YCC 0972 A2

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

RESEARCH: TRAILER ELEMENTS

I have joined the Film Distribution course offered by FutureLearn, which is a 4 week programme created by the Film Distributors Association (FDA).

(CCR1 and )

In the Future Learn website, it also mention about the important elements and the trailer must have:

The title of the film - when does it appear? Straight away? At the end?
Credits - who is credited? All/some of the stars? the Director?
Are there references to other films in the trailer? What are they and why are they there?
How can you tell the genre of the film? What clues are you given ?

It also have a GALLERY OF FILM TRAILERS, so I am able tp pick a trailer and analyse it in terms of all the conventions.

I picked Brightburn trailer to analyse, with the help of documents provided by the FutureLearn

Thursday, 17 October 2019

PLANNING: ADVANCED PRODUCTION INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

We have decided that our genre for the trailer is going to be a thriller horror. However, I recognised that the horror elements is more about scaring the audience with the impact of visual and sound.

There are films that identified themselves as a thriller genre, I distinguished that there are noticeable difference between them. Like for 'Inception' and 'Joker', I found the trailer of 'Joker' is more interesting and it would engage me to watch it. I spot out that probably the film itself still do contains different kinds of genre, 'Inception' is a action, adventure and sci-fi film, where at the same time, it is also identify as a thriller genre.

A screenshot of 'Inception' in IMDb

A screenshot of 'Joker' in IMDb

We have all decided to set our trailer genre to be a thriller, at the same time should not be containing any violent element. We consider that adding violent elements to our trailer would not have a grater impact, therefore we have settled the final genre as fantasy thriller.

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

RESEARCH: SCOOP.IT

I have research film trailers as part of a promotion package. I found it useful to save everything that I found useful on Scoop.it, which is a platform that allows me to create boards of curated content based on topics I have chosen. Scoop.it also enables me to share my thoughts as insights in the comment box. Scoop.it is interactive and offers links that maybe relevant to my research.

Below is a screenshot of my Scoop.it page:

Monday, 7 October 2019

RESEARCH: THE ROLE OF THE DISTRIBUTOR

I researched the role of the distributor through the Film Space, this platform allows me to learn more about what will the distributor do. This website also contains some task that I am able to do. Pictures below are the task the I have done: