The Group

We are an A2 Media group of students consisting of Jason, Berry, Becky and Hoalie.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Teaser Trailer Textual Analysis - BERRY

Film Title: SAW 7 Director: Kevin Greutert Year of Release: October 2010 Actors: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery and Cary Elwes Distribution: Lions Gate I am going to be analysing the teaser trailer. This teaser trailer is approximately 52 seconds. This is perhaps over the length of time teaser trailers usually are. While the Saw trailer...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Skills development

REBECCA Throughout this experience I have learned a number of things. First of all it helped me a lot socially, I learned how to work within a team and not just by myself. Working in a team meant we had to be considerate about the other members of your group. We had think about each others ideas and how we can all contribute to the products using our individual...

Magazine Textual Analysis - BERRY

Empire is a British film magazine which is published in Britain, Australia, Turkey, Russia and Portugal.  It is published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media, whose first issue came out in July 1989. Barry McIlheney edited the first issue which was published by Emap, until Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. Empire is the bestselling British film magazine, continuously...

Friday, 27 April 2012

My tester teaser trailer - BERRY

 This is a tester teaser trailer i made outside of college with a friend. I just wanted to test out my ideas and have a go at using the camera and just gaining a little feel. I did it because i thought it would be fun and i could show the rest of my group my idea. Althought my tester wasn't to be serious, scripted and planned i payed attention to things that i could potentially use in the real teaser trailer. In my tester teaser trailer i ensured my actress was wearing a white dress to represent her purity and cleanliness. It showed she...

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Pre-Production/Planning - BERRY

Our Research To create a teaser trailer that would be successful we needed to understand what our audience was looking for and what would appeal to them. We felt that their will came before ours because what we were willing to create may not be what they are willing to see. We decided to go on a little research spree and ask different people what they expected and what...

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Evaluation Q1

Q1 - Discuss the use of conventions of teaser trailers and the use of horror in your video or in general. Below, each member of our group have answered this question starting with Berry then Jason then Rebecca and then Hoalie. BERRY  Red = Conventions I followed  Blue = Conventiosn I didnt follow                                                                                                                                                                         I...

Friday, 6 April 2012

Evaluation Q2

JASON To promote our film we will need to focus on Cross Media Promotion where we will use different ways of advertising. We start with our posters which is always a main way of promoting a film.     We have two posters both with the face of a clown the title and tag line. There are only slight changes with the picture. The fonts are kept the same...