What makes a good film poster?

I think what makes a good film poster is having an eye catching title and pictures but they have to have something to do with the movie, movie genre etc. If the movie was a horror movie, the poster should have Dark red and black colours, red to represent the colour of blood and black to represent darkness.

The Film Posters should include:

• Age rating
• Release Date
• Name of the movie
• Credit Block
• Name of Main Actors
• Tagline

My Film Idea - First Draft

The genre of my film is Horror.
The age rating is going to be 15+.
This Film is going to be for people who enjoy action films as well as horror films because it is going to have many scenes that contain tension.
South London.
The story is about a serial killer that comes into a flat block, murdering people in it violently as well as torturing them before death. The setting is in one big flat block in south London. There will be brutal, extremely violent scenes like stabbing.

Starring Unknown Actors to make it scarier for the audience.

Video Games are Violent and will make you lazy.

I think that violent video games could make you lazy and aggressive if you play them too much, because if you play it too much, you get addicted and it makes you lazy because you would be sitting all day playing them.
So I think that it is not the video games' fault that you become lazy, you should have a limit to how much you play. Some people would say that video games are becoming really violent and are making game players very aggressive because they give the players an image, like if they are playing "GTA" they would get the image that they could do anything so they begin committing crimes, but the game makers put an age rating on the game so that they make sure the people playing it understand that the things that are happening in the game are wrong because they understand what the law is.

Love Letter Poster

Analyzing Film Poster (In Time)

IN TIME

Conventions of a Horror Movie

The conventional colours for the Horror genre would be black and red, the black to represent the darkness and red to represent blood and gore. Horror films have many different locations, they are mostly set in houses, graveyards, and night times for darkness. The conventional Costumes would be a mask and dark leather clothing for the bad person but the victim would have bright, peaceful colours to make them look innocent. For the props, they would use violent things, for cereal killers, they would use big sharp weapons like a machete, sometimes they use guns. Examples of Horror Films are Paranormal Activities, Orphan, Hostel.

Different Film Marketing Methods and what they are suitable for

1. The marketing methods I can remember from today are:

• The Dark Knight Viral Marketing Campaign, it involved people from around the US participating in a campaign that was like a game, players had to find clues and save/take over Gotham. Some people would choose to use things like:

Games
Toys
Websites
Adverts

• Video Games 2.Today I learned that some film marketing methods are suited to particular audience. For example: Creating a Video Game for the film whose audience is 12 and older because most teenagers are interested in Video Games.

3. Today I learned that some film marketing methods are suited to particular genres of film. For example:

• Having a Scary Video Game for a film is best suited to a film which is from the Horror genre because people who play games and they play the game for the film would be interested in watching it.
• Having Toys for a film is best suited to a film which is from the cartoon genre because if children get the toy in a Happy Meal and they like it they would want to watch the film.

Viral Marketing Campaign

The term “viral” describes the way a message can become self-replicating as it is picked up and repeated across the Internet. it could basically such as pictures, websites or video clips.
3 examples of films that have used viral marketing:

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

They made a viral website so people would believed that the film is based on a real story. Viral Website: http://blairwitch.com/legacy.html

Cloverfield (2008)
They made a viral website, in the website there are pictures... so people would believe that film is real.

Website: http://www.1-18-08.com/

The last Exorcism
Tricking people through Chatroulette.
www.Chatroulette.com

Low budget film marketing campaign are films that have a very low amount of money to spend in the making of advertisement and in the making of the film.

High budget film marketing campaign are films that have a very high amount of money to spend in the making of advertisement and in the making of the film.

High Budget Marketing Campaigns

• High budget film will have a lot of of money to buy props and to hired actors for the making of the film and that that film will be good.
• High budget marketing campaign is when the company spend a lot of money for promoting the film before the film comes out in the cinemas.
• Spider Man 3 had a budget of 260 Million Dollars, it is an interesting film because a lot of people went to watch it.
• Avatar is also a good film because a lot of merchandises and a lot of people went to watch it and it had a budget of 237 million Dollars
• Titanic is a good old film and everyone knows about it and it was promoted because it was a real life story and people felt sad it had a budget 200 Million Dollars

Low Budget Marketing Campaigns

• A low budget film normally have a very low budget, could be as low as £100, home films normally have a very low budget.
• Low budget film marketing campaign are films that have a very low amount of money to spend in the making of the film.
• Paranormal Activities: because they used one place to film it and they only needed some furniture and actors.
  The Blair Witch Project: because they filmed it in a forest and they did not have to pay to use the place.
• They might want to make a more profit than loss, they do want to use more money to make the film because they want to earn a lot of money when it is released.
• It seems to be best for people who like watching reality movies, serious movies, normal movies (no superheroes etc..)

Film Marketing Research

1.  Film Marketing is anything that is used to advertise a film and gives some information to the audience, e.g. Trailers, Posters etc.
2. Film Posters are posters that people use to advertise a film, this could include the name of the film, pictures, scenes and the age rating.
   
         
3. A film trailer is a short video that people use to advertise a film and show the audience some scenes from the film, They also tell the audience what the film is about. The Film trailer I have chosen is very good because it shows a lot of information and includes most of the best scenes in the movie.
   http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4219471385/
4. Film Merchandise are the objects that are sold in shops that have something to do with the film. e.g. Mug, Posters, T-Shirts, Toys.
                 
5. A film website is the page people would go on to find out what the film is about and to look at the trailer and find out other things about producers/ directors etc...
   website: http://www.steelgetsreal.co.uk/
6. Film companies make apps for phones, the iPhone has many apps, film companies make games for the iPhone. e.g. Iron Man, Fast and Furious, Star Wars. Apps also make the film companies money because people would buy the games and the companies receive the money.
7. 
   
   The title is In Time and they have different things in the poster that represent time, (Numbers), The colours are black and white with light green to represent the numbers and make them stand out from the rest of the poster, the font looks like a digital time font and that links to the movie name, it shows the two main characters in the story and shows the actors names under the Film Title.

Course Work Markscheme

A: Wording and images are CREATIVE and EXTREMELY APPEALING to aSPECIFIC audience. The final product is EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE andPROFESSIONAL and shows an EXCELLENT LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL.The audience know EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. MANY CONVENTIONS have been used

B: Wording and images are IMAGINATIVE and MOSTLY APPEALING to aSPECIFIC audience. The final product is VERY APPROPRIATE and MOSTLY PROFESSIONAL, and shows a VERY GOOD LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL.The audience have a GOOD IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product.MANY CONVENTIONS have been used.

C: Wording and images show SOME IMAGINATION and have SOME APPEAL to aSPECIFIC audience. The final product is MOSTLY APPROPRIATE and shows aGOOD LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience have SOME IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. SOME CONVENTIONS have been used.

D: Wording and images show UNDERSTANDING of the product and TRIES TO APPEAL to an audience although perhaps unsuccessfully. The final product isQUITE APPROPRIATE and shows a BASIC LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILLS. The audience have SOME IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. SOME CONVENTIONS have been used.

E: Wording and images show SOME UNDERSTANDING of the product but haveLITTLE APPEAL to the audience. The final product is only PARTLY APPROPRIATE and shows LITTLE TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience haveLITTLE IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. VERY FEW CONVENTIONS have been used, IF ANY.

Analysing Pro Advert 2

Advertising PS3

Analysing Pro Adverts

Analysing L'Oreal Paris

Evaluation of my Advert

I think my work is at a B standard because i understood what I was doing and I Linked most things to the product, product type and company.

I could improve by adding more explanation to my analysis to make it clear to the audience.

Analyzing my Advert

My Advert Analysed
I think my analysis is at a C grade because I didn't include enough information in my analysis and I need to Be more specific about what I am analyzing.

My Advert (iPhone)

I used Photoshop to make this advert, the tools I used were Text tool, Lens Flare, Pen Tool, Screen Effect, Lighting Effect.

My idea of an Advert

• Iphone 4s.(Phones)
• I would have famous celebrities that people really like.
• Apple, because it is one of the most popular technology companies in  the world.
• Dark but shiny colours because the phone comes in two different colours. (Black & White)
• People ages 14-40 because they would be interested in these types of technologies and they would know how to operate their phones.

Advert for Phone

Iphone 4s: APPLE

Very good with apps and communications.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/

This advert shows what you could do with the Iphone 4s.

Mainly for Teenagers and adults because it is very good for communication and businesses, it has many apps to choose from and most of them are very entertaining.

Blackberry Torch 9800: RIM

The torch is very good for communication but it has a lot of problems.
This is mainly for people who like communicating with people in other countries or if they don't want to spend money while taking to people because there is something called Blackberry messenger.

