For this task, as well as creating the teaser trailer, I need to create a film poster and film magazine cover. For the magazine, I will use what I have learnt from the creation of my school & music magazines (from AS Media). They will be similiar in that there will be a main subject or subjects on the cover which the bigger text will be about and then other features (smaller/lower profile). I will also look at film magazine covers to learn how features are presented, how much detail is on the front, etc…
For the film poster, I will look closely at film posters, research into them and save from the internet so that I am familiar with everything that is on them (conventions) and to see how to make them look good, draw in the audience, etc…Since I do not know yet what the drug type will do, I will have to develop this idea & do the research on film posters before coming up with ideas of what is going to feature on my poster
My film will be about a new drug that does something. The effects of this drug will strongly affect characters in this film and other characters around them.
A drama film that I personally own is Mariah Carey’s “Glitter”. ”Glitter” is a romantic music drama film about an aspiring singer called Billie Frank (played by Mariah Carey) who gets a deal as a backing singer with her friends Louise (played by Da Brat) & Roxanne (played by Tia Texada) for a bad singer called Sylk (played by Padma Lakshmi) but when Timothy (played by Terrence Howard) discovers how good Billie is, he uses Billie’s vocals instead of Sylk’s and she mimes/takes credit for it. However when a popular DJ called “Dice” (played by Max Beesley) comes to see Sylk and congratulate her on the improvement in her vocals, Sylk, Billie, Louise & Roxanne are asked for a picture but Sylk says that they don’t matter. This angers Billie so she walks out singing “All My Life”, showing to “Dice” that it was her voice, not Sylk’s. Dice then goes after Billie and later gets her out the deal with Timothy by promising to pay him lots of money and they start recording together. Her 1st track “Didn’t Mean To Turn You On” is a success in the clubs and Billie/”Dice” meet with record companies, signing with a major. Billie is very successful and her & “Dice” fall in love, but things go wrong when the record company wants things their way (wanted her to wear very little, and get rid of her friends as backing dancers, etc… in her first music video for “Loverboy”), causing complications including “Dice” not paying Timothy because of all the problems that have risen. All these situations challenge the emotions of Billie and “Dice” as they have a big argument, have threats from Timothy, don’t have the album the way they want it (the record company tells her to work with other producers), etc…And although “Glitter” is not similar to the film I will be doing, it is a drama so will have emotions of the characters challenged, from positive to negative. Also I have seen soap opera’s so I know how characters can be emotionally challenged.
I have decided for my teaser trailer of a film to be on the genre of drama (or at least the sub-genre of drama) so have therefore decided to do some research on Drama films, looking at what themes they are usually based on, etc…to get an idea of what I am going to do for my film’s teaser trailer. I have also been watching trailers for films at www.cineworld.co.uk but will soon YouTube ‘teaser trailers’ as our task is to create a teaser trailer, not a main trailer. I will do this so that I can see roughly how much detail, etc…are in them
Drama films usually depend on realistic characters dealing with emotions and emotional themes (like TV soaps) so my film will involve a plot that challenges characters’ emotions.
What ‘regulation’ means:
Regulation is the act of controlling behaviour, of societies or people by rules or restrictions. Everything in life has regulations, rules and laws are expected to be followed every day (eg: Don’t murder people)
What the BBFC does:
The British Board Of Film Classification (BBFC) regulates what films can be seen by certain people (eg: under 18’s will not be allowed to see an ‘18′ certificate film). All countries have their own ways of regulating films, some involve censoring (cutting down footage) or certification (eg: 15) and some use both methods. There is concern that films may impact individuals and society in a negative way, which is why the BBFC, MPAA, and other film regulators give films certificates. These concerns are mostly related to Sex, Violence, Swearing, Drug Use, Cruelty (in the making of the film) and Politics.
What the MPAA does:
The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA), like the BBFC, regulate what films can be seen by certain people (eg: R needs people under 17 to be accompanied by an adult over 21 in order to see the film)and they can recommend the cutting of films to raise or lower the rating of films. The MPAA also enforce copyright protection and criminal law.
A teaser trailer in film is a short trailer (advert) which is used to advertise upcoming (to be released) films. Teaser trailers are the first advert for a film while longer main trailers with more detail are released later. They sometimes are released over a year before the film is released (eg: a teaser trailer for “The Incredibles” was released on the “Finding Nemo” DVD- ”The Incredibles” came out 18 months later). Sometimes teaser trailers will feature scenes or alternate versions of scenes that do not appear in the finished film (eg: Pixar). Teaser Trailers are very short, usually lasting between 30 and 60 seconds. They tend to include the title of the film, the main actors and an extremely short bit of the film.