In my trials I investigated whether or not different genres of movie actually significant changed one's heart rate. I tested an overall amount of four people ranging in age from thirteen to forty-two. I used movies from the horror (The Woman in Black), action (Suckerpunch), drama (The Happening), and romance genre (The Vow). I found that the genre with the highest average rate in change of heart rate was Horror with an 12.81% average, followed by drama with 5% average, than romance with a 4.48% average, lastly action -0.05% average. My hypothesis was if I tested 4 different movie genres then the genre with the highest average percent of change in heart rate would be horror because these movie are formulated to exhilarate viewers heart beat. Horror the genre with the highest percentage by 7%. It was also the only genre to break a 10% percent average.
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However not all responses created the same amount of heart acceleration. An example would be while showing the clips from the horror movie The Woman in Black the audience gave both physical reactions such as jumping and audio responses like screams. The subjects who gave a physical reactions heart rate was much slower than those who jumped out of their seat. Another observation was when asked what their favorite of the movies shown was 75% of the subjects said action. Action in testing gave the lowest score, however got highest in popularity. While investigating I ran into the problem of finding an accurate and affordable heart rate monitor. I started with things we already owned. An apple watch gave different readings every second changing from 92 BPM to 75 BPM, and the only other monitor in the house was hooked to a 300 pound fitness machine. I finally settled on just having the viewer checking their pulse with their fingers on their neck or
However not all responses created the same amount of heart acceleration. An example would be while showing the clips from the horror movie The Woman in Black the audience gave both physical reactions such as jumping and audio responses like screams. The subjects who gave a physical reactions heart rate was much slower than those who jumped out of their seat. Another observation was when asked what their favorite of the movies shown was 75% of the subjects said action. Action in testing gave the lowest score, however got highest in popularity. While investigating I ran into the problem of finding an accurate and affordable heart rate monitor. I started with things we already owned. An apple watch gave different readings every second changing from 92 BPM to 75 BPM, and the only other monitor in the house was hooked to a 300 pound fitness machine. I finally settled on just having the viewer checking their pulse with their fingers on their neck or