Here is mine and Ronan's focus group where we ask them the following questions:
- What do you think would be a better weapon to have in a horror film?
- Do you watch horror films?
- Do you go to the cinema to watch horror films?
- When watching a horror film or any film what age do you prefer the main characters to be?
- What do you think is a good general location for a horror film
- What's your favourite horror film?
- Do you like the idea of the final girl?
- Brief overview of idea, what do you think?
Transcript:
This transcript is provided through Youtube and therefore isn't word for word correct but with some tweaking from me I have tried to get it as close as I can.
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Here I've got Kate and Becca, ok so do you watch
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horror films?
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sometimes, yeah sometimes and what do you
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think would be a better weapon to have
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in a horror film? (Kate) and axe (Becca) a chair. Do you
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go to the cinema to watch horror films? Only
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when forced. If I'm going with people
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yes okay when watching a horror film or
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any film what age do you prefer the main
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characters to be? My age
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yeah roughly my age maybe abit older.
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why? More relatable.
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yeah more relatable ok. what do you
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think is a good general location for
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horror film? with a house forest like
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houses they have any particular haunted
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house or abandon houses? A mansion! A mansion?
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it could be really good in a mansion and
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really creepy, you can have
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different things, so a bit like a woman in
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black... i've never seen it but like a
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scavenger hunt with death then what what
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is your favorite horror film ? the orphan
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orphan and the haunted house. do you
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know the final girl theory? is you know the
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final girl is no it's basically right at the
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end there will be a female protagonist
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which is a hero and she will defeat
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the villain (becca) I'd rather them die.
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no I mean yeah so do you like the idea
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of , to you that they're doing the
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final girl do it (kate) I like the idea of a girl doing it,
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it's always like oh look the boys are the saviors of the
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day it's got girls as the damsels in
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distress not like it you like to have it
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a different powerful women less
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stereotypical actually Baps would really like that.
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I'd rather them die because it's more blood and that and
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it's quite fun. I'm gonna give you a
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brief overview of the idea, we were
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thinking for the introduction and then
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I want to ask but tell me what you think
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so basically it would be a group of children
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going up to a house playing a
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and you're bored and then they'll be
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spared kind of thinking along then it
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turned out the spirits from their past
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and they kind of all took a part in
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killing them about realizing and then
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it's like some bloodshed and regroup and
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bloodshed and stuff like that and then
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we're trying to use symbolism when
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they're not quite sure what yet but we
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won't kind of symbol that means revenge
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symbol that means that and then so it
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means you're doing sinking and then
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right at the end there's one person that
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lives
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the rest I and you see a right there
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reliever people die
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yeah oh so what do you think another
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Ouija board thing why brings me that's
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the age over my head and I think
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actually fly or all of them have been
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surviving no survivors no Kristen cause
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if it kills what they should have got we
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were thinking of in it kind of giving
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green and cream to put brief and quick
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kind of flashbacks to why what they did
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to this person you know and then when I
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yeah I like it just don't make it too
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confusing you doing music types of the
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morning during year to you kind of like
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you know it's like someone hit someone
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and understand you get like a bad
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divider memory
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yeah somebody you'd have to make it
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obvious it is like that yeah but yeah
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do you watch horror films sometimes yes
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sometimes I tend to watch the morning
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with my friend something every day
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another hey what do you think would be a
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better weapon and horror film any weapon
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I think nice usually very conventional
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our film don't think they work really
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well
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machete bit but he's always right back
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to you sometimes get tough shot that way
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of golf actor but not good then we'll
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get more action John me sir
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okay and do you get your sandwich arms
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last time I was with the black can be a
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little bit better for me I think I light
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switch on the light netflix and stuff
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like that yeah but that if the site new
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ones out then i'll probably go to the
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cinema and watch it with some friends
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when watching a horror film or anything
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what HD Batman characters
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oh not not hold the light of twenties if
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it's a little kids like little kids that
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makes it really really creepy
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yeah we're gonna die next older yeah
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like you have young people and as well i
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think i'm doing when you have like
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younger antagonist it's really freaky
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like you see this little girls just like
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staring like this goes the girls and
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freak you out but then I think
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protagonist I like to see like Raj got a
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little bit older I know you can't relate
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to them but there's a sense that you
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like you could be in that position
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yeah do you know what the final girl yes
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final goal now basically
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where you've got kind of got this last
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standing female hero that will kill evil
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dragon she's trying to get the other one
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defeat everyone was die or just ate
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cliché nothing I think it's looking
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more and more cliche and preserve our
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societies like doing like it's just
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forward it like I think it's becoming
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more and more thing but yeah not gonna
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be more of a convention yes I feel my
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just watched don't breathe that had the
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final God theory i think it works really
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well so under man yeah it does what well
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I like it that things are I am going to
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give you a brief overview of what we
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want to do production and like actually
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think so
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reviews that you've got a good kids that
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go to this house and in this house is
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kind of spirit and start playing the wii
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u a Ouija board members the spirit that
