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A Nightmare On Elm Street on Dipity.

I tried to use a interactive time line to portray the idea's of media convergence, but because of technology the time line worked but did not put the events in order. What I have learned from the opening sequence of this film is that the Directors name is last. This is the same in other films I have studied. To view the points in the time line click on the first event and use the arrows.

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Box Office Performance for Horror Movies in 2010

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2010 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Paranormal Activity 2	Horror	R	$84,660,648	10,784,796	$84,660,649
2	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Horror	R	$63,075,011	8,035,033	$63,075,009
3	The Wolf Man	Horror	R	$62,189,884	7,922,278	$62,189,882
4	Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D	Horror	R	$53,183,340	6,774,948	$53,183,342
5	Saw VII 3D	Horror	R	$45,710,178	5,822,953	$45,710,181
6	The Last Exorcism	Horror	PG-13	$41,034,350	5,227,306	$41,034,352
7	The Crazies	Horror	R	$39,123,589	4,983,897	$39,123,591
8	Daybreakers	Horror	R	$30,101,577	3,834,596	$30,101,579
9	Piranha 3D	Horror	R	$25,003,155	3,185,115	$25,003,153
10	My Soul to Take	Horror	R	$14,744,435	1,878,272	$14,744,435
11	Case 39	Horror		$13,261,851	1,689,408	$13,261,853
12	The Human Centipede	Horror	R	$181,467	23,117	$181,468
13	Chain Letter	Horror	R	$138,788	17,680	$138,788
14	George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead	Horror	R	$101,740	12,961	$101,744
15	I Spit on Your Grave	Horror	R	$93,051	11,854	$93,054
16	Paranormal Activity	Horror	R	$64,214	8,180	$64,213
17	Hatchet II	Horror	R	$52,604	6,701	$52,603
18	Deadfall Trail	Horror		$35,855	4,568	$35,859
19	Midnight Reckoning	Horror		$5,673	723	$5,676
20	Heartless	Horror		$3,697	471	$3,697
Total Gross of All Movies				$472,765,107
Total Tickets Sold					60,224,857
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$472,765,127

As you can see from the table above, the highest grossing horror film of 2010 was paranormal activity 2. We can see that most of the highest grossing horror films are either sequels like resident evil: afterlife 3D or remakes like A nightmare on elm street.  We also know that some of these horror films use 3D technology attracting a wider audience because it immerses the audience more in the film, although there are films with a high budget to produce, we see that paranormal activity is 16^th in the list and paranormal activity 2 is 1^st. This shows us that you don’t need a huge budget to create a huge profit.

From these stats I would say that our film can be a low budget film and still produce a massive profit. So I would say that it would be easier to make a low budget film, as long as you create a big enough hype over the film people will go to see it despite if they think they like it or not. We’ll do this through viral marketing on the internet. Also the ratings for all of these films except number 6th on the list are all rated R movies.  This tells me that if a horror films wants to do good it generally has to be quite graphic. Although some would say that if it is possible to reduce the age rating of a film it will increase the target audience. I think there is a gap in the market for a low budget, none graphic horror movie. This is what will we hope to achieve in the making of our horror film.