Google trends - The social context of our horror
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By using Google trends, you can see how often a topic or word is searched into Google. To the left is the table from how often 'Horror' is searched on Google. As you can see there is a upward trend as on average you can see the interest is growing over time. It is also interesting to notice that there are a lot of sharp increases in the graph, by looking into the graph i found that these happen every year around October. This is obviously due to this time being around Halloween.
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As we think our film is going to be a paranormal I also searched for slasher films to see how popular they are. To the right is the table from how often 'Paranormal Movies' is searched on Google. It is easy to see that 2005 slasher movies had a very rapid increase but then it also had a rapid fall. It has then had a slow increase in searches but like horror has an increase in searches in October because of Halloween.
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To the far left is a picture of a world map that is coloured with light and dark blue. Dark blue is where paranormal movies are regularly searched. The picture closer to the middle of the screen shows Great Britain. You can see on this picture that England is a very good place to have slasher movies as slasher movies are searched for often. This is good for our movie as we will be releasing it first in England and as our movie will be a paranormal type horror it will be received well.
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