Poster Codes & Conventions
- The purpose of the movie poster is to persuade the audience to go and watch the film
- Normally have a picture and text
- Large text has movie title and actors name
- Other text name of characters, directors, release date, tag lines
- Posters are outside cinema screening, websites, newspapers, magazines
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Thursday 8 November 2012
Codes & Conventions
Codes & Conventions
- Often Romantic Comedies have two protagonist which are normally a male and a female
- They both fall for each other but there is a problem or they can't admit it
- They eventually get together ( happy ending )
- The target audience is normally young teenage girls and older
- The protagonist are both very attractive
- The trailer normally has a voiceover introducing characters
- Often set in a busy area, work/urban environment
- Soft, romantic music
- Gender role for both male and females are typical stereotypes of gender
- Some nude, sexual scenes
- Clothing - smart, quite sexy
- Colours associated - red, pink
- Male Protagonist rather funny, tries to impress lady
How are we going to challenge these conventions?
Firstly we are going to challenge the conventions by making the gender roles less stereotypical, for example in the beginning of the film the girl has a masculine side as she likes to dress like a boy and does not care about the way she looks.
Also we are trying to make the target audience boys aswell as females.
Sharonjit
- Often Romantic Comedies have two protagonist which are normally a male and a female
- They both fall for each other but there is a problem or they can't admit it
- They eventually get together ( happy ending )
- The target audience is normally young teenage girls and older
- The protagonist are both very attractive
- The trailer normally has a voiceover introducing characters
- Often set in a busy area, work/urban environment
- Soft, romantic music
- Gender role for both male and females are typical stereotypes of gender
- Some nude, sexual scenes
- Clothing - smart, quite sexy
- Colours associated - red, pink
- Male Protagonist rather funny, tries to impress lady
How are we going to challenge these conventions?
Firstly we are going to challenge the conventions by making the gender roles less stereotypical, for example in the beginning of the film the girl has a masculine side as she likes to dress like a boy and does not care about the way she looks.
Also we are trying to make the target audience boys aswell as females.
Sharonjit
Skills
Useful Editing tips and Research
- Some trailers don't have many effects they just jump from shot to shot
- Try go with the pace of the music and try make your shots go with the music
- A trailer should structure the film
- The Trailer should not give away the whole narrative
- know the theme and feeling you want your viewer to feel
-Don't make the length of the trailer too long
- Try to sell the story
- Don't put too much text
- Set a budget for your trailer
- Keep the tone going
- Work on the music
- Introduce the main parts ( can include todorovs theory)
- Introduce the characters
Soundtrack - Garageband
I researched on youtube tracks that were made from Garageband, because i felt Garageband was too simple, however I found that you could make nice tracks on Garage band.
On the left hand side is a screen shot of a tutorial video I used from Youtube. It was useful because it showed me the basics and outline of garageband.
Using different programs
For our website I tried different programs as I wanted to make my website look quite proffesional.
Therefore I tried using Dreamweaver aswell as wix.
Photoshop
Sharonjit
- Some trailers don't have many effects they just jump from shot to shot
- Try go with the pace of the music and try make your shots go with the music
- A trailer should structure the film
- The Trailer should not give away the whole narrative
- know the theme and feeling you want your viewer to feel
-Don't make the length of the trailer too long
- Try to sell the story
- Don't put too much text
- Set a budget for your trailer
- Keep the tone going
- Work on the music
- Introduce the main parts ( can include todorovs theory)
- Introduce the characters
Soundtrack - GaragebandI researched on youtube tracks that were made from Garageband, because i felt Garageband was too simple, however I found that you could make nice tracks on Garage band.
On the left hand side is a screen shot of a tutorial video I used from Youtube. It was useful because it showed me the basics and outline of garageband.
Using different programs
For our website I tried different programs as I wanted to make my website look quite proffesional.
Therefore I tried using Dreamweaver aswell as wix.
Photoshop
Sharonjit
Audience Research
Audience Research
Just Go With It - Pg13
The film is targeted at kids as it is a PG 13, therefore the romantic comedy could be targeted at families because it has Adam Sandler starring in it and it also has a few sex jokes. But I think that the sex jokes and women in bikinis is a bit explicit for kids aged 13. The target audience is both male and females as the protagonist is a funny male character who likes females.
Sharonjit
Just Go With It - Pg13
The film is targeted at kids as it is a PG 13, therefore the romantic comedy could be targeted at families because it has Adam Sandler starring in it and it also has a few sex jokes. But I think that the sex jokes and women in bikinis is a bit explicit for kids aged 13. The target audience is both male and females as the protagonist is a funny male character who likes females.
Sharonjit
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