Film Posters and Initial Teaser Trailer Idea

We looked at a few horror film posters, to allow us to get some ideas for our own poster. These posters helped us to use a range of ideas when creating our film poster.
We looked at this poster even though it does not match our genre or storyline. We used it to get a range of ideas for our poster. This film is a certificate of 18, which is higher than ours, but from the poster, it could attract a younger audience as well.

We chose to look at this poster, because of the use of the lighting upon the person in the poster. This is because we want to use this effect in our poster. The background is quite dark which is also another effect we want to use. This film is certificate 18 which is higher than our film age, but that is due to th context of the film, the poster was still useful when creating our poster.

This poster has the conventions of a horror, with the dark colours. We chose to lok at this poster because of the use of the dark colours and because its genre matches ours. Although this film is certificated 13, and we are aiming for 15, the poster was still useful to look at when creating our poster.

This poster fits the horror genre, which is the genre we have chosen to base our film upon. We chose to look at this poster, as there is someone watching the girl in the mirror, like a stalker, to which we want our film to have a storyline of. The poster has a blue wash on it, creating a mysterious effect upon the viewer. This film is rated a 15, which is the certificate that we want our film to be.

This is our first idea for our teaser trailer. We have decided not to use it as we felt that it had too many footage that may look like it has come from the film. Also it did not create the effect that we wabted to convey, it did not fit our horror genre. In this storyboard we had visioned a girl writing her diary, whilst her 'stalker' is watching her house from across the road. The 'stalker' then got closer to the house, which we showed by using a range of camera angles and shots. We did not finish this story board as we realised the problems half way through creating it, but the ending would have been either the girl writing the film title in her diary or the 'stalker' posting a letter with the title upon it t6hrough her letter box.

Teaser Trailers

This week, we have learnt the diffeences between normal film trailers and teaser trailers. We watched 2012, Fame, Toy Story 3, the Blair Witch Project and other trailers to see the differences and the different ways to create a teaser trailers.
The differences are:

• Teaser trailers (TT) are much shorter
• There are hardly any film footage in the TT
• TT do not tell the audience much about the film
• TT can be like dirctor's commentary and just have actors speaking
• TT can be made whilst film is being created
• TT come out a year in advance of the film

Movie Poster: First Draft

This is our first draft of our movie poster. The poster is in portrait as it allows us to show the girl's full body and surrounding scenes. We have decided that the picture for the poster will be in the dark, as our movie is going to be about a stalker and this is when they tend to operate. It also creates a tense atmosphere. We have only drawn the stalker's hands and eyes as we do not want the audience to know what the stalker is or who. We are going to make the stalker's eyes an abnormal colour as it creates tension and suspense. The girl in the poster is looking over her shoulder as if she can sense someone behind her, she also has a worried expression. Her hair is blowing which creates pathetic fallacy. We used 'Coming 2011' instead of coming soon in 2011 as it is more definite but creates suspense as it is unknown when in 2011. The movie title 'Stalked' is going to be in messy hand writing, we are going to try it in chalk and see how it looks with our poster. The age for our film will be 15 years as there will not be any major explicit scenes.

Ideas for teaser trailer

Over the past two media lessons, Tom, Emily and I have looked into some ideas that we could use for our teaser trailer. At first we came up with the genre we wanted, which was a horror. We like the idea of a diary based fim as this mean the audience could see the stroyline through the character's eyes and see into their thoughts and feelings. Our first ideas for our teaser trailer were too much like a trailer, as we were using images from the film more than a teaser trailer would. The idea was about a young girl writing her diary, with a falsh to the days events, with her shadw in a shower, then a flash back to her, andthen back to the bathroom with a steamed mirror with a message on it.
We changed ou idea but kept the use of a diary. Although the title of our film is unknown at the moment, we are keen on having the film based on a stalker of some form, human or not is unknown at the present. Our idea that we are working at the moment is using no footage from the film, a young girl writing her diary, a transition to 'Paramount' etc, then to a view through someone\thing's eyes at a house, we then will see a note floating tothe floor with something like 'Im Coming' in news paper cutting. We then will have the screen to change to title of the film and then the year date.
This is only a working progress of an idea though, and will be subject to some change.

