Evalutation

In what ways does your Media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real Media products?



My Media products all challenge real Media products. My Media poster does this because I have included all the details that you would find or expect to see on a real Media poster. I have learnt that everything you find on a poster is important if you want to reach out to your target audience. For example if we take a look at the Pineapple express poster, it says "From the guys who brought you Superbad” above the poster credits and since Superbad was a successful comedy film it's letting the audience of the Superbad film know to come and see this movie because the audience might find this film funny because it will have the same kind of appeal to them as Superbad since they are from the same writers. The producers put these lines on the film posters to show how good the producers/directors/writers they actually are. In a small way it's like showing off, if we take a look at James Cameron even though most people know he is not that original and most of the time steals ideas from other stories to include them in his own (Like Avatar wasn't a futuristic rip off of Pocahontas) people can still see him as this "amazing" director because of the film Titanic. All his work after Titanic always included somewhere on his poster "From the man who brought you Titanic", this is a simple way to assure people that this film will be good because of a writer that has had a huge box office hit in the past. This could trick the audience because the new film might not be any good and could be such a letdown but it's still drew people to the cinema. If we look at James Cameron now after the box office smash hit Avatar smart people will know the reason that film did beat James Cameron's last box office hit Titanic is because of the 3D gimmick behind it and it gave people a reason to flock to the cinema for this "amazing experience". The audience knew that you couldn't pirate it or illegally download it because it wouldn't be the same as the Media is making it out to be. From this knowledge of Media I have observed over the years I know what to do for my Media products, especially for my Media poster. I never did use this writing technique in my Media poster because the writers are supposed to be new, even the director is supposed to be a new person in the Film business so that’s why I never used it in my Media Poster. My Media poster is more of a teaser poster since I didn't include that information and that I kept it simple. The reason because I thought I would change the way I did this from last year and to take on different aspects of the Media world. The things I have used from my Knowledge of Media posters is the tagline, what I learnt from my research is that the tagline has to be something catchy, things that inspired my tagline, "Time just flies by" in my poster was the Harold and Kumar sequel and their tagline was “This time their running from the joint” where the word joint has been used as prison and as a joint which they usually smoke throughout the film. My tagline "Time just flies by" relates to the film’s title "Killing Time" where I have used the known phrase for my tagline to link the two lines together. If I was trying to be professional for my film and if I had more time I would have included a song in my trailer which relates to "Time", I do not know of any songs that reference this at the minute but I bet if I had the time I would be able to find one. The tagline would have then been more relevant to my film and I could also use the song to make the film sound comedy like.

My Media Magazine challenges real Media products because I have used something that I learnt from my Media research and that is the magazines layout. I had to be careful that I don't have the same kind of layout like my music poster I did two years ago or it would look like I have not learnt anything about presenting a front cover neatly. The layout is important because the layout, when done right, can be really appealing to the audience. The film magazine EMPIRE always has done this with their front covers because they always are eye catching to the audience. The advantage of doing the music magazine last year is that it has improved my skills at fireworks which made the process of making my movie magazine “Films4You” quicker, I will talk about fireworks more when I start to talk about the technologies I used throughout my coursework. The main thing I had learnt from my research and real Media magazines is that the main featured movie always has a different font in the middle to make it relevant to the film, for example the Dark Knight cover on the Empire magazine is of the Joker and it has a green font to match the style of the film and of the character. On my Media magazine I had a smart looking font which was Red and White. The font was a little bit narrow but neat and the colour Red would match the style of my film which was about the Horror genre. This gives the magazine more of an effect because the film then related to the magazine more and had a bigger impact. The picture I have used on my Magazine poster has a comedy effect which really does show that kind of the film as well as the horror aspect because of the clothing I had the Killer dressed in. I decided to use the ghost face costume because I thought it would fit in nicely with the release of Scream 4 in a few months. I also used it because the comedy that I am using was supposed to look like Scary Movie, this did not happen but the Killers costume still stuck with us because it could show our audience that it is a horror. The reason behind this is because the costume, over the years after Scream was released, has made its self into the horror costume market, including selling really well over Halloween, because Scream was a successful franchise and even lead on to film spoofs featuring Ghost face like "Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth" and the most popular one "Scary Movie". I used a tea set because I got the inspiration for it after watching Tim Burton's "Alice and wonderland", even though it has nothing to do with my film I just thought it would be funny and give off that comedy effect in our film with a plastic tea set. In my Media magazine I used two picture stories; the pictures however were from my Media work over the years. The Hankicheifs new movie was the picture I did for my Music Magazine and the Security sequel is what I did last year for my other Media coursework. I thought I could use these because since it's my last Media coursework doing this it would be nice to include past work and at the same time using pictures instead of wasting time taking more photos.

