Main Ideas And Genre Of Film Trailer.

Why do people watch Thrillers and Romantic films?

When making film trailers this is a very important thing to consider I order to connect with the audience.

Thriller:

When watching a thriller, most people go through the same thought processes, ‘what would I do in this situation’ ‘who do I relate to the most in this film’. Also when i looked into what people enjoy about the film its self, the replies are ‘I enjoy the tension of the film’ ‘I like to be able to place my self in the situation of the victim and see how I would react’. What makes a thriller successful is the ability to interact with the audience and cause them to be in some way affected by the film.

Romance:

This is a highly popular genre of film that many people enjoy. This is because the main conventions of the film are, the love story, an obstacle to overcome, and the happy ending. However the main reason why people like to watch romance films, is because they like to put them self in the position of the actors, and wish they could live that life, it helps the audience escape into a world that gives people hope. Also the women enjoy watching this type of film because of the male actors that always are featured in romantic films.

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.

Plot with the application of the Todorov theory:
The state of equilibrium is set as the husband believes that the relationship is going well with his wife. The disruption of the equilibrium occurs when the wife cheats on the husband with the husband’s boss. The recognition of this disruption would be when the husband reads the texts on the wife’s phone, and realising she was having an affair. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption is when the husband takes matters in to his own hands and seeks vengeance against his boss. The return of a new equilibrium is the boss losing everything, his job as well as his freedom. 

Uses and gratification theory:

This theory understands the mass communication; the theory focuses on the audience its self and what they will do with the media they have been given rather than what media will do to the people. The theory sates that the audience them self are not passive but take an active role in interpreting the media they have seen and applying it to there own lives. There are three main reasons why people consume media, firstly is ‘personal relationships’, this is where the audience will use the media for emotional interaction, for example, using soap operas in everyday life (east enders). Secondly will be the ‘personal identity’, this would be where the audience will construct there own identity from the actors in a certain piece of media text. Finally ‘Surveillance’ this is where the audience will gather knowledge from watching the cartain type of media text. 

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.

Final post of AS Media studies.

Matthew David Archer
Candidate number: 7017
Centre number: 17131
School name: John F Kennedy School

Chosen brief/ print: Music magazine Front cover, Contents page, Double page spread.

Main task: Final designs

Front cover

 

Contents page

Double page spread

Main task: Evaluation and audience feedback

Evaluation:

Audience feedback:

Main task: Photo shoot preparation and pictures I took

When I begin to create my final designs of the magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread I will need to have my own pictures to use in these parts of the magazine, so I have prepared a plan in which I can use to help me to produce these pictures, it is shown below:

These are the photos I have taken and the reason I have used them or not:

Main task: Contents page mind map ideas

For our main task we had to also create a contents page, to help me with the creation of this I have made a contents page mind map as you can see below. In this mind map of different ideas I have some things that I feel necessary to be included in the contents page, like big bold text, this will help to draw the reader into the magazine and make them want to read on. Also a suitable font will be needed, this is to ensure the reader can read the righting very easily; this is to help them process the information on the page quickly in order to minimize the change of the reader losing concentration on the magazine. The main thing however that is needed on the contents page is many different things to choose from, in other words, more content, this will interest the reader and cause them to want to read on and buy the magazine.