Treatment brainstorms

Today we brainstormed for our treatment and got inspiration from the film cocktail and thought about featuring a similar type of scene for our main character in our own trailer

 

Ideas

Today in class we started talking about ideas concerning our story-line for our trailer. the suggestions we thought of were of a femme fetal type character which we based of of the characters in spring breakers and blue jasmine.

Sadeff thought of the idea of an arranged marriage based on the book dishonor however we both agreed on looking more into femme fetal type characters, and then basing our story-line off of that.

we looked on a website that had femme fetal type characters in them and the film that features a femme fetal in it that was a drama was Cruel Intentions  

 however mainly thriller type films came up so we looked up films that feature powerful female characters and we though that we could have similar issues as the films what a girl wants and Mona Lisa Smile

The Great Gatsby - Product Research

Mise-en-scene 

• Use of costumes gives us an insight on what genre the movie is.
• The use of quick shots also increases the pace of the trailer.

Sound 

• Fast music, increases the pace of the trailer and gives us an insight on the pace of the movie itself.
• Different types of songs for each part of the trailer emphasising the importance of each scene.
• Important dialogues used in the trailer, giving the audience a hint of how each character is. Also outlines who is the protagonist and the antagonist.

Editing 

• Quick transitions between shots.
• Informing the audience the release date, cast crew, institution, also an au toire. Example from the trailer is 'Romeo and Juliet' 
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The official poster of The Great Gatsby shows the iconic characters of the movie. Just from looking at the poster you can tell that Leonardo DiCaprio is the main protagonist as he is in the middle and he is looking straight at the viewers.

Even though the characters are descending behind him, they are still equally placed on his platform, therefore signifies that their roles in the film are equally important but DiCaprio is always the centre of attention.



In this particular poster Carey Mulligan is shown right at the bottom of the poster, this could imply that she is also important, also the fact that she may be different because she isnt with anyone else in the poster. She is placed alone and also she isn't looking directly at the viewers, this could suggest she has a secret side to her or she may be the turning point in the movie.

Spring Breakers

TODOROV

Equilibrium- how do they get to spring break, they are the only ones still at home. Then they get to go to spring break by getting the money together

Disequilibrium- they get arrested during spring break

New equilibrium - alien gets them out, he seems dangerous however he has all the money that they need and allows them to live out their desired lifestyle

PROP
the villain- Gucci mane
the donor- alien
the helper- alien
the princess- selena golmes
the dispature-the four girls
the hero- the four girls
the false hero-alien

STRAUSS
good vs evil
crime vs justice
youth vs age
control vs chaos 

   

Blue Jasmine

Promotional Package : Blue Jasmine

Poster

 

The Use of Colours

The poster is very simplistic, the colour scheme is dominated with a lot of blue, consisting of various different shades of light blue, with streaks of red and yellow.
The empty spaces being more dominant In the poster imply a curiosity and lead to the audience asking questions. the soft blues suggests fantasy and dreams. It can also portray the main character as being a bit delusional.
The close up of the side of Cate Blanchett suggests that the whole film will be revolving around her, the fact that we can only see a side of her face suggests that she is hiding something, maybe there is pain behind the soft smile that we see in this image. The fact that her body is positioned facing towards the bridge in the distance could suggest her search to overcome a problem.
The genre of this film is comedy/drama, however, neither of those genres are portrayed via this poster, idea of the bridge and the female in the poster being troubled could imply some drama, however, that conclusion can only be drawn from looking at the poster in depth..
The poster consists of the main image, the title, the certificate, institution, main actor, certificate and billing, therefore it follows the conventional film poster rules.
however, one thing this poster lacks is a tagline. A tag line usually hints at what the film may be about, however, since we are not given one, it leads to more curiosity and ambiguity.
It can also be argued that not portraying the genre well with a tagline could mean that the audience loose interest since there isn't much for them to take away after looking at this poster, and therefore in my opinion I feel this poster isn't very successful.

Trailer 

 

Mise - en - Scene

Mise-en-Scene is a vital concept that is used in media, Blue Jasmine has explored this concept well by implementing hidden meanings within the mise-en-scene.

 

Clothing and colours of clothing can suggest a lot.. for example the main character Jasmine is seen dressed in white throughout most of the trailer.

 

 

 

In this image Jasmine is wearing a white dress and is surrounded by rich gold colours from her house, cutlery and interior making her seem almost like a monarch, full of fame and riches, suggesting that she had it all

In this image however, we see Jasmine sitting in a plane. She is dressed in a white suit making her look important, at this moment we learn that she has lost everything however, she still has the ability to look good. This could somehow suggest that she is in denial of the disaster that has struck her and she still thinks she is above all. The bright light that is coming through the window of the plane works as a metaphor of hope to the place that she is travelling to, which I of course to her sisters place in San Francisco, in order to seek refuge.

 

 

In the trailer we also see the main character spend a lot of time in the bath or shower. From this we can see that she is deeply troubled and is using the time reflect on her life. Its almost as if she is using the water to purify herself and get away from all her memories and troubles. This also hints at the fact that she may be mentally unstable- this helps to emphasise the genre of the film as being drama. 

 

Jasmine is also seen to be seen to consuming a lot of alcohol to help her get rid of her troubles thoughts. This can be interpreted as Jasmine foreshadowing her self destruction. She is a heavy drinker and uses alcohol as her way of reassuring herself that she is still doing okay and is physically holding onto her mental stability.

 

 

 



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Genre Ideas

When choosing a genre to produce for our A2 work, we firstly chose comedy; then thought about situation comedy because of the distinct conventions meaning we felt that it would be quite easy to replicate and follow, however; we also thought about being able to use our school setting as an advantage and how we would do that and perhaps thought that a drama or a comedy/drama would work better with the provided setting. As well as this we considered that everyone has a different sense of humour and therefore the comedy element would be difficult to put across in the scripting.

By choosing a drama we felt that we could have a wider range of decisions in script writing as well as the most important thing about dramas being the shots, acting and music which we felt would be achievable   

Trailer Analysis