My Trailer challenges real Media products and the way I have done this is by using all research I did for the trailers and using them to help me create a good Film trailer. The main idea behind my trailer was from the film trailer the Cottage. The cottage, in my opinion, was a great trailer because of the use of the trailers song which was old Mac Donald had a farm. It really fit well with the trailer and it inspired me to borrow ideas from it. One of the main scenes in the teaser trailer was the stairs scene near the end of the film; it featured the main characters running down the stairs screaming. Alex was the person who gives off more of comedy effect in the film because she really contributed to the film and was the person who did most of the dialogue and the one who screamed the most. The stairs scene is sometimes included in horror movies where the main character is running away from the killer down them, I wanted the trailer to relate to them kind of movies and that’s why we did that scene. The scene which was in our opinion like Scooby Doo was the lift scene, which we filmed in the schools lifts. The idea was to have the main characters go in and the Killer comes out of it even though we know he wasn't in the film to begin with. The main characters would be completely oblivious to the Killer following them. It's like Scooby Doo because this usually happens to Shaggy and Scooby when they enter a room. However this scene was never included in the trailer because Saifur who was filming held the camera the wrong way thinking you could turn it around when editing, a common mistake people have made in the coursework, and we could not turn it and never had the time to redo it because of people’s free time. A nice addition to this trailer was the use of daylight savings since it was dark when we filmed, making it look like the characters have been locked in the school and were staying there other night and other nice edition was that it was the week after it had snowed a lot, making it seem like that’s the reason the characters have been locked in. The use of transitions in the film made the trailer look better, including the title cards like "Warner brothers pictures presents" this really gave the film a professional look like in the real trailers. I learnt from real Media trailers that using titles is important because it shows the audience the information that the audience does not see. My trailer was no the original plan the past idea behind my film in the early stages was about a group of friends in the woods and finding a small estate where the Killer lives. Now the obvious problem with this was the location, there was no way we could do the woods since there’s not any near our location, even if there was the other problem is getting people organized to come out to shoot the film. This is unlikely because people are not free all the time and the whole thing would be a waste of time. The idea had to be watered down to set the film in school, a location which is easy to shoot in because this is where we are all the time.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

All three of my Media products are effective by the way I have combined my magazine and poster with my film trailer this is because the products help each other and that is why I have managed to keep the same theme in all three of my products. In my poster I kept the simple neat look that linked into my magazine which was a simple picture of the killer have a tea party. The pictures might not relate to each other but the whole thing is what related the two. The trailer was just a teaser trailer so the idea in general was simple by the way we did it. Most of the scenes in the trailer were just people running around screaming but it worked because of the horror theme I have kept throughout the three tasks.


Thanks to my research I have discovered that most trailers correspond with the poster and at least one magazine that is either reviewing or previewing the specific film. If we look at the Scream franchise every bit of related Scream merchandise along with the movie covers have a picture of Ghost face in the background or the number of the film with a women screaming inside it like the number has covered the photo and it's slightly being showed through the number. A film called Scary movie noticed this and used it for their spoof film of the Scream franchise. The Scary movie films always have the characters from in the film in a movie theater with different weired things related to the film whether it's popcorn, a knife or a "I see dead people" t-shirt. I think the reason being the relating content is so it's more well known the the audience. If the audience get that picture in their head of a film their most likely to be intrigued about it and curious to see it, they might even make them more likely to go to the cinema to see it and bring along their friends setting off some kid of chain reaction. If the audience spotted different pictures of a certain film that don't really relate to one another then the audience will be confused with this, people these days expect the media to guide them to whatever it is their selling. It seems people have gotten used to this over the years as advertising has gotten more creative and interesting playing a big part in peoples life, why go out and search for something when you can let someone else do it for you. The audience depends on this and this is the reason why it's impotent for whatever your selling, in this case a film, to relate to the things which relate to that film.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I have learnt from my audience feedback that my poster and magazine kept the same theme and that they could relate with each other. It seems like most people chose the most obvious answers that I expected them to choose. For my poster I learnt that people would like to see a good picture as the main thing in a poster, this is because posters are mostly pictures with a small amount of text. The poster is the main thing which draws people in look at the poster. If the poster was rubbish and did not meet the audience expectations then it would not be good advertising for the film. Just like the magazine cover the audience also expects so kind of decent layout to make the whole thing look presentable. The reason for this in my Media magazine cover is because with a lot of text and a huge picture on a front cover sometimes things can look abit crowded and won't look as neat for the audience to read. Catching the audiences eye is the main thing I have learnt in my research it is the main thing I had to focus on because that is what it's going to take to make people look at this poster or magazine cover to either go and watch the film or buy the magazine. The things I have learnt for my film trailer is that people expect to be interested by the quality of the editing but also the trailer must show the audience what kind of genre it is. It would be false advertising if a genre is a horror but the trailers make it look like a comedy/horror, It's misleading to the audience and puts people off watching the film or taking any notice of the directors/writers next film.


Questionnaires are an important thing to get information from because they offer the insight into the minds are our potential audience. It's all about what they want to see and what they want the film trailer to offer to please them as they will be the ones watching the trailer and the ones who will pass the poster on bus stops or billboards.

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


In my Media coursework the Main program I used for two of my products was Macromedia Fireworks. This program was vital to my work because it was the main program to edit my pictures and colour font on.  Macromedia is the best software for this that I know of, there is other programs that are probably better but I don't know of any other software like this except for Photoshop. In fireworks I was able to take fonts I had got off "Dafont.com" and colour them in. The problem with Dafont is that you have to pay to use the images, but if you print screen the page and then colour them in from Fireworks it's a way around from paying. We had to use a camera for our photos, instead of the one provided for us in school we used Saifurs camera which was better quality in the images. The camera was easy to use and we managed to get a lot of photos done with it. The next bit of technology we used was a camcorder, we used the one which was provided at school and we managed to shoot no problem with it. The only thing which was a problem was the noise in the background, this was totally unrelated to the camcorder though which means we had no problems with the actual thing.


