Analysis of Teaser Trailers...

Alice in Wonderland

This is an adaptation of the original Disney Film, again being created by Disney. At the beginning of the trailer the memorable disney castles comes up, which immediately indicates that its a family film and also that it's going to be a "magical" type of film. The trailer shows parts of the actual film, this drags an audience in as they use a lot of enigmas. Non-diegetic sounds of music throughout; starts of calm and as the trailer goes on it gets faster and louder, this builds suspense which a lot of teaser trailers do as it is the first thing to attract an audience to the film. The trailer shows all of the memorable characters (Alice, the Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts etc). It also shows that the film will be much different to the first film. You can alos tell from the trailer that Alice is much older than she is in the book or the first film whic gives a sense that the film may be trying to capture more than a very young audience. There are a lot of faster cuts and also some slower ones with fade ins and outs. There are titles during the trailer with the memorable phrase from the first film "You're late for a very important date"; the titles also mention Tim Burton (the director) and the main actors (Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway) this can draw in an audience because they may like the actor.

Digital Tecnology

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I used digital technologies in the research of my portfolio by analysing the opening scenes to films in a similar genre that I wanted to use for my film. I did this using DVD's and you tube.

In the construction of my film I used digital technologies, using a camera and microphone. Also I edited my film using a computer programme.

Starting A2 - Representing your school

We have started a new practical piece in which we have to make two films. We have to present our films in two different ways, one is to "show off" the school, all the positive things about the school: children in lesson, sports, studying etc. And the other is to ask for fund so that the school can make improvements: decorating and fixing.The positive film is for the parents to see and for children deciding which secondary school to go to.
I will be filming with Matt Scott as it is good to get second opinions.

Synopsis - The Good Girl.

For my coursework I have decided to base my film on teen life. My film is called The Good Girl. It is about a girl whose brother died in a car crash and two years on, on her life has been turned upside down. Her parents split up, after her dad lost his job; her sister didn't talk, to anyone and now Beccy (the main character) had to help everyone re-build their lives. She was a good daughter, a good friend and a good student but not being able to talk about her brother was getting to her and she starts to steal...it didn't matter what she stole as she would just put it in a box under her bed but stealing was a release, it made her feel better so she didn't want to stop.
This film is a hybrid genre, part rom-com and part drama, she has to show the new boy round the school and likes him straight away bt her 'friend' likes him too.
In the end she confesses to her stealing and returns it all, also she ends up with the boy...happy endings do come true.

Preliminary Task

The Good Girl - Evaluation

My film challenged forms and conventions of real media products, as most films begin with music. Although all films begin differently they mainly all start with music, for example: Love Actually, Closer, Mean Girls. My film begins with the main character saying her first line “two years ago my life was turned upside down, I am going to tell you my story”. Although, this is similar (developed) to the beginning of Mean girls and Juno where the beginnings of the films are narrated by the main character of both films. Also, my film ‘flashes’ through time which a lot of film don’t do, they start at the beginning of a story.
I feel that the type of intuition that would distribute my film would be a smaller company such as working title as it is a British film. And although working title is part of universal I believe that the film is more likely to attract a younger audience (teens to young adults) and is more appealing to a British audience than to an American audience. Working title would be good for distributing this film for that reason, even though the film would be shown in America it is for a small social group that enjoy this genre.
To attract an audience the audience to this film it has to relate to the audience so as it is about a teen girl in trouble, teens are likely to see the film. Also the genre, the genre for this film is a hybrid genre, a mix of rom-com and drama. This will attract certain audiences, mainly female and young, which is who I aimed this film for.
From making this project I noticed that camera angles and genres are a crucial part of making the film work, as is editing. I found the editing more difficult than the filming as the software was hard to understand at first. Also all of the different effects that can be used in the film was a main part to make the film flow, I chose to use simple effects to make the film run through smoothly.
Looking back at my preliminary task I have found out that it is more difficult working on your own as oppose to in a group where people in the group can act and you can all do what is needed to be done a specific times. Also I have learnt about editing the film and adding effects to make the film look better as in the preliminary task our group did not use any effects.