Launching Your Film.

Where you will hold the premier of your film?

Europe
starting in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid.

Who will you invite to the premier?

• Actors in the film,
• Artists on the soundtrack,
• Young actors/actresses that it may appeal to,
• Family members to the stars.

Where will you advertise your film?

• Billaboards
• Tv trailers
• Cinema trailers
• Magazine advertisments
• Internet ( social networking, youtube ect.)
• Public transport ( buses, taxis, trains)

Have you run a teaser campaign in the build up to release?

Yes, i would put posters on billaboards around london prior to release, i would also make a short trailer to put out on the web before the final trailer is released.

What competitions will you be running ?

There will be a selection of competitions for both younger audience and older audiences, for the younger audience there will be competitions such as having the chance to meet the stars, for the older audiences there will be a chance to win a trip to the place where the film is produced.

What merchandise will support your film?

There will be merchandise Relationship jewellery, love items such as heart shaped pillows, and cups and other items that can be sold as special edition at the cinema.

How will you use your stars to promote your film?

The stars of my films will be asked to do tv, magazine and radio interviews to promote the film, they will be asked to do interview junkets and photoshoots.

What shows, magazine interviews, radio and web will be most beneficial and therefore targeted?

The shows that will be most targeted will be teenage channels such as Channel 4, E4 4 music, MTV and E!.

The magazines it will be advertised in would be Vogue, Star, Heat and other celebrity magazines.

Radio shows that it is likely to be advertised on is Capital, Radio 1 and Jack FM.

It will be advertised on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube and Tumblr.

Are there any products that you could attempt to tie your film in with ?

•  Music
• Accesorise
• Valentines day products

What is a realistic box office figure for your style of film ?

$2.8 million

Feedback

How do you feel the trailer was successful?

• Successful by telling the story but editing could have been higher quality.
• Worked well with the music, montage of photos was effective, gave a pre-warning.
• High tempo
• Unclear storyline
• Yes considering the context
• Quicker cuts needed

Did it contain the codes and conventioms of the appropriate genre?

• Contained the typical phases of a relationship.
• Relevat music, photosm of couples worked well
• Didn't seem funny although it was a comedy
• Some comedy/ misunderstanding

Would it sit comfortably alongside other trailers for the cerificate?

• No, editing needs more attention, stick to one bit of music.
• Hits the target audience, because of teen storylines and young actors.
• Would sit comfortably alongside cerificate.
• Needs more depth

How does it appeal to its target audience?

• Typical love songs.
• linked through lyrics
• elaborate edits.
• Partyrocking
• The music

Are the following appropriate?

Font:

• Yes x5
• No x 2

Images:

• Yes x6
• No x1

Wording:

• Yes x7
• No x0

Tagline:

• Yes x5
• No x 2

Colours:

• Yes x4
• No x3

How do you think the trailer could be improved?

• Stick to one song.

Any other comments.

Movie trailer

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My Film Plot

A young teenage couple Louise and Arron are coming up to the 2 year anniversary. Arron plans a romantic dinner for them however previous to that day Louise had been told that the family were moving away and she has to break the news to Arron.

Arron is devastated and consults in his friends, Louise moves away and after about a month she realises that she is unable to keep a long distance relationship with Arron. Arron however is not ready to loose Louise, Arron and his friends decide that they will make a plan to win her back and to do this start by watching movies, as they watch more and more films they begin to hatch a plan thinking that the way to get Louise back is by doing what they do in the movies, they make several stages

1.       Send presents such as flowers chocolates balloons.

2.       Showing up unexpectedly

3.       Throwing a huge party and inviting her

4.       Write her a song

5.       Save her life (does something to have to save her )

Although Arron thinks this is romantic and will win Louise back little does he know that she is starting to fall for another guy in her new town. Arron’s friend joe is best friends with louise and she has told him this but he does not lnow whether or not he should tell arron he chooses not to.

After doing the 5 things to win louise back arron realises that she is not interested and is with another guy and tries to deal with it, arron finds it hard to get over louise, when louise comes to visit she realises how sad arron is and tries to talk to him about what went wrong.

In the end arron falls in love with a girl back home and louise stays with the guy back home, the pair remain close friends.

Two film case studies

Film 1 ( Friends with benifits)

Shot types
Cutaway shot - shows the two main characters together in the main location of the film.
Medium upclose shot shows the two characters together but without seeing the location aswel.
Mid shot
Cutaway shot- shows the location and characters together
Extreme wide shot- shows all sections of the location.
Over the shoulder shot- switches while the characters talk to each otheer
Medium close up- shot points upwards.
Mid shot- servral used in same minute to show different locations
Close up- shows the emotions
Wide shot- shows location and surrondings

The length of the trailer is 1 minute 44 seconds.
The codes and conventions that the trailer follows are:

• Voiceover
• Main characters introduced
• Romantic colouring and text
• Boy meet Girl
• Romantic hesitation
• Live happily ever after

Film 2 ( Love actually)

love actually
Wide shot- shows the city at christmas
Mid shot- shows a character dancing
wide shot- shows another character in his location
Two shot- shows 2 characters together in the frame
Over the shoulder shot- showing an introduction between two characters
Close up- characters whisper
Mid shot- shows main character talking
long shot- shows location
close up- shows emotion

The length of the trailer is 2 minutes and 31 seconds.
The codes and conventions that the trailer follows are:

• Voiceover / prologe
• introduction to main characters
• Romantic credits
• boy meets girl
• grand gesture

Questionnaire

Are you…

·         Male

·         Female

How old are you?

·         15 and under

·         16-25

·         26-35

·         36-45

·         45 or older

How often do you watch a comedy film?

·         Once a week

·         More than once a week

·         Once a fortnight

·         Once a month

·         More than once a month

·         One or more times a year

·         Never

Do you prefer…

·         Cinema or watching a film at home?

What sub-genre would you prefer?

·         Romantic

·         Horror

·         Police

·         Animation

·         Other (please state)

Would you prefer …

·         Girl fight over boy or boy fights over girl.

·         Falling in love or falling out of love.

·         Love and attack or heart break from death

·         Dumb policeman saves the day or clever policeman proved wrong by dumb policemen.

·         Or write what you prefer here.

What do you like about comedy films?

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What do you dislike about comedy films?

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What do you look for during advertisement of a comedy film?

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