Another program we had to use was iMovie. This program worked really well and made editing our movies easy. It also took a little while to convert our media movie files on the Mac since our movie clips were all separate since we shot so many scenes.  It had easy navigation on which scenes to cut and how to cut them, same goes for the music files on iMovies and the transitions. There was one more program we used on the mac and that was Handbrake, this was the program we used to convert our files so we could use them in iMovies. As I have stated before because we had so many scenes it took a little while, it didn't help as well that we couldn't convert all of them at the same time but had to convert them one by one.  That was the only problem we had we Handbrake and the only problem we had we the editing. Handbrake displayed a message saying "An error has occurred and Handbrake will now close" every time we tried to convert more then one file.  As I improved my work this problem did not happen as the new camera we had already converted our scenes into MP4 quick time files, this made it easier to improve our work and managed to help us edit and complete our work in three days rather then over a week and a half


In my conclusion I feel like I have improved on what I have done in Media over the years, I've done media since year 10 and every year I learn new things about media that I've never learnt before. As each year progresses I learn about new concepts, camera angels, film ideas, theorists and the media industry in general. This year, four years later, I felt that I had come to the point where resitting this coursework would bring me no new knowledge in Media, I was wrong however as this year I have been able to understand more about how to craft a trailer then I learnt the previous year. I have improved beyond believe and managed to make a trailer which takes concepts from popular films and make them into my own. With my friends help in my coursework, I have managed to complete the three tasks that I was set and have done them the best I could, the trailer is the one I am most proud of because, even though it's no Steven Spielberg material, it is way head in terms of professionalism because of the more careful planning and shooting we did over the time since we got our last mark. My most favorite bit of the trailer is the music I luckily found on the Internet, it is the trailer music for the new Scream 4 film in trailer 2. Overall I think that my improved coursework will be a better installment then the trailer five months ago.

Film Trailer

These are the draft ideas for my Media Trailer. They are the only drafts we did because we knew what idea we were going to go through with.

This is my Questionnaire for my Media trailer.

In my questionnaire I learnt from my audience research that most people would like to see the things associated to the horror genre like weapons and dead bodies

Media Poster

 Final Product

Unlike my Media Magazine there was not much I changed about my poster only the image. The only thing I have is the planning sketches that I made. This is because I knew what I was doing with the Media poster and didn't have to change things around as much.

During my planning I had to figure out what picture I was going to use, even though my ideas were good they were not suited for this project as they wouldn't of looked as good as I would hope. The first idea was to get the characters sticking there heads out of a door so I could of put it on the side of the poster with the info down the side. The second idea was to get the childrens tea set I had and make the killer drink out of it like he was having a tea party however this idea was put towardsa my movie magazine instead because I felt like it wouldn't fit the poster. In my improvment I put a clock in the background to make it relevent to my film title.

This is my Questionnaire for my Media Poster

I learnt from audience feedback that my poster had to be what people liked to see on real Media posters. Things like all the main characters on the poster, the good guys and the bad guys. The genre people went for the most was Comedy, it seems comedy has a better effect on people and most of them do what comedies do and makes them laugh. The Pictures are the main thing that I need to focus on in my poster because that is what people have went for in the questionnaire and is what people expect to see.

The Change in our Films Theme

The major change in my work is the big transition from the Mall cop theme we were going to have for this film to the comedy horror that we have chosen now.

The main reason we changed our idea was that it would be easier to create a teaser trailer for a comedy horror because most of it is showing the audience what's there to be afraid of and show them the comedy aspects of the film were doing as well. The horror will interest the audience while the comedy will keep them entertained while the horror scenes are not in effect.

Even though horror has made it's way into our film ideas instead of the police crime comedy we were going to do, the comedy aspect is still there. Every thing I have researched have all been comedy as well so that part still remains for our film overall.

Our major inspiration comes from the horror franchise called Scream, which has had three films now making it a successful trilogy. The film is now getting a fourth film, 10 years later, to start another trilogy. Neve Cambell will be returning along with Courteney Cox and David Arquette  reprising there roles of Sidney, Gail Weathers and Deputy Dewey.

Another film which we took off is the film Scary Movie which spoofs Scream and other popular horror movies. The did this because we wanted the killer to be funny by his actions and what better place to look then Scary Movie.

Scary Movie closely follows the Scream movies but are really silly and makes fun out of the things in horror movies which they always do. For example Scary Movie has the chase scene from Scream where the Killer is in Casey Becker house, in Scream the actress playing her is Drew Barrymore, Drew is the name of the character in Scary Movie who is being chased at the start just like Casey Becker. In the Scream chase scene, Casey never picks up a weapon when she has the chance, a common thing is horror movies which in my opinion shows the audience how strong a character is (that's probably why Sideny survives because she is a strong female character), in Scary Movie, when Drew sees the Killer coming towards her, she looks to her left and sees a variety of weapons like a dagger, a knife, gun, a hand grenade and one misplaced useless item, a Banana. Drew goes for the Banana out of all the choices and runs.

This is funny because she is picking up something which is useless to her in her situation but I think what the Wayne brothers were trying to get across is "At least she tried" as characters in horror film places them self's in unfortunate situations where they will get killed because they don't think and don't fight. The Wayne brothers do another thing in a scene where Drew is running outside and comes across two yellow signs, one of them says "Saftey" and the other one says "Death". Drew goes for death and runs for her life but is soon killed as the killer stabs her boob and she then gets ran over my her parents while screaming for help.