The main function of a media text is to generate income and profit. How far do you agree wth this statement?

The main function of a media text is to generate income and profit. How far do you agree wth this statement?

I agree with this statement. For example, Walt Disney is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world, everytime they buy shares or take over another company their main aim is to make a profit from it so that it is a worth while payment. If their aim was not to make profit and an income then there would be no point in them buying the company, it may also restrict them from buy further companies and shares. Although Walt Disney also has another aim when buy shares or a company, this is to advertise. For example Walt Disney owns part of GMTV, and quite often the competition prizes are trips to Walt Disney parks. This advertises the company, but at the end of the day also contributes to their income as the winners are going to the park, spending money there, and most probably will tell their friends about it, making them want to go.

An institution that most probably not produce a media text with the main function to get an income and protif, is the internet. Unless the reader is paying for the sites, then most are free. Most internet sites will produce a text for free, and the costs are covered by the adverts on the page, but BBC.com does not have adverts, and is not getting an income via the website, but through people paying the television licenses. Web pages rely on the audience to view the adverts so that they can generate an income. But most people ignore these.

Newspaper are an institution who do produce media texts to generate an income and profit. They do this by advetising products and stores etc for the type of audience they are aiming at. Papers like the Sun also have card games and bingo etc in their paper, which can generate a profit as it is encouraging more people to buy their paper. They also do he £9.50 holidays to gain a larger audince.

So overall I completely agree with this statement, I think that behind everything an institutions does there is an aim to gain a profit and an income.

Institutions

Institutions can be anything, from school to home. They are basically anything with codes and values to follow. Media institutions are:
-Internet
-Film
-Music
-Broadcast
-Print
Each of these institutions can not work without the others. For example, music can not work with out broadcast and internet to advertise it.
Global patterns are always changing, and as they do so does the concept of the institutions.
Walt Disney is a major film company. Within the company, it has its own codes and values that must be followed. Disney is a family based company, and so films that are produced have a family nature with no sexual refereces, rape, exteme violence etc.
Walt Disney has a powerful affect over the industries. It has shares in many companies, even GMTV. It owns industries such as ESPN, all of the Disney creations e.g. Walt Disney studios, miramax, pixar, marvel entertainment, fox family worldwide, and saban entertainment.

Essay Plan

Essay plan: How does Hollyoaks Later help to attract the target audience?
Introduction:
-Hollyoak's target audience
-Times of showing

Paragraph 1: Stroylines
-comparision between storylines in Hollyoaks and Hollyoaks Later
-HL more explicit stroylines
~older end of audience
-some stroylines in more depth e.g marriage of Syndie

Paragraph 2: Characters
-same characters as normal Hollyoaks
-young
-fashionable

Paragraoh 3: Settings
-more settings e.g prison, festival
-same setings that they are familiar with e.g SU bar

Paragraph 4: Time Slot
-for older end, those just coming in etc
-still can understan Hollyoaks with out watching the spin off

Paragraph 5: Conclusion
-sum up how Holloaks Later attracts audience

Hollyoaks and Eastenders

Hollyoaks and Eastenders have many differences, the main one being their target audience. Hollyoaks aims their soap at the young generation, such as teenagers and university students. Eastenders on the other hand aims the soap at a wider audience such as families, and people who work. Hollyoaks main cast is young characters who wear all the latest fashions and get dressed up just to sit at home. Eastenders is different to Hollyoaks as the character list is a range, from Dot and Jim down to Roxy and her little baby girl. The characters in this soap wear normal every day clothes apart from some of the younger characters who may wear some clothing that is fashion. There are also many more differences between the two well known soaps, such as settings, the time slots, and the storylines.