The football factory - website

http://www.thefootballfactory.com/webpages/home.html



 This website is a good foundation of what a film website should have, firstly a summery of the plot. Secondly it features the movie trailer, which will be part of our coursework, so we shall put it on our website.

 Quite importantly it also has various paragraphs on the cast and crew, which the audience will be interested to read about, to get some background knowledge on the film.
Director- Nick Love
If viewers access the website before the release of the film, they will be delighted to find a slide show on different scenes of the film. This also works as a trailer in a slight way, because it gives the audience a little taster on what they might expect, and leave them wanting more.
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 This also introduces images which breaks up the text, which could put the website viewers off, because too much ready is often boring. If the website has different media then it will be more fun and interactive for the audience.
 Also included is contact details, this is helpful because if they have any inquires they know how to deal with it. Also other relevant links are included, on our website this could include, either work we have done, including our As project, anything we work from at home, or any other students that have projects relevant to ours. Which is quite similar to the links below, our website could link to our production company with news and information about any future projects.

The Dark Knight offical website

http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/dvdsite/

A promotion package for a new film

After discussing options with the rest of the group, i think question two might be the project we take on for A2.

2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options:

a website homepage for the film;

a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

a poster for the film.

Already our group have begun to discuss what we might do, and researched well known film trailers for inspiration.

 From this clip, we instantly connote the use of fades to black. The trailer is fast pace, to keep the audience interested in the action on the screen. Another common trick used in movie trailers is to include , every exiting moment in the film, to attract views. This often leaves the audience angry, if the rest of the film isn't as good, however will increase the profit, its one of the tricks of the trade. The trailer will introduce every main character, featuring attractive characters, because 'sex sells'. If the audience has an instant attraction to a character, this will increase the chance of them actually going to watch/to buy the film.
The trailer will begin at a slow pace, then the shots become quicker and tighter and full of action, to come to a climax. At this point it will leave the audience exited, and the trailer i will come to an end, leaving them wanting more.

Welcome to A2 media!

As media is officially over, the exam and course work is officially complete! My predicted grade is a B which I am happy about, so now in A2 I'm going to strive towards an A! Each possible task was given to us today, the one which stuck out most in my mind, and appealed to my creative side was the T.V documentary, or a soap trailer. The T.V documentary because it sounds exiting and the trailer because one of my close friends had done this as her As media project, and it was quite successful, she also got an A in her coursework.
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Here are some examples of a range of trailers, which can give us ideas and start to train our brains how trailers work, another reason why trailers are convenient is because we live in a world where we can't escape advertising.

every shot featured in this trailer, you will notice are close ups. This is so the short clip can introduce each character quickly, close ups are necessary because the audience have to get a feel of which characters they might be watching in future. Most characters will have sex appeal, because as they say in the industry "sex sells", if the audience has an instant attraction to a character, weather it be obvious, or sub conscience; the likely hood of them tuning in will be high.
Within this short clip we already know the the names of the main characters, and this is from the use of text, alongside a interesting shot of the character.
There are a series of quick cuts, the trailer has to be fast pace to keep the audience interested. The non-diagetic music as to be related to the contents of the soap, a piano piece is featured in this clip, which compliments the horror, Gothic fantasy theme which is obvious through the use of set design, characters, music, dialogue and action.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film we represent the social group of young white females. We portrayed our character as pure and vulnerable by dressing her in a cardigan and white trainers. White signifies purity and that she may be a virgin which adds to the eeriness , that the attack may be one of sexual motives.
 High angle shots, signify to the audience that the person featured in the shot is the victim, and that someone may be looking down on them which makes them the lesser power.
 Focusing on the social group of teenagers, she is shown talking to a male via text, which brings up two points we have made. Teenagers at this age commonly blossom relationships at this particular stage in their lives, and believe there in love (puppy love) which always quickly comes to a tragic end. However this end ins extremely more tragic then usual.
 Another point is the use of technology, a Mobile phone, and young adolescents use text messages to communicate rather then phone calls. This is because we live in the computer generation they don't make much real contact they communicate through phone or computer screens.
 We challenge ideology's by crossing classic with modern film, which creates a new and exiting take on films we had researched.

In what ways does your media produt use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 Our film simultaneously develops and challenges similar media product. A number of conventions were used to create a film which is a sci-fi and horror. which its self challenges classic ideology's. A convention which sticks to classic horror. is the location of a school which is also featured in recent horrors such as, Wes Cravens, 'Scream'.  Also the school in particular,  which happens to be hundreds of years old which worked massively in our favour. Features of the school are quite Gothic, which you would imagine are quite similar to buildings, in ligature of the classic horror genre. Much like Edgar Allen Poe's, The Masque of the Red Death. Although our school is not as picturesque, similar themes are feature in out mise en scene.
 The use of another convention of the classic genre, in nearly every classic black and white horror film features a damsel in distress who is stalked and prayed on by a male villain. She is always beautiful on a scene, pure and helpless. A film which features is the Tod Browning 1931 'Dracular'. [INSERT PIC] The idea that the attack could be of a sexual nature is not obvious in our film, however leaves room for the possibility.
 Another convention similar to the horror genre is the classic story line, we created nothing out of the ordinary to avoid confusion. In films such as Stanley Kubrick's, 'The shining' (Stanley Kubrick was a huge influence in the making of our film) the story line basically is- the male villain prays on te female damsel, and a huge amount of suspense is created by the music and certain shots, for example the corridor scene shot on an uneasy angle, which is featured in out film.
 We also challenge conventions quite bravely by producing a classic horror/ modern sci-fi. Instead of sticking to black and white which was the original plan, we made a brave decision to use colour grading, which gave a huge amount of unease to the film which was the intentions. It's so close to reality however not quite the same, which makes it eerie. This decision was the beginning of the sci-fi genre with a classic horror undertone.
 The non-diagetic music which creates suspense and a pace tot he film, challenges all sci-fi films. This music is not featured in such films because most films would not mix genres to avoid a possible clash. The music from our film was an influence from typical classic horrors.
 Another factor which challenges conventions of real media products is the villain, by watching our film some may question why there is an un-human villain in a school. This breaks every stereotypical sci-fi or classic horror. For example  James Cameron's 'The Terminator' . Which was a huge influence on our editing, the robot-being isn't featured in a school, he would have no place in this environment, its predominantly set in the slums of America, which is far from a secondary school in Britain which is where our film  is set.