Media Magazine

First Draft

Second Draft

Final Product

As you can see my magazine cover went through some changes before it reached the final product. Even though drafts one and two are blank it's because we wanted to show where we were going to have everything by using the final product and our plans.

Draft one, in my opinion, looked more retro then the final product. I felt like I had chosen the wrong font for the main title "Films4You". I then decided to change it to a more suitable font but then found out by looking at it that Draft 2 looked too cartoon like. I decided to go with black in draft 2 because I took the picture during that time which made me change my decision because of the black suit that my main character was wearing.

The pictures were hard to get because of how much free time people had, just like the films trailer, the people who said they were going to be the main characters could not do it because of time differences in free lessons. We decided to go with a bunch of people would were free when we were free, so we could easiley take the pictures, however for this picture I took it at home with a family member. I set up the area in my living room using old boxes which came from another family member ordering something online. I felt like it made the picture look more old, like the killers hideout. The comedy aspect in this magazine is easiley seen. I came up with the idea when watching Tim burtons Alice in wonderland with the Mad hatters tea party. I thought this would be a good idea because it would fit in with the title "Killing Time" and it's tagline "Time flied by".

The teaset was just a present that was supposed to get given to someone but ended up being left in the cuboard for months. I decided to use this and not real tea cups to show the comedy like aspect that I want people to know about in the film.

I decided to use the ghostface killer in this film magazine because it would be similar to the Joker magazine cover in empire.

Another smart thing which I have done is used, pictures that I have used in past work. The Hankicheifs, a spoof of the Kaiser chiefs was from our music magazine project 2 years ago in year 12. I have made it so the band is releasing a film documentry about the bands life and tour. The security picture was used a year ago in year 13 for this same project. This time the film is getting a sequel to show that the movies and band are progressing. I thought it would be a good idea to show past creations progressing in there lifes, even though it's not real, it's nice to show that I can use them in a good way to remind people and myself of my last bits of work.

Research for Film Magazines

As part of our coursework, we have to create a magazine front cover with our film being featured as the main story on our magazine. I have done some research on what magazines front covers have got and what we would need to do on ours, it would also help us get ideas.

Film Magazine Front Covers

Premiere Magazine

The Main character of the film magazine is the first thing people will notice because she is also doing an interview for the magazine. It also Talks about other films on the front cover and what the actors and actresses are doing, sort of like film gossip, most of what the writers talk about could be just speculation of what might be happening for a film, for example is a certain actor or actress been rumored for the main role in a film. The Premiere magazine also has light colours which makes the magazine more attractive, Keira Knightley stands out more on the magazine and she should since she is the main actress the magazine will be talking about. The magazine title is partly covered by the main character probably because Premiere don't want to squash there main picture into a small space, you can see that sub headings in the white and yellow font are over the picture as well. They were made yellow and white to stand out of the background colour which is a light orange colour and Keira Knightleys black dress. As all magazines have we can see a price and bar code at the bottom right, this is usually kept in the same place. There are three pictures of this magazine cover, the first one we already can see of the actress Keira Knightley, the second one, which is very small, is the stay puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters and the third picture which is also very small is a picture of Johnny Depp. The second and third pictures link in with the story's that they are about, they are small so the page doesn't look messy since they have already chosen Keira to be the main picture. In my opinion the font used makes the magazine look old and not very interesting, it just looks like a normal font but in bold. Keira Knightley is not in character in the magazine, people who expect her to be in her pirates costume like she was in the third pirates of the Caribbean film, at worlds end, probably because not only is that what people recognize her the most from but also because seeing the picture of Johnny Depp, who was the main character in the Pirates film, makes it look like Premiere are doing something on the film franchise.

Empire Magazine
  

Empire is the second magazine I will be researching and all ready you can see that it follows Premieres style by having the main character at the front of the magazine, the difference with Empire and Premiere is that even though the main character of a film is the main picture on the front cover, Empires magazine manages to have another three well sized pictures on the magazine without making it look messy.  The black background with a small amount of light coming from behind Robert Downey JR makes the white, red and even the odd gold thetas here and there stand out from the magazine. The red especially since it really gives the Empire title a nice effect standing out from the rest. The white coming from behind Downey literally puts him in the spot light which is also what usually his cocky character Tony Stark is like in the iron man films. The three pictures also show whats in store if the reader buys the magazine. We have the reveal of Indy Jr in Indiana Jones 4, the reveal of the prince Caspian actor and the new actor for Speed racer. There's less text then the Premiere magazine, but it's nice to see the magazine not looking clustered with text. The colour scheme also relates to Iron man because Iron mans colours are Red and Gold, plus the white is for the light source that comes from Tony Starks chest. If for example the magazine was about the Joker in Batman the Dark Knight then then font would probably be green, purple and white which would relate to the villain from the dark knight. At the bottom of the page you have the "Plus" section where the audience can see the other stuff which are included in the film magazine. The colours of the font used here are white and red, the white is for the normal font, listing the other stuff which are inside the magazine and the red which is used on"Worlds first looks at" sperates it from the "Plus" section, it proberly didn't use anoother line incase it took up to much room so thats why I think it was included half way inside the "Plus" section. The top of the magazine, above the title Empire, kind of introduces Donwey as it's his first comic adaptation movie, where he started to get the main role of some top movies, the iron man franchise, the sherlock holmes franchise and also playing the funniest character in the film tropic thunder where he dressed up like a sterotypical black guy.

Total Film Magazine

Total Film is the third and last magazine that I will be researching. The first thing you will notice on this magazine is that it follows the same pattern as Empire and Premiere by having the main character of the film your writing about as a world exclusive is blown up on the front page, but I think this magazine has the best effect out of all three of the magazines because it shows Max Payne's gun coming out of the right corner of the magazine kind of like a 3D effect. Max Payne is the main story of this magazine, the movie is a video game adaptation (where every adaptation sucks) and the magazine over relates to Max Paynes character, it's dark, gritty and depressing. This links into Max Paynes character because of the trauma he's been through after his wife and one year old daughter were shot, from going to a loving father to a tough straight faced detective. The snow also links it to how cold hearted he has become, towards the criminals of the fictional city where the film is set. The front covers background is enough for people who don't know max payne and for people who do know him from the video games to see what he's going to be like in the film without watching the trailer. It's not like Mark Wahlbergs character from The Other Guys where he stared as a detective with his partner, Will ferrell as they got into all kinds of trouble, obviously we have the major change in comedy and non stop action  but to compare his two detective characters from two differen't films you really can understand what he could be like in Max Payne. The colour scheme used here is quite dull but it's to make the font stand out. We have the colours white and yellow which really can stand out from the dark snowy background. Another nice little effect is the font style on "Max Payne", it has been made to look like it's been shattered kind of like how Max Payne has become a broken man. The bottom of the magazine has the "Whats inside" bit, this has got a pattern of one film or actor being in bold and then next being in normal font and then the next in a bold font again and so on.

Audience Research

This is what my Questionnaire looks like

What I learnt from my audience feedback, thanks to my questionnaire, is that the audience expect big news about my new film. They would want to see the biggest film news as the main story and be the main picture on the magazine.

I also learnt that people perfer a film magazine which has a good layout, I think the reason for this is because people don't want a messy layout which they can not follow, a nice looking magazine cover which is easy to read and follow. This tells me presentation is the key in a magazine cover.

EMPIRE was the magazine that most people had read, this is because EMPIRE is more well known then the other two. Most people who did this questionnaire were males.
What each magazine have  in common

• Each cover has a bar code
• Each cover has a big picture of the films main character
• Each cover  has a mast head.
• Each cover has a 'plus' section.
• Each cover used the colour white in the text (common)
• Each cover has a price, date and issue.
• Each magazine has a cinema theme title, (Premiere, Total Film)
• Only two of the front cover don't have much text on, the Premiere does.
• Empire and Total Film have a dark background, Premiere has a light background.
• Empire uses more than one picture, there is 4 pictures used, Premiere use two (other one used is very small) and Total Film only uses the one picture.
• The date/issue number/price is always placed around where the masthead.

What our magazine front cover will contain?

• A Masthead
• Picture of the actors as the main characters on the cover
• A 'Plus' section
• The colours will be light colours, and they will blend with the dark background.
• The magazine will have a cinema based title. (e.g. Popcorn, Lights, camera, action)
• The background picture will be the only picture that the front cover uses.
• The main characters will be interviewed.
• The front cover will have a date, issue and price.
• There wont be too many pictures used on the front cover, maybe about 1 or 2.
• There wont be too much text, just headlines on what the magazine will include (people will want to buy it for the style of cover)
• It will be an interview of the actors.

Magazine name ideas

                           

• Popcorn
• Lights, Camera, Action!
• CUT!
• Wrap!
• Behind the Scenes
• Film Fanatics R Us

Ideas

Me and Saifur have discussed our movie's name, we have decided to put "Saifur & Kyle" some where in the films name if we can. We are using our real names because I liked the idea when I was researching "Tenacious D in the pick of destiny", I told Saifur about the film having the characters named "Jack Black" and "Kyle Gass", the two actors real name in real life and he agreed that we should use our real names in the film. If we can't settle on a name for our film we wont include the "Saifur & Kyle" any where and just go with an other kind of name for the title, this could mean that the characters names will not be our names and also we will have to come up other different character names as well.

Movie Title Ideas take one

These movie titles are what me and Saifur have come up with, I have added my own as well to give us more of a choice when deciding on our movies final title.

Saifur and Kyle the movie(Yeah it's that Simple)

Saifur and Kyle and the great Mystery Machine

Saifur and Kyle vs. the World

Saifur and Kyle plus the problems they share

Saifur and Kyle in the great Muppet caper

Saifur and Kyle

Movie Title Ideas take two

These movie name ideas are references to films that are real. We have done this to give the movie a comedy feel to it, like we are spoofing the films title and also some elements of the  plot where we will add our own ideas. We will not copy the whole film, we will make sure that our audience knows we are spoofing the title and other bits so they know that we were meant to do this so they wont think we just copied, they will also know this because we might be able to  mention a reference to the film somewhere in the tagline.

Fun with Saifur and Kyle - Fun with Dick and Jane

Chronicles of Saifur & Kyle, the Liar, the Bitch and the Old War Dude - Chronicles of Narnia, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

Character Names Ideas

We need names for the two main characters in the film, which we will play. As I have mentioned before we were thinking about using our real names for the film. These are some of my ideas for the character names

Saifur and Kyle

Ant and Alex

Jake and Lyle

Idea's for Poster

We have thought of many ways to create our posters.

