Planning Promotional materials Part A

Step 1   (* where they link)

Homepage

a mystery over the disappearance of a girl’s boyfriend. The disappearance, causes anger, irritation and resentment between all of her friends and drives her to someone she never thought she could become.

- Promotional Poster

* Technical Brief

  - Synopsis 

     Blaire is a teenage girl who one day wakes up to the news of her boyfriend, Dan missing. She then goes on a journey to try and discover the truth behind his disappearance but it may have been better if she never tried...

    

  - Credits

Editing Camille Chen

 

Actors 

 

Blaire       Abbey Bayliss

Serena      Stephanie Rutharford

Extra        Clara Hwang

Nate         Jarrod Harkin

Dan          Mitch Bayliss

**Characters 

Blaire: Blaire is the main character of the film and the story is set from her point of view. Normally she is a bright, well-mannered girl with a good sense of humour. Although after the disappearance of her boyfriend, Nate, she is driven to an unpleasant person, who turns her friends against her and stops at nothing to find the truth.

Nate:  Nate is Blaire’s boyfriend who disappears (actually dies). He had a loving relationship with Blaire and has always been there for her. He is a romantic and will do anything to make her happy.

Serena: Serena is the popular girl in this situation. She is good friends with Blaire and Nate. She can sometimes get out of hand at parties, and this leads Blaire to believe she has a fling with Nate eve though they didn’t. Serena is loyal, bubbly, outgoing and truly is a good friend.

Dan: Dan is Nate’s best friend, and is also pretty close to Blaire and Serena. He is a kind guy who is nice to everyone. He tries to be there for Blaire after Nate’s disappearance, but she only pushes him away and accuses him for her loss.

Blaire’s Parents: Blaire’s parents throughout the film are mysterious characters and you are always questioning if they were the ones who killed Nate. They are protective of their daughter, but some of their actions are quite questionable.

 

* Other

- Teasers

-Posters

-Music

*See the Film

Practice

Reflets

Genre: psychological
Actors:

Screenplay and realisation
Suki

Original music
Jerome Rossi
Sound design and mixing
Jean-Michel Collet

Voices

Stephanie Debureau
Peggy Martineau
Manuel Martin
Vanessa Mikowski
Jean-Michel Collet
Serge Chambon

translation
Richard Van Den Boom 

Storyline Brief
One year ago,
Thomas Bresson, a brilliant and ambitious lawyer, and Elise, his finacee,
hit a man on the street by accident and ran away.

from this time, every night, Thomas is haunted by the same nightmare.
Haunted by the guilt, Elise warns him
that she can't keep this terrible secret any longer. In a furious frenzy, Thomas begins
his way to Hell.

But his path is to take many turns...

1.    Separately discuss the overall feel developed for each film’s promotional materials (is it clean, crisp and bright or dark, moody and grungy etc.)? Be as descriptive as possible, you could discuss the colours, textures, tone and use of movement in the website to create interest in the film.

2.    For each film reflect on how the film’s website is laid out. Look at the links, font and how the information or promotional materials are presented. Create a ‘tree’ which diagrammatically shows how the pages are linked to each other.

3.    Identify the Target Audience for each site (who are they? what age, interests, etc.) and discuss whether you feel the website is effective in appealing to this intended audience.

4.    Talk about what you like/dislike about the promotional material for each film. Why?

5.    Find a poster or advertisement for each film, save the images in to your folder and insert here. In as much detail as possible discuss the following:

·      The colour scheme: cool, warm, analogous, complementary, sensitive, calming, exciting, vibrant, simple, etc. and how it makes you feel

·      The focal point:  where do your eyes focus and why?

·      Sense of Balance:  Is the advertisement balanced in terms of line, tone, layout?

·      Harmony:  Do all of the advertisements elements (line, tone, colour, texture etc.) work well together to create harmony or a sense of completion

·      Unity: which elements unite or make the advertisement effective eg.  Use of a dominant colour scheme and high contrast to create unity.

·      What is the overall message being communicated about the film through the visual language in the poster or advertisement?

Final Blog Reflection on Film

What did you learn?                                                  What worked well?
What would you change?                                          Overall evaluation/extra thoughts


I have learnt many things from this assignment. Such as the use of different camera angles, lighting and setting, how to use the editing program 'Final Cut Pro' and teamwork. Many of these things have worked well for us as a group to achieve the final product of our films. If we had the chance, I would add more shots into the film to emphasize further some important moments and set a base music in the background so that the sounds edited in would flow better. Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything suitable for this film or what I believe would be suitable.

Some things that I have done within the film to hopefully achieve certain things is that at the beginning in the first scene where our main character wakes up the sudden scenes where it you see stripes were meant to be a sign that something will show up soon or that something is missing that something definitely is wrong.
There are certain areas where there is no music at all and I was hoping to do this so that the audience would concentrate on what is being said and hopefully these sudden breaks are not too obvious to the person who watches for the first time, tho it maybe obvious in the second viewing xP There is also a slight build up right after the news is broken to the main character about her boyfriend then a sudden stop to emphasis the importance of this news to the main character.
The whole  film was made into black and white to avoid the different lighting within the film that makes a certain scene seem out of place and the scenes from the main characters memories have been changed to a different colour than just black and white in accordance to the change to the scenes that were coloured.
In the ending, after the scene where the main character was hit there are reverse scenes of all her memories that she has recovered and that she has pieced everything together and then we see her shocked faced before the whole thing ends. This was meant to kind of leave the audience hanging at a climax and think 'what's going to happen next?'.

 It was a very enjoyable experience in the production of this film despite all the problems and how time consuming it was. Even though I have not handed in a film that is exactly how I have imagined to be like, I am still very satisfied with its current state and wouldn't regret anything.