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you find out it's connected to them like
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all these people so we helped kill this
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person without maybe realizing and
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they'll have these deaths and i'm going
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to use the final girl very in like this
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one little girl instead of killing
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antagonist was going to escape not going
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to symbolize own kind of thing
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yeah-yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah just
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end up see yea attempted am ok good
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yeah thank you I'm road and i'm here
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with that I Carter Charlie and yeah i'm
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going to do the focus group
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ok so first question is what do you
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think would be the best weapon type in a
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horror film in your opinion how are we
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good just because it's my sign
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ok baseball bat I think I don't like the
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base about going boys had positive
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because you're my better not
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yeah some kind of blood doesn't look
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very much like really conventional one
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by always good and sheets and one more
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unconventional very suspenseful music
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with a baseball
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I think someone's gonna die I'm going
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it's not out yet
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ok so simple question do you watch our
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phones
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yes my favorite job I love my don't you
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watch our friend was bad like okay okay
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i'll buy you cotton yeah I got a while
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either
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ok do you go to the server to watch
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horror films we actually went crazy on
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the edge like last week slide being
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harmful and the best like I'm not all
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the experiences cabinets and much more
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expensive is dr. yeah moving at light
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sit down it's a bigger screen federal
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Alvarez i think is named don't redirect
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ya shouting more personal statement
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quicker
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ok so we're watching a horror film or
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any other film what age do you prefer
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the main characters to be depending on
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who is this same it's aimed at my age is
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more likely that
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we're going to watch it but if it's like
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an old lady from two doors down and I'm
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not ready to be bothered so it's just
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trying to make it more relatable
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yeah I like if they're middle-aged your
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thirties because they had the chance to
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go live a normal stable life people are
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you haven't yet so that gotten used to
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that for something to call upset and
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experience to be so harsh you know is
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really gonna do something to them
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already knew you perfectly
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yeah you know if it's a and I probably
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say that middle ages
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yeah okay so what do you think is a good
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general location for our film not the
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way
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so what no no ways I just having it
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yeah in a home i think yeah because it
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makes me just any kind of home yeah i'm
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going to be careful boys
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you know it's just a normal how
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everything like modern more convenient
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little bit about the house would be
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really greatly and you go what is your
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favorite horror film that's like a
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horror-comedy yes so it's so hot it's
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going above look good dude there's
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another white yes is a psychological
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harm just ready okay I is either gonna
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be here in or finders keepers
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do you like the idea of the final girl
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and third path because she doesn't do
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media the final girl is basically a
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female country was the last person alive
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in the film
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yes okay yeah and it's not mention
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because you know me and know me know me
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go and I do i get then it's nice
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sometimes to survive
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yeah because we're gonna use be more
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innocent in horror films so you know
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that is usually the woman that survived
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last internet it's what kind of expected
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that because supposed to sorry for which
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is why she got offended by in the evil
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that we watched recently media that has
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a final one
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yeah I think men have been used recently
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and yeah but in females is less
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conventional it just gets a bit
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predictable when you have all that money
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is going to survive
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yeah okay okay so i'm not going to give
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you a brief overview of the idea for our
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film and I'm going to ask you what you
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think at the end of it it's going to be
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a group of teenagers around our age and
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they are going to go to an abandoned
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area that was a place where one of their
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previous friend died when they are there
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they act all stupid like teenagers
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typically do and they end up trying to
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contact the spirit of their dead friend
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and drawing that like throughout the
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film it's going to kind of switch
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between two realities like with a
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reality kind of ghost world where the
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dead ghost friend is and the real world
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and they can like I'm intertwined and do
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things and the main basis that the ghost
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was actually going to slowly get off all
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of the friends
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Wow yes yes until there is one person
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laughter to my just escaped that was a
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really quick brief overview of what the
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film is but what do you think for him
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it might be like a mixture of black 3g
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and strange things
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oh yeah i that much of american horror
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story season once i love the fact that
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you've got a house where there's ghosts
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in especially I never thought I hope
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with the real world and do things and
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they can kill a little guys go to it
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sounds like a typical 1581 the top 10 we
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can come and go by Dan Jojo models or
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hear anything so better to just joins
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the story together
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yeah birds i think it's funny cuz like
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into lon
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ya see the world your ways to save on ya
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I want to try to do something
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interesting that wasn't really don't
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move is good i think it's gonna be a
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little bit difficult people
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we're gonna try because I think we'll
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have to be lily and the focus group is
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over thanks very much for allowing me to
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Arkham goodbye everyone
