Opening Post Of A2 Media Studies.

My name is Matthew Archer and this year in A2 media studies I have chosen to create a film trailer.

The film genre we have chosen is a romantic thriller. I will be completing this task with two other students, Luke-Anthony Bailey and Patrick Gibbons.

The film we have chosen to produce will be a thriller and will offer a new type of story. It involves a wife who is cheating on her husband, and the husband being oblivious to this. However the person who the wife is seeing apposed to her husband, kills her because he has a shadowed past of being cheated on him self. This film will effectively challenging the audience’s idealisms on relationships and how justice should be served.

Target audience - Our target audience will be from the age of 15+, this is because this film appeals too many different aspects of genre, and the film will include the romance of a relationship, but at the same time the thrill of an affair. This is coupled with the shock of murder and the mystery of who committed this murder.

Plot - Wife and husband are happily married, however what husband doesn’t know is that the wife has been having an affair with the husbands boss, a twist is that the wife does not know that the man she is cheating on her husband with is the husbands boss.

Twist (selling point) – the person the wife is cheating on has a past experience of being cheated on by his wife, and he now goes hunting for wife’s willing to cheat on their husband, and brutally murders them.  Also the man the wife is cheating on her husband with is the husbands wife, and the wife has no idea about this.

Trailer – Trailer begins with the husband and wife happily married, then cuts to wife and man she is cheating on her husband with, slow cuts at the beginning allow the audience to establish a connection and work out what the situation is between three characters. cutting in-between these two scenes begins to speed up coupled with the increase in sound,  there is a loud bang as a plate/vase is smashed and dark scene is introduced. The camera pans over to reveal a knife/gun/dead body. This helps to create a cliff hanger and create tension for the audience and cause them to wish to view the film.

Film institution – BA productions, a new and upcoming film production company who specialise in thrillers, founded in late 2011, by Matthew Archer and Luke-Anthony Bailey. This will help us to create a new image for our film, showing the audience a new genre of film and entertainment. We help to connect the audience with the film as some of the characters can relate to the audience.