Comedy

Crime Cliches

Action and Adventure Cliches

Questionnaire results

The questionnaire we gave out to an audience aged 10+ the results are as followed with each questions results being shown in chronological order:

• 1. 10 - 20 =  8   21 - 30 =  4   31 - 40 =  3   40+ =  5  

• 2. cinema =  8   TV = 4   DVD =  5   Internet = 3

• 3. Action = 12  Romance =  2  Comedy = 4   Horror = 1

• 4. 0 = 3   1-5 =  10  6+ =  7

• 5. Yes =  15   No = 5

• 7. Yes = 18 No = 2

The results indicated a large amount of movie viewers who are aged 10 - 20 are going to the cinema to watch films followed by DVD release; most of which watch at least 5 movies w eek and the trailer does have an impact on whether or not they watch the film being shown. Our trailer will incorporate action cliches that will drawn in an audience so that they will want to pay money to see "The Pursuit".

western

Django Unchained, Directed by Quentin Tarantino and staring Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. The plot revolves around  a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner,With the help of his mentor. The fact that it is directed by Quentin Tarantio will naturally bring in people who are fans of his previous films; Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, the same way a people will go and see Steven Spielberg's new film purlely because of his name and reputation for creating big budget Oscar winning films.

The music in this film starts with a well known country artist Jonny Cash with one of his songs that has got alot of publisty considers its age and the fact that Cash is now dead, inspiring the Jonny Cash Project, the solemn mood of the song creates a serous atmospher for the film and coupled with the word of the song "aint no grave can hold my body down" depicting the horrors of slavery  As this is playing in the back ground you can hear the diagectic sounds of chains as rattling as an extrem close up of the chains around black slaves feet creating the sound, again highlights a key theme in the film and also helps set a time period for the viewers  The juxapostion between the solemn music and the jazz music that takes its place creates a sudden change of mood and allows the film to take a different course than the audience was expecting the trailer.

the dialog in the tailor is more than you would expect to see in a typical western film, where stereotypically a minimal marketing techneaque is applied to draw the audiences attention to the action scenes whereas in this trailer there is much more emphasis on the story line beginning explained. one possible reason for this different style could be that in recent years the genera has very much been neglected by the industry with only a handfull of films fitting with the conventions of the western genera being made with the most recent example being "cowboys vs alians" staring danial crage and Harrison ford, despite the big names associated with the the film it was ultimately wasn't considered a comershial success by only just making a profit; suggesting that the audience for westerns just isn't there. on the other hand if anyone can make a film a success it would be one of the most well known directer`s in the industry Quentin Tarantino, this would draw in a large number of people who like his work and also for Tarantion's trademark violence and gore that isnt as much associated this the genera  this gore aspect is highlighted in the dialog close of the end of the tailor "kill white people and get payed for it, sounds good to me".

possible footage- Austraila

the footage above was taken during the festival of lights organised by a local art institute. To create the effect shown on buildings and landmarks they use high powered projectors and project the image on the the buildings. The footage was taken when i was walking around and so i was reliant on my hand keeping still which was very hard with the type of camera i was using, i think most of this footage taken would be hard to work into the trailer but it will still be kept as an option just encase it does fit, as i would really like to include the last video in the night time footage as i feel it is very impressive piece of art but sadly not what we are at the moment looking for in our film.   



The two videos above were taken on a ferry that crosses the harbor. again it was taken by hand and it was very ruff due to a storm that was coming in (you can see some of it in the video below)
but i feel if we edit it correctly it would work really well to highlight the drastic change in locations stereotypical of an action film.  




Taken on a local beach the morning after the worst storm of the year, a lot of background wind but that can be edited out. just thought it was impressive and could work in a fast pace sequence.

possible footage for my film - america

 a night sceen of a road with traffic blurring the other way would work well as a trasition shot, and also as away of showing time scale.




showing a desert locaton could possibily fit into our film but showing differnet location; a sterotype of the action genra and also work as a fast paced shot. the footage is shakeing so would have a be very short to try and avoid this being shown


the footage here was taken at the Hover damm a impressive landmark due to the scale of it, it has been used in action films and so the audence may be able to recognice it, if not then it is still a impressive shot and could be easy to work in to the trailer.



this iconic Las Vagas landmark was something a took party just to remeber it, i dont think it would very well in a action film and would be hard to work it in with the footage we plan on taking.

super hero

The genre of this film is superhero, this is known to me and the audience as Spider Man is a prominent film character with 3 recent films about this comic book charterer. The Narrative of this trailer moves in chronological order; starting with the memory form when his parents leaving him for and unknown reason the loss of the main characters (peter parker) is a common theme throughout the trailer and is shown to be one of the unique selling points of the film as the question of his parents has not be explored in the other films.  by going back and focuses on his younger life experiences, whereas in the previous film the focus is on peter at an older age; with a job. Another unique selling point to the film is that it explores different characters than in the older film e.g Gwen Stacy. On the other hand the director or the cast is not mentioned this suggests that they are not well known enough to be considered a good way to sell the film whereas with over films the cast and director are a key tool for selling the film

