you’re thinking psychological-horror thriller, bingo!


According to researchers examining this predicament, we crave being scared. Why? Because this kind of being scared is a safe one. According to Fishcoff, senior editor of the Journal of Media Psychology, when we watch scary movies, we know that there is an end to it, and that we will still be perfectly fine—well most of the time. According to researchers, as we live relatively calm and uneventful lifestyles, we seek sensational and stimulating events (Andrade & Cohen, 2007). The levels of how much sensation we seek varies and not everybody resorts to bungee jumping or skydiving; cue psychological horror movies!

 In the words of Fishcoff, “Horror movies are one of the better ways to get really excited.” Therefore as research has demonstrated, sensation that we seek is directly related to how much we enjoy a horror movie (Walters. 2004). Therefore, higher the need we have for seeking sensation, the more we enjoy the movies. This also explains why youngsters who have a greater need for stimulation and excitement than older adults are the main consumers of this movie genre (Begley, 2011). Researchers also found counter-intuitive results—when more negative emotions were aroused whilst viewing a psychological-horror, higher was the liking for the same. Thus, watching such movies provide us with a cathartic effect (Walters, 2004) and fulfill our natural curiosity. Through these movies and characters, we vicariously experience what we would never be able to do in real life. The movies allow us to experience just the right amount of fear and excitement, without the danger in a real situation. Watching horror movies helps us relieve our daily stresses in unexpected ways, albeit a minority may spend a few sleepless and cautious nights.

 Monk Prayogshala, India (2015, March 5). ‘‘I see dead people…’’: Why we watch psychological-horror movies. By Monk Prayogshala, Merin Sanil, Retrieved April 29, 2015, from the Facebook post Web:

http://www.monkprayogshala.in/news/2015/3/5/i-see-dead-people-why-we-watch-psychological-horror-movies

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This is an article I found on internet, it said people like to watch horror movies because this kind of being scared is a safe one. So the story should be more horrifying and mystery then it will be more attractive to my audience.

Of course, the actors need to have a really skillful technique of acting and attract audiences’ attention, make audiences feel themselves are in the movies, good at facial expressive and eye contacted.
Besides, the music and sound effect are both important as well, but sometimes have some silent are more thrilling.

When choosing backgrounds or locations, it needs to be caution, especially the time. Depend on the time, the park is gloomy at night, but at midday, the sunshine is strong and usually has children over there during the daytimes, well, but nothing is absolutely right or wrong, maybe some people have an unexpected imagination and technique to make story and do the film-editing.