YOUR FILM POSTER, WEBSITE, FACEBOOK & TWITTER

Portrait film posters

For Evaluation q. 5, you show how your film will attract and address audiences. You and your group undertake 4 activities between you.

• first make a film poster using Photoshop.
• design a film website (not live, just in Photoshop). It will feature the poster amongst other things.
• a Twitter feed for your film
• a Facebook page for your film.

  

  Landscape film posters

YOUR TREATMENT

Reminders about how to write a treatment:
You need to avoid editorial writing when writing treatments and instead speak in an active and present voice. Similarly, you should avoid using words and phrases like

"Next we see" - Don't start sentences with "we see". Tell the audience what they see without introducing your sentence with "we see". 

Instead say:

"Mr. Bugz B and Mrs DJ Spinna stand toe to toe in front of their microphones. Mr. Bugz rhymes and misogynistic rhyme stating "we don't want no ugly girls in here tonight" to which Mrs DJ Spinna retaliates with a rhyme mocking Mr. Bugs unusually large ears. The crowd goes wild. Mr Bugz continues, but with less steam. The insult has touched on a vulnerable part of his identity."
(Source: Lights Film School link here. 

SAMPLE FILM TREATMENT courtesy of Movie Outline HERE 
Notice that the first time that a character is introduced, their name is in CAPITALS.

Film Title: Lilly

It's 2006. The political climate in China is very unstable. When ANNA, the young pregnant wife of an outspoken journalist is left widowed after a vicious assassination, friends whisk her out of the country to sympathetic expatriates in Queens, New York.
In Queens she's given a grim room in the local syndicate head quarters. Anna is lethargic, lost in pain. JON VAN, the charming head of the syndicate comes to see how she's doing, and expresses romantic interest in her. Anna's lack of enthusiasm angers him, but he writes it off to her recent experiences.
Lost in shock and grief, Anna, is placed with JUNE, another widow, who has adjusted to the new life. They share a run-down apartment in a maze of tenement buildings, serviced by a few small markets in a bad part of town. June runs the local daycare center for the working mothers in this closed Vietnamese community.
Anna, now seven months pregnant, is speechless and depressed until early labor forces a bone-chilling howl of pain from her parched lips. The baby is born, Lily, a perfect little girl, but Anna is too deeply distressed to bond.
It's June who holds the tiny girl, and cuddles her.
As the weeks pass, Anna slowly recovers. She starts to ask questions about the new world she's entered. Anna sees the mothers drop off and pick up their children, tension and fear in their faces.When Anna asks why there is so much stress, June explains that everyone owes the syndicate, the local arm of the people who helped Anna escape...
 

EXAM PRACTICE PAPER 2011

You will complete an entire exam practice paper between now and the end of half term.
We will watch the TV drama extract in class and you will finish the analysis in your own time.
We will prepare the essay question in class and you will complete it using the page guidance on the class blog page here.
An outline to start you off is here.

G322: TORTOISE IN LOVE

Our Pinterest of case studies

Today we examine a small independent film as a case study, Tortoise in Love (directed by Guy Browning, 2012) and learn how the BFI's Film Fund for P & A helped distribute it. 

1. Film website http://www.tortoiseinlove.co.uk/ 
2. BFI tells the story of the film READ IT HERE
3. Film Facebook HERE

 

EVALUATION QUESTION 3: DISTRIBUTION

This week your PRODUCTION PREP is to complete evaluation q.3 on DISTRIBUTION:

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• PRESENT THIS IN PREZI EXPLAINING WHICH DISTRIBUTION COMPANY WOULD PRESENT YOUR FILM AND WHY YOU CHOSE THAT COMPANY (their track record)
• SAY WHAT DISTRIBUTORS DO (digital and conventional screenings, cinema exhibition, DVD and other sales) 
• and HOW THEY RAISE AWARENESS ( P & A, film websites with interactivity, TV spots, trailers) 
• EXPLAIN THE RESEARCH YOU DID TO FIND OUT ABOUT DISTRIBUTORS  (FDA, Launching Films, video presentations from this site)
• GIVE EXAMPLES OF CASE STUDIES ( eg Shifty, The Disappearance of Alice Creed. a film by your chosen distributor)

We have already done the work below (on the class blog):
The Film Distributors Association website explains the film industry, distribution and marketing. We study three presentations. Today, INSIDE FILM DISTRIBUTION: PART 2 THE CAMPAIGN Launching Film site here
You watch the presentation again for PREP and write a detailed post in which you present your understanding of the campaign process, ready for your evaluation question number 3. Follow the steps in the presentation; use your own words to present your points but quote where necessary. Give your source (the person and their job title).

REPRESENTATION IN TV DRAMA: THE INDIAN DOCTOR

This week your EXAM PREPARATION PREP is to write up the answers to the following questions, which are starting points for your comments.
The opening episode of The Indian Doctor (BBC1 2012) here
We analyse how the representation of ethnicity is constructed through mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing and sound.

1. How does the soundtrack function? What does the title wording suggest about representation?

2. Whose viewpoint is the audience made to share, and how?

3. How is Indian ethnicity constructed? How is the Welsh community represented?

4. How are Prem and Kamini constructed as outsiders?

5. What does the editing (shot reverse shot; framing, reaction shot) contribute to the representation?

6. Mise-en-scene: how are Prem and Kamini positioned as outsiders through their clothes?

7: Editing: what do the clips from the contemporary film 'The Millionairess' contribute

to the representation of Asians?

8. What does the representation of an Asian doctor by Peter Sellers contribute in terms of racist humour?

9. Comment on the arrival of Prem and Kamini in the village hall during the screening. How is the 2012 audience meant to understand this scene?

10. How is the Welsh community represented?

CONSTRUCTION: SOUND

Soundtrack for thriller film

Royalty free soundtracks: try AudioJungle
for film company ident, look here at a site where you can browse by mood and theme: