(HERE I HAVE FEATURED WORDS JUST INCASE YOU CAN'T HERE MY VOICE THROUGH THE RECORDING)
The film trailer begins with a monologue like most conventional trailers but i included this to determine that films moral. The non-diegetic music and distorted image begins because i really wanted the audience’s attention through creating enigma.
Shot of 8mm to capture bold colours and bright contrasts to challenge the conventions because most suburban thrillers audiences know what’s exactly what gunner happen within the first few seconds because of the gray scale feel and they really try and over use the tragedy of living in a suburban working class area. I wanted the film to look completely different to its themes so it has more of a surprise when something goes wrong.
The archetypical character is Brain Hurt who is deluded by paranoia and the serendipity he encounters, he’s in charge of the plot, he’s the plot carrier, everything is down to him, and every choice he makes equals the narrative. Well it’s the ‘for every action there’s a reaction’ theory. He takes the innocent friend along with him because he wants success and fortune but mainly the respect he never gets in school, this represents the outcasts of society and the effect it has on them when they don’t have the feeling of belonging they turn to different terms of gain reputation.
Didn’t use mainly locations to not misrepresent the film, establish that the film is a self contacted narrative that studies character and ideological motives.
To catch most audience’s attention, the thing is to strip down everything, like most Hollywood film they contain loads of explosions and fast paced narratives. I find when I go to the pictures not only in art house cinemas but i mainstream multiplex cinemas, audiences wait until the serious situations arises, then they watch the characters reactions so they can relate and identify with the screen. So in this film i stripped away any devises of action or mindless entertainment and thought of the most fundamental idea, then I questioned the audience? It’s almost as if i say, here is a set of characters they find a bag full of money and a single hand gun, what would you do? It’s not only a test of your morals; it’s really an interesting to think about. It even refers back to ancient literature of questioning? Like in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol it says here is a man who hates Christmas and his life is changed by the past, present and future and has a Frank Capra style life change, would your life change by the alteration of time? Even in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet it asks the question would you risk it all for the sake of love? In every story there are questions about actions and demonstrate morals within. So in this film trailer I wanted to show the basics of human nature and just interesting moral story telling but from a different perspective. I just showed deep characters and demonstrated their state of affairs whilst watching audience’s either doubt, consider and question their actions which brings in a level of relation that not many films can really do.
The narrative of my trailer conforms to other real media products though because shows the range of emotions the film has to offer, and how the tension slowly increases as the film progress which represents the film perfectly. As I mention earlier in my blog I find a lot of trailers misrepresent different films. It’s as if they interest different audiences, like if a Hollywood film was distributed and marketed in the spirit of an art house film the art house audiences would go and see it and often be disappointed, its vice versa really. My main focus throughout was to try and create a trailer that was different like my film but actually captures the personality it has.
My trailer basically shows the corruption of money but doesn’t give away the ending just demonstrates offered effect that my targeted audience of the art house cinema will be attracted to because of its mind intriguing appeal.
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My film magazine forms to the convention of real media products first of all because of its variety of fonts used to represent the magazine, magazines often do this to establish that the magazines not all about the same thing, to show it has range and diversity. The photo I had taken was of the two protagonists in the film, i positioned them in the stance that represents each character. For instance i had to character of Brain looking into the gun with a concentrated face to show that he’s fixated with the issue that’s at hand and the jeopardy the character holds. Again the concern one Don’s face illustrates that he’s a anxious character and how he’s turned toward Brain is a look of not only worry but sympathy and how he only wants the best for his friend and doesn’t want either of them to get into trouble.
The magazine is not always trying to conform to real media products because it’s an independent magazine, my biggest criticism of the magazine is that it doesn’t capture that whole independent feel because it’s an independent magazine about independent filmmakers. I included other images to address that the magazine doesn’t just focus on ‘social realism’ despite being the issues title. I emphasised around the green falling money, not only to fit the colour scheme but to show that the colour green on a connotation level represents jealously and presents a dominantly threatening colour. Also the colour green I’ve realise will stand out on most magazine racks in most retail stores because they’re mainly consumed by gossip magazines about celebrities that are targeted at woman so the strong colours are of pink and yellows.
Not only that, the imagery of money will make a natural inquisitive reaction because of the significance it holds in contemporary society, where everything is about money and success which are obviously in most magazine features, such as lottery competitions and the glam of celebrity access, thus reinforcing the dangers in society through the moral of my trailer.
Here my film poster challenges real media products because it contains just a singular bath tub full of blood and money but I took this influence from posters like full metal jacket and fight club that reinforce the theory of less is more. The main reason why I used the imagery of blood stained money was to reinforce the danger money holds and also purely captures the moral and personality of my film.
I also included a review on my poster like I did in my film because I find this attracts audiences because of someone else’s satisfaction, they see some else enjoying it and they want it even more.
I used small over layered images to fit the liquid feel of the blood to represent the different stages and emotions throughout the film, that’s why I featured a picture of the protagonist crying.
Another convention I adapted to was using contrast colours to make the blue title stand out from the red blood stained background. Finally on a polysemic level I chose to pour the blood in the bath to show the cycle element of my theory. Like in my actual film it begins where it ends, this eternal cycle of the corruption of money and I thought the plug whole was a perfect representation of the cycle of my narrative.
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