Conventions Of Adverts

• Slogans: are always catchy, this makes people want to know more about the advert.
• Logo: if a logo looks good people would be interested in the advert.
• Colours: if the advert was about something scary the colours would be dark but if it was bright and colour it might be a happy movie.
• Picture: Something to do with the product.
• Font: Fonts than link into the advert, Digital for Technology etc..
• Heading: good, big, catchy headings.

Advert Analyzing

Everyone would like this if they like to eat crisps, mainly young people, teenagers and some adults.

The say that it makes you breath so hot you can use it for a hot air balloon, this is good for people
who like hot and spicy crisps.

The colors in the advert signify spicy on the Pringles symbol (red), some fire colors and really bright colours to show a bright day.

Advert Experiment

Before:

After:

Photoshop Experiments: Woman face edit!

Before:

After:

I changed the color of the eyes And Lip by using the pen tool and going on "image-> Adjustments-> Color Balance"

How I Am Going To Be Marked!

Media Level Ladder

Lady Edit :D

Before:


After:

Teenagers

Intro

I chose teenagers because i think that the media makes a lot of stereotypes about them, for example they represent teenagers as violent people/ Drug dealers/ Thieves etc... I think they are wrong because not all teenagers are the same and they want people to get scared of teenagers and hate them.

Section 1- T.V:

My first example is from the T.V show Inbetweeners, the person I'm going to write about is Mark Donovon.

He is very violent and he bullies people in his school, especially new people that are smart and ugly.

He deals drugs, he is also very violent, he threatens people that he is going to kill them or beat them up.



Section 2- Film:

This is another example of stereotypes that define violent and drug dealing teenagers.

In the film he is shown as a boy that drug deals to get money and he pretends he is violent but in the end of the movie because he gets into a fight.

Section 3- News:

The Article I chose is from the Link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/behind-the-stereotypes-the-shocking-truth-about-
teenagers-421295.html

Its a very negative stereo type about teenagers, I think this is not true because not every teenager is the same, just like adults everyone have different views about them, but that doesn't mean they are true.

This is just a way to scare people and making them think that teenagers are very violent but the truth is everyone has their own personalities, everyone chooses who they want to be.

"Watch out! - I am from the evil and hated generation. Believe it or not, not every single teenager around my age goes around beating up people and smashing up cars. Can you seriously claim that today's youth are that much worse than the mods and rockers of the former generation? My generation never gets a positive thing said about them - GCSEs for example - we do better than the past generation and the courses must be getting easier - obviously. Is it really any wonder then certain youths rebel?"

Section 3- Conclusion:

I think that the media just makes stereotypes about teenagers that describes teenagers in a bad way, I don't like this because I don't want to be walking somewhere and seeing people thinking bad things about me when I'm not what they think I am.

News Corporation Research

Rupert Murdoch created News Corporation  in 1979. News Corporation was created as a holding company for News Limited.

The News Corporation makes films, news, TV, Internet, Magazines, Newspapers, Books.

BBC Research

1. BBC was setup on the 1st of January 1927 by John Reith.
2. BBC Stands For British Broadcasting Corporation.
3. The Purpose of BBC is to give people programs and services that inform and entertain them.
4. The BBC is funded by the television licence fee.
5. They use the Internet, T.V and Radio.
6. There are about 25 channels:
   BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3, BBC 4, BBC News, BBC Parliament, CBBC, Cbeebies, BBC Iplayer, BBC England, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, BBC Northern Ireland, and BBC America Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 5 live,5 live sports extra, 6 music, radio 7, Asian Network.
   
7. I think it is important to have PSB in Britain because  if we didn't have them people wouldn't know much about whats happening in the world.
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Assessment- September 13th

Grades-D
Strengths-I'm good at the media language section.
How to improve- Work harder and think about my answers and I need to improve on the Audience Section.

My Media Interest

Movies: Horror, Comedy, SciFi.

Saw

Paranormal Activity

Attack The Block

Avatar

Aliens Vs Predators

Shaun of the Dead, Paul

Hangover

Anuvahood

Videos/Shows: Youtube videos, Trailers, Reviews, T.V Shows.

Games: Shooters, Adventures, Racing, Fighting, etc...

Music: Hip-Hop, RnB,

Social Networks: Facebook, Skype, Youtube.