Target audience would mainly be males aged between 12 and 25, i have come to this conclusion for a number of reasons, firstly the film is rates a 12A which suggests that it would be suitable for people of the age to 12, secondly the film is a very recent re-make of the spiderman franchise  - mainly male, young boys 12-25

 The same instruments are used thought, slow to start off with to evoke emotion and also to show that this is not a part in the film where the viewer should be expecting the traditional fast paced fight scenes, the music cuts to silence with the use of a loud drum to show that this is a keep point in the film; where he is being bitten by the spider. the trailer ends with the traditional spider man theme music the the public associate with the past spider man franchise suggesting that they want to feed of the last films popularity. The pace starts of slow and graduates with the help of music to  

Dialogue"we all have secrets, the ones we keep, and the ones that are kept from us"

Voice over there is no specific voice over that is commonly associated with the super hero franchise e.g  Michael Caine (Alfred) voice over in The Dark Knight where someone connected  to the main charter talks throughout with The Amazing Spiderman the voice over is only used at the end "we all have secrets, the ones we keep, and the ones that are kept from us" which suggests that this theme of a secrets plays a major part in the plot of the film.

Credits and inter-titles with "Columbia pictures" the only peace of production information int he trailer shown centrally in the film (just after the spider bite) which suggests that the production company want to make sure they are known for this film but also by not putting any cast member or direction could mean that they are not well known enough to make people want to go and watch the film on the other hand it could suggest that 

Musical- les miserables analysis

the trailer starts with introducing the production company; Universal and working title, both are big budget house hold names. Universal Studios franchises include Jaws, Fast and Furious and most recently Anna Karenina which genre is also associated with musical. the use of universal being the first thing you see in this trailer lets people know that is has has allot of money put into the production of this film and so from this you can gather that it is also going to have some big names also attached to it.

The fist image you see is a picutresk long shot of a mountain  this would appeal to people between of 50+ as it would show that the film has some amazing locations in different  landscapes something that the stage show could not bring to the telling of the story. 

The trailer in many ways is reflective of a very traditional trailer in terms of shots used to introduce the actors, the screen shows the traditional font associated with the the musical fades out then has the actor mentioned making some movement towards the camera an example being when Huge Jackman`s name is shown on the screen the next shot you see is him turning toward the camera. This is an old traditional techniques not often seen in today`s trailers due to the fact that they are trying to be different to attract attention for being different, the fact that this trailer has not tried to be different suggests that its target audience is 50+ i have come to this conclusion because people of an older generation would feel more inclined to see something that they feel they is closer to the films they used to watch. Another reason why this film trailer would appeal to people aged 50+ is that they have drawn attention to the fact that the director of this film Tom Hopper is also the directer of "The Kings Speech" a film that did amazingly well both critically and commercially with that age bracket.

"I dreamed that god would be forgiving" 

The trailer is set to the backing of a single song with the footage shown fitting to the song, one of the reasons why it is not a traditional film trailer where they create the music to fit the footage being shown. this different technique is effective in reiterating the point of the footage and also to juxtapose what the song is saying; an example is where the song line is "i dreamed that god would be forgiving" and the corresponding image is of a man working in chains in very harsh conditions. this juxtaposition works to show the theme of hardship, poverty and religion shown at various points in the trailer.

A birds eye shot is used to show the conformity within the nunnery and to highlight that they are all the same by shearing the same identity and work as a unit together (they get up from the table at the same time) this also works in giving back ground information of what the life of one of the lead characters life was like being and how it is now. another interesting shot used in this trailer is a mix between a pan and a high angle shot, this effect of starting up high to show what it is like behind the barrier and then panning down to a close up of the peoples faces creates both questions in the viewers mind; why is there conflict?, and crates dramatic effect by using the high angle to show how this conflict is effecting everyone and also how it has effected one person and in doing this creates the real essence of war. 

rom com genre analysis

conventions of the rom-com genre include;

• - romantic music
• - two protagtionist`s; a male that fallin love with the female
• -sometimes there are two male`s and one female that fight for the love of that female
• -lots of red/pink to represent love, white could also be used to show purity
• -often starts with a voiceover with some music along with it introduceing the charactures
• -usually based on females point of veiw
• -target audience of 13-19
• -set in urban area`s, in work places, apartments or schools
• -female charecter is normaly herself and falls for the clumsy guy
• -a happy ending
• - couple brake up and get back together

some films that adhere to these conventions