Pitch

Evaluation

My Teaser Trailer

Mr and Mrs Smith Teaser Trailer

Research into my Genre

Romantic Thrillers

I chose this genre as i feel the best teaser trailers are the ones that incorporate emotion into them. If you have an emotional effect on your audience, it heightens the likelihood they'll want to see the film, as they are all ready involved.


http://www.rebeccayork.com/suspense.htm

When researching into this genre, i came across many film writers and directors. Rebecca York was one that interested me. She writes story plot lines for books, usually in the romantic thriller genre. Her stories are full of passion with a racy twist. I took a lot of inspiration from her work and incorporated her love for story telling.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19086.asp

I came across this website where they analyze up and coming films, focusing on different genres.
Here i found a review for Mr & Mrs Smith, i would describe this film as the definition of a romantic thriller. The couple are assassins, who are married ( with complications!) . This film Mixes the key elements to attract both a male and female audience.

Audience Theories

When studying the media we delved into all aspects of how the media, as a whole informs us our world. When you really think about it media is life. We tune into the news and radio, maybe even read newspapers and magazines. They all inform, entertain and educate us. But its the way they do it that creates opinions and this is why we all have different views on things. Its not what they tell us, its how they tell us.

This next video features a short film and interview with Marilyn Manson, who was accused of influencing the Columbine Massacre. The supposed 'influencing' was made through his lyrics and music videos.





The Hypodermic Syringe Theory
This idea suggests that the media inject ideas into peoples heads in many ways. Blaming events and tragedies on the easiest targets, for example Marilyn Manson. When i watched this film I felt quite sympathetic towards Manson. To me he seems like quite a decent and 'normal' guy, no different to those questioning him.

The Cultivation Theory
The way that the media hardens our emotions towards child abuse, violence and poverty. For example adverts for NSPCC can really touch you and make you feel emotion when first seen, but after a while they become second nature, which is sad but you learnt to accept that its just a part of life.

The Two Step Flow
This is the idea that people spread the media and inform others by word of mouth. In a social situation people tend to talk about the issues that are highly mediated, as a result of this peoples' views become contagious and influence others.

Vlog Episode 2

Magazine front cover, Featuring my film.

A THOUSAND WORDS

Another student in my Media group found this short film on www.youtube.com. We watched it as a class and i was amazed at the reaction from us all! I was really touched by the film and it had a very emotional effect on the class. We watched this back in September but but now I've chosen my genre, I feel I was highly influenced by this film.

The film has a beautiful shot from inside the fridge, this is imaginative and allows us as an audience to get closer to the actors, its a personal shot. This shot was used here to add humor to the clip.
There was also a lot of close ups during the film, which showed intense emotion.
I noticed some panning when they're in the park together. Which was nice. It showed how they were intrested in each other and the attraction between them.
A 180* shot was used when they were sat at the table. This allowed us as an audience to see them from another angle, it was also quite an intimate shot as it was focused on their lips. Suggesting a sexual theme.
I enjoyed the editing within the film too, there were a few cross fades and fades to white, something that i am going to include into my film. I admired the lighting towards the end, with the candles and the shading on both faces, very beautiful shots.

Planning.

CHARACTERS

I've got my characters sorted now, which is good because it took a long time finding the right people for the part! I've uploaded some images of them, so you can have a little look. :) I


(I'VE TOUCHED ON MY CHARACTERS IN MY SECOND EPISODE OF MY VLOG. WHERE I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THEM IN MUCH MORE DETAIL)

This is Megan Pigeon. playing 'Megan' She is my main Character, her role is the hardest. She plays a girl in love with two men, and is faced with the biggest decision of her life. She has to decide what she wants and choose her own fate. She makes a mistake by getting involved with another man and can't seem to get out of his hold. When she realizes what she is doing, it seems too late to fix things. Megan has a very emotional role and she's perfect for the part!



This is Nick Selby, playing 'Nick'. Nick's part plays the Fiance to Megan. They had been together for years and Nick plays innocent, not knowing whats going on behind his back. Although he gets the feeling that something isn't right.



This is Micheal Lowe. He is going to be playing 'Micheal' this is the character that Megan is cheating with. Micheal has some nasty characteristics. He keeps persuading Megan to finish things with Nick and live with him, but this isn't what Megan wants. She tries to tell him she doesn't want it anymore, but he refuses to listen. He is set on getting his own way.

LOCATIONS

For the parts indoors we are using Micheal's house. As it's large and the most suitable location to film. In Micheal's living room, he's chosen a red theme, which is also suiting to my trailer as i wanted to promote this colour, in films red usually stands for love. passion, lust and blood. Which suits my trailer perfectly, showing from an arly stage that something bad is going to happen.

For the parts filmed outside, using the car. We will use a car park, situated near Micheal's house.
In this scene Micheal is hit by the car, so we chose to use a car park, as this was the safest place.

VLOG EPISODE 1

Vlog, a blog in the form of a video.
Filmed using my Samsung digital camera and uploaded via my PC.



A breif introduction to my media project, pointing out what i have planned to do and summarising a few introductory lessons we have had.