Our first idea is to have a blank background and have a door with me and Saifur popping our heads out with a third character at the bottom. We discussed who the third character could be, our first idea for the third character is to have  a random person with a storm trooper helmet on, so it could be a funny yet silent recurring character, we got the idea from the Stig in Top gear, even though he doesn't say anything he can still be funny by his actions.

Our second idea is to have a space background and to make it look like we are floating around, with the earth in the background. Our title will be on the top and the tagline on the bottom  which would say "It's out of this world"

A good tagline we have come up with if we do the Paul Blart/Observe and report theme to the film which will be set in school, could say "Walk the Halls" then the date when the film comes out

Other taglines could say

 There Halls, There School, There Rules

Schools Out/Schools Back

Sometimes rules have to be broken

We could also do what the Hangover did for there posters and have a quote from one of the characters but the quotes have to make it seem interesting and sometimes it has to make it look exciting even if it means misleading the audience to think something is going to be in the film when it won't. This will properly be the case with this film because it's just set in a school not like the Hangover where it has endless possibilities of the outcome of the movie because it's set in Las Vegas.

First Idea we came up with

We have managed to come up with an idea on what we could do for our media coursework. This page is to add more material for the idea and when we are finished this page end of this we can both see what we could use and what we wont use in the film it's self.

Our Idea is to have a trailer of a police mockumentary, which behind the scenes are idiots. The inspiration for the police theme came from the film hot fuzz, but the biggest inspiration for my idea came from the TV series Reno 911.

I thought of the idea when I seen a clip on Reno 911, this made me think that since we wanted to do something with a police theme but with the special effect holding us back, wouldn't it be good if we can explain that the reason for the shaken camera would be because it was a mockumentary and the cameraman would be running with us , if, for example, we were chasing a suspect. I told Saifur and he agreed that this should be one of our ideas.

Reno 911 has the same kind of elements that we could include in our trailer, but the camera style will be different.

When watching Reno 911, you can see that it's more like a mockumentary because of the characters interviewing other people in the street. This could be seen as an American police spoof of the office, because that is another show which interviews the staff and other people, we will be using this element from Reno 911 and the Office  but ours will have an effect where the audience will know it's supposed to be a like a camcorder and will understand when sometimes the camera will be shaken when filming the policemen on the streets etc.

The main question for us now is if we should we have American cops or UK ones. The reason why it's hard to decide is that we find the accent in America suits the roles of the whole comedy characters. We now have to decide if we should make it so American police offices have been transferred to the UK or if we should just have it so the police offices all come from Newcastle where it will be set.

Policemen and FBI agents in films

Bill Hader and Seth Rogen as Officer Slater and Officer Michaels in Superbad.  These two cops seem to want teenagers in the film to know that cops aren't that bad even by doing some crazy funny things which most mature adults are not supposed to do.

Simon Pegg and Nick frost as Nicholas Angel and PC Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz. Angel is more serious at the start of the film but Danny gets Angel to become more fun and to not take his job seriously.









The mall security team in Observe and report. Seth Rogen is again on the right side of the law. While not being Police officers, they do try and act like they are throughout the film. From left to right John Yuen, Ronnie Barnhardt, Dennis and Matt Yuen. Ronnie is very attached to the mall by even angrily saying , I quote, "This is my mall!"

Paul Blart played by Kevin James, again another mall security cop but just like Seth Rogens character Ronnie, Paul also wants to be a Policeman and tries to act like one throughout the film. He's also very dedicated to his job, like saving it from terrorists who took over the mall even with his unfit, large figure.

FBI agents Kevin and Marcus Copeland disguise them self's as the Wilson sisters to protect them from a kidnapping. The two  brothers can be racist throughout the film, but also can joke on about their own race. Quote to from the brothers in disguise to their Boss in the hotel "What a Beautiful chocolate man"

Lieutenant Frank Drebin from Police Squad and the Naked gun films. He isn't really an idiot in the films, things just don't work out the way he wants, he always seems to mess things up or, as you can see in the picture never can say the right thing. "Move it along people nothing to see here".

From the film Rush Hour. Detective James Carter and Chief inspector Lee are joint together when Lee's friends daughter is kidnapped in America. Carter has been assigned the case and partners up with Lee. The pair are funny throughout the film because they can be laugh at each others ethnic backgrounds. For example when Lee is singing Carter says, I quote, "You sound like a Karate movie" as he is Asian.

Detective Axel Foley played by Eddie Murphy is another stereotypical black cop in films where he plays the cheeky, quick witted detective who can be serious at his job but can make jokes out of situations, just like James carter from Rush Hour or Kevin and Marcus from White chicks. From the film Beverly hills cop 1-3. With the 4th film coming out in 2012.

A movie of the series was produced, it still follows the characters from the series but this time set in Miami. The plot see's the bunch of idiots go to a police convention in Miami, but they turn up late and find out all the policeman in Miami have been quarantined in the building by terrorists and the only cops left to save the day are the Reno squad, but as any person can see, as there a bunch of idiots, you know what's going to happen, their going to mess up things along the way.

