The institution

The institution we are going to use are touchstone and paramount.

We have used touchstone due to them producing films that are of similar genres as ours and they are well known. Touchstone pictures is owned by walt disney company. even though it is owned by walt disney it is aimed at films that have an older film certificate aswell. this would be how they make their money in producing films. one of the films that are produced by touchstone is pearl harbour.


We have used paramount pictures

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Film certificate

The film certificate 

We have thought about having our trailer at a 15, this is due to we are not having that much violence that it will be classified as a n 18 or sexual content which is an 18. it will have some violence but will not see the violence happening we will just know that it is happening.

we have finally chose as having it at a 15 as we will not be showing lots of violence in the trailer and will have nothing that will be classified as any other.

U stands for universal 

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Target audience questionnaire

I have made up a target audience questionnaire, i have made this up so that then i can find out what typed of people would come to see a horror in the cinemas. this will look into the age, relationship status and also what type of horrors they like to watch . By learning this i can then k now what are the best things to work on to make the trailers successful.

Target audience questionnaire

1.     What is your age  

·      Under 16

·      17-19 

·      20-25

·      26-32

·      33-40

·      40-47

·      47-52

·      53-60

·      60-80

2.     What is your gender?

·      Male

·      Female

3.     What is your relationship status?

·      Single

·      In a relationship

·      Married

·      Divorced

·      Complicated

4.     How many times do you go to the cinema in a month?

·      None

·      1

·      2

·      3

·      4 and over

5.     What is your favourite war film?

6. Would you go see a war film in the cinema or wait until it comes out on DVD?

DVD                  CINEMA               

                         

                         7. what is your favorite thing about war films?

                      

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war film research

War film research

War films target audience

I think for our trailer we can aim it at males and females, but the main audience will be males due to the action content of it. The age range would be 20-80. This is a big age gap due to the trailer could attract young adults due to the action, and the older generation due to they would have more stories of what happened and think about close to their hearts. Also the wars are always playing a part in our lives especially for the fact that they served their lives for us and that is the Moto people think about. Also if we have the film as a release date near remembrance date, the audience may go up as that is what people think of during this time. I think it would attract males more than females as during the trailer we would be seeing more the males preparing for battle and it would be more to heart. The social class that it would attract would be anyone as it can relate to everybody.

War film music – Songs that provide this on you tube – WWII sad song

The music would have to reflect what was going on during the time of the war so slow and full of sorrow, it would have to be that way due to the amount of people losing their lives and how many were still doing their country proud. The music would involve mostly strings and bass to sound like the roll of drums.

I also thought of having the British national anthem either at the beginning or throughout a scene where we can see that they are off to fight or even if we can make a scene where it looks like they are fighting. Just the background of the music maybe no lyrics as this would then add tension of what is going on.

Shots that we can use

I thought of having a shot that looks over a field of poppy’s near the end of the film as this is what we all think of when we think about the war. 

I thought that we could have a three person shot of them sitting them down next to a war bunker that is available in Gillingham. I thought it could be a good idea of where we can film as we can film when it is starting get darker or even n daylight and then change the brightness of the actual footage.

For one of the locations we thought of using the dockyard and fort Amherst. We thought of using them as they were used during the war and would still be intact of its history which would then make it look more realistic.

The clothing of the soldiers will have to be spot on as this is actually what they used to wear and if we want it to look successful we need it to be as close as we could possibly be.

We want to add in women into it as we thought then we can get both genders into the trailer. The women’s costume and hair will have to be spot on as well to add more of an affect.

We were thinking of doing a flashback video of the children learning about their grandparents and even great grandparents. Then as the story is being told we would then go back to the time in the war. This could be quite tricky to do as we need to be able to clearly show what modern day is and what is when they were younger. If we did the flashback situation, I thought of looking at the grandparents telling them the story of when they were upgraded a post and getting a medal of some sort and then we see a sweep of a man in front of the screen and then see a hand putting the badge on their uniform.

We have now thought of having it as a world war three as we can have the modern day life incorporated into to it. this allows us to also push conventions of a war film. for example we thought of having mainly women in the trailer as this shows we are pushing conventions about war, and due to it being in modern day where women have the same amount of power and rights as men compared to back when the wars were.

Film poster research

Film posters have to show the main character/characters within the film.  

Film trailer research

Trailer ideas

The features of a film magazine

The features of a film magazine 

When looking at magazine covers for film i can see that the main person on the cover is the main character in the film. The main character is in costume, with them being in their costume we can see the type of film from what they are wearing.

For example on this total film magazine cover we can see the Robert downey JR. is dressed up as Sherlock Holmes his character in the film. This then makes us know who he is and that he is the main character.

The magazines should cover most of these elements:
puff
plug
the main character
title
background
teaser
date and issue number 

This magazine does not have any puff's with it, the only thing that will really get peoples attention will be Robert Downey JR. or the fact that they are promoting that they have a list of the next 10 movies that are in the process of being made.

puff is the advertisement for something comes with the magazine.for example getting a free poster of robert downey JR. in this magazine.

Plug is the extra material that is in the magazine that will draw peoples attention to buying the magazine.