The reason why I am talking about the movie is for the trailer that is used for the film. This is something we want to achieve. From watching it me and Jack have decided what one of our songs for the trailer could be and that is "I fought the law" by Clash, which kind of has a police theme to it. This song will be towards the end of the trailer after at the start we establish what the film is and about as most trailers do.

After looking into what we could use and where the trailer can be set, I suggested to Jack that we should change the theme a bit so we can use the school, as we have easy access to it. So we have decided to still have that Reno 911 mockumentary feel to it but to make the characters Hall cops instead. I got the idea by looking at Paul Blart and Observe and report, one out of the two things they have in common is that they both try and act like Policeman but are actually not very respected mall cops.#

This makes our trailer easier to do because we can now use the school, we can do this after school when there is not very many people about.

This poster is something like what we want to do for our poster. This is perfect because it features two people and has the Mall cop/Police theme to it.

The pose they are doing makes them look serious and cool, the kind of people you wouldn't want to mess with. It definitely goes with the main character of the film, Ronnie is serious at his job, you can tell this by the poster.

We are taking elements from both Paul Blart and Observe and report, while Paul Blart deals with slapstick, screw-up humour, Observe and report deals with sick, twisted humour.

The two main characters of the two films have medical problems which is usually why they mess up throughout the movie, in some cases, Ronnie, from Observe and report has Bi Polar disorder which he needs to keep taking pills for and Paul Blart has a Hypoglycemia , this means he faints when he doesn't manage to eat any sugar.

On the Observe and report poster, these two are classed as the main characters because they are the most well known actors in the film. You do have others like Anna faris and Ray Liotta but since these two are the mall cops it's pretty obvious why these two are featured on the poster together.

This is the style we could use for our character posters, it is very much like the Hangover posters which I talked about for my research. This style on observe and report has Seth Rogen doing a sort of sign language to express the name of the film, this is done over two posters separating the films title. The other two film posters have Rogen again but this time he's doing a different pose in each one, but this time the tagline replaces the films title.

We don't know if we should go with this style or the Hangover style for our character posters, but we do know that for our main poster we will have both of us in it.

Research on Film Trailers

The main purpose of Film Trailers is to tell the story of the film sis a limited time, usualy 2 minutes and 30 seconds because thats what the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) allows in theatrical trailers, online or home video trailers don't follow this rule. The MPAA also monitors what type of rating card the trailer is allowed. 

The Green card is most common card, as it's used in most film trailers since it has been known to mean "for all audiences, while the Red card is used on trailers which are not suitable for children. If the trailer does not follow the guidelines of the MPAA it gets a Red card which usualy means the trailer includes such things as profanity, nudity, bad launcuage (The most common one) and other type of material that is deemed inappropraite for children.

Pineapple Express

Pineapple express is a comedy stoner film. It stars Seth rogen and James Franco. This trailer shows us, the audience, that the film is a comedy stoner film. The reason for this is because Seth rogens character, Dale, is seen smoking a joint straight away in the first clip, the title is another obvious example as Pineapple Express in the film is established as the best weed you can buy. The trailer introduces us in the first 20 - 30 seconds the two characters, Dale and Saul. The time is shown before each character to show the audience the time difference between the two characters Dale is shown in his car while Saul is shown to be in his apartment, eating left over Chinese watching a sitcom. These two clips shows us the difference between the two characters, it shows us how the pair are different. Dale seems to be shown as a working man, with the suit and tie, while Saul is shown to be a slacker and a bit of a slob. I think the audience will pick up straight away by Saul's appearance that he is the drug dealer in the film and Dale is the buyer. The trailer moves onto Dale witnessing a murder and quickly gives the audience the plot to the film. It is now known that Dale and Saul have to run away from the bads guys because we know that they want him dead for witnessing the murder and they want to kill Saul because Dale dropped the Pineapple express outisde his house and will trace it back to the drug dealer. The song used in this trailer is quite unsual as it's a song which wouldn't proberly work with a trailer but managed to work with this film. The song is MIA, Paper planes and is played near the action and funny scenes. The gunshots in the song managed to sync in with the violence that is shown in the film clips, even one of the clips is a man firing a shotgun and a pistol with fits perfectly with the gunshots that are played in the song. Most times the ending scene in a comedy trailer has one last scene after the release date/name of the film or tagline. In Pineapple express it does this while they are trying to hitchhike.


Burn after Reading

Burn after reading is a black comedy which revolves round a bunch of people who set off a chain of bad events after two of them find a CIA CD at the gym where they work and try to sell it. You know they work in a Gym because the first scene in the trailer shows Brad pitt actually telling the other characters that they found a CD from the CIA in the locker room. This scene was good for being the first clip in the trailer because it's like Brad pitts character is telling not just his co-workers what he's found but the audience. It gives the audience an idea what the film revolves round and what is the iumportent key feature in the film. There are two songs played in this trailer. The first one is called Grounds for divorce by Elbow which acts are the action song linking the action, comedy scenes in a clip montage. The second song however is more lively and plays as the trailer goes through the cast of the film and it should as the film has a brilliant cast with John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. The end scene ends with a comedy clip with Brad Pitts character dancing on the running machine, the song which is playing still is called I've got a line on you by Spirit. It looks like his character is dancing along with the music that has been playing on the second part of the trailer. The trailer is different then the others as it's a "Red Band" trailer. The red band trailer is mostley for a more mature audience as it allows characters to swear whereas it's bleeped out or changed on the green band trailer. Most films look funnier on red band then on greenband because some films base there humor on swaering and sex related stuff which wouldn't be shown in the green band trailer.

Triangle

Triangle is a Mystery thriller which focuses on a women called Jess, Melissa George, who sets sail on a boat with her friends but gets caught up in a storm which destroys the boat. They soon board a mysteries ship which is deserted or so they think. The film is based around a Timeloop. Jess gets mixed up in this and makes the film what it is. The film trailer, in my opinion is pretty misleading as it shows the film as a full on horror film, masked killer on the ship, friends could/will die etc, but it's not, the film is actually an enjoyable ride which raises a lot of questions and leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting answers and wanting to know whats going on. The film has been seen as a marmite film, some people love while others, who don't undertstand the ending of the fillm hate it. The trailer starts off with Jess's line "You want to know what I do when I have a bad dream, I close my eyes and think of something nice". This line is the first thing Jess says in the film, the trailer uses pretty much the same thing twice in the first half and scenes from earley on in the film so it dosen't spoil much for the audience, I think this is why the film is seen as a full on horror and not the Mystery thriller that it really is. The voice over man comes into play again as he does in most films, sounding like a seven foot tall man who has been chain smoking since child birth, saying the lines "You enter a place you have never been", "Everything you've seen you have seen before", this gives the audience a taste of the mystery surrounding the film, It raises questions making the audience want to know what is going on. The second half of the trailer gets really interersting and it has a clip which got me interested in the film and why it become one my favorite films in 2009. There is a scene after the screams where a gun is heard reloaded and a scene comes on with Jess holding her hands up, the camera then spins around to reveal the person who is holding the gun is another version of Jess, confusing the audience more, her line is "Your not me" and it leaves the audience guessing if she actually pulls the trigger. The song darkness rises comes into play and sets things in motion. The most notable lines in the second half of the trailer is lines such as "It's starting over again thats whats going on" and "We can change the pattern, we can change the pattern so were not traped" which relates to the time loop idea that the film bases it's self on. The ending scene of the trailer adds more to this because it shows one her friends body falling to the ground on the deck full on the same bodies.

 Tangled

I chose this film because it was unsual to see a Disney film which, in the trailer, focuses on the male character then the female character since most of there films is always about a princess and a prince. The film is a reimagined version of Rapunzel. The trailer starts off with a man running in the woods dodging arrows untill one hits into a wanted poster of the man who is running, the man comes back and says "They still can't get my nose right". It seems like Disney are tyring to capture some comedy moments in there new film. We finally get to the castle where Rapunzel is kept but this time it seems like Disney made our hero, pick that place to hide. Disney seem to be changing certain aspects of the Rapunzel story to keep it appealing to males more then females. Even half way into the trailer Rapunzel is not seen untill she final steps out of the shadows after tieing our hero up, but with her appaenece she only gets her first and last line in the entire trailer a few seconds later where she's swinging around a tree with her hair and says "This is the best day ever". The trailer, being more of a teaser trailer, does not really show much of the film but more of less the same clips thats proberly in the first half of the film, this is to not spoil much of the film while showing the film off. Some trailers do trailers so badly that they pretty much show the entire film in the trailer and don't leave hardly any suprizes in the film for the audience to be amazed at, Tangled however does not do that. The song used in the trailer, trouble by Pink, makes the princess in the film look like someone who even though the hero will fall in love with is someone who he will have to look after since it some clips she looks new to the outside world proberly because of the castle that she was been trapped in.

Megamind

Megamind is a film which reimagineds the superhero movies by creating a movie where the bad guy actually manages to kill the good guy and see's the badguy get board of life and finds out that there has to be a balence of good and evil. Megamind soon faces a new threat and decides to protect the city which would then actually make him the good guy. The thing about the bad guy, Megamind is that he is actually the funny character in the film, he is voiced by comedy actor Will ferrell which makes sense since Will only usualy does comedy. The first scene shows Metroman showing off in front of a crowd who are cheering at him, untill Metroman pops up and says "Well evil is just cooler, Hit it" as he says hit it music which is used in the trailer plays and it shows Megamind getting dressed in common villian clothes. The next few scenes shows a reporter who Megamind has captured and must of been what Lois clark was to Superman, but the women does not seem scared but instead fed up showing the audience that Megamind has done this before and failed like many supervillians. The reporter, Roxanne Ritchi is voiced by Tina fey, Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, and her camera man Hal who is voiced by Jonah Hill. So far the audience can understand that this is a family comedy film as the cast have all been involved with Comedy sometime on another, even Megaminds sidekick Minion who is voiced by David Cross. Another song is played after Megamind takes to the streets after killing Metroman which is ACDC Highway to hell, when Minion asks what should they do now and Megamind bursts out laughing and replies with "I have no idea" implying he hasn't thought this far ahead and again he says "Hit it" and minion plays a radio which plays the song which could be the song that is played in the trailer which shows all the action scenes in the film, it is unknown since the film is yet to come out if it's a different song in the film. The reason I chose this trailer is because it's different from the other trailers I have talked about since this one is not a cinema trailer and is from the Comic Con 2010 event that happened a few months ago, you can tell this because the trailer is longer then two minutes and thirty seconds and your not allowed to go over the limit if it's a cinema trailer. This was made just for the Comic con and the internet