Research

I started off by looking at various romantic comedy movie trailers on youtube to gather some information and ideas on what to base our film trailer on. Some on these trailers consisted of:

He's just not that into you

The plot chronicles the romantic misadventures of nine individuals in their twenties and thirties. Set in Baltimore, the common thread of the story is that one person in each relationship is more enamored of the other person than vice versa. At the core of these multiple stories is Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin), a young woman who repeatedly misinterprets the signs that men give her about their level of interest in her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlqVHKn2dg

The notebook

The story begins when Noah, age 80, walks into Allie's room in the nursery home, since Allie now has Alzheimer and she requested this. He begins to read to her and the story translates 49 years earlier. It begins with Allie returning to New Bern in search of Noah, since she saw his face in an article in the newspaper that was about how he restored an old house. When they met again, Noah was already wondering about her, so his old feeling for Allie begin to resurface and he is drawn to her again. Allie, engaged, also begins to feel old love for Noah to resurface, but stops herself since she is divided into two, whether she wants to follow her heart or what is best for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EWdAaVx1k

27 Dresses

Two things about Jane: she never says no to her friends (she's been a bridesmaid 27 times and selflessly plans friends' weddings), and she's in love with her boss, George, nurturing dreams of a lovely, romantic wedding of her own. She meets Kevin, a cynical writer who finds her attractive, and that same week her flirtatious younger sister Tess comes to town. Jane silently watches George fall for Tess, a manipulative pretender. Worse, Jane may be called upon to plan their wedding. Meanwhile, Kevin tries to get Jane's attention and has an idea that may advance his career. Can Jane uncork her feelings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMY9z_QmM7I

Juno

A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuN0Z65sp5c

Here is just a few examples of the movie trailers in which we looked at, which gave us some great ideas. I have also added some of the film posters that i have looked at which fit in with the preliminary tasks of creating a film poster for the trailer.

To make me film poster look as realistic as possible i will have to use a number of programs including Adobe Photoshop.

Wednesday 27th's lesson

In todays lesson we are currently updating out blogs with recent information and planning what we are going to do in tomorrow's (Thurday 28th January) double lesson. Me and Caris are also watching a coulple of film trailers on youtube to help us with our research.

Tuesday 26th's lesson

In this lesson we watched the film Zulu, set in 1879 featuring Michael Cain, this film is based on a true story, it tells the amazing tale of 100 British soliders who stood fast against an overwhelming force of 4000 of the Zulu nations mightiest warriors in the defence of Rorkes Drift.
I made detailed notes about the storyline in this Historical type action film which will help me out future on in this course.

Monday 25th's lesson

In this lesson we read through and annotated two newspaper extracts which were mainly about kidulthood. We then watched and made notes on four different film trailers from four different erers :
-Reefer Madness, 1936, drugs, american film, ideas about youth, actors old compared to their characters.
-Quadrophenia, 1970's, mods and rockers, violence, music, drugs, drinking.
-Look Back In Anger, 1950's/1960's, angry young men genre, issues about youth.
-Bullet Boy, 2005 mainly violence and guns.

In all of these trailers they are still portraying, youth in a bad way, stereotyping, concentrating on the same things, violence of some kind in all of them.

Work in lessons so far

So far this year we have studied alot of trailers, music videos and TV dramas which link in with the themes of youth and Britshness. I have achieved along with 4 other memebers in my group the making of an alcohelp video which we have tried to show the dangers that can happen of underage drinking. In another group of only 3 we produced a music video to the song 'A son of a prectcher man'. We are now working on our final coursework piece which involves us under taking 3 tasks, for mine a have chosen to make a film trailer along with Caris Williams, a Film poster and as of yet i havent chosen my final task.

Introduction of essay

Collective identity suggests that the population is influenced by different categories that are portrayed in various ways by different elements of the media, television, film, internet, magazines and newspapers, such as 'The Sun' that stereotypes people. Stereotyping is a way in which individuals are judged by the way they look, the way they dress or speak, the music they listen to and even where they are from. All these different media sources have drawn in the peoples attention and gives them a sense that they need to belong to a certain type of group. This now shows that society believes that media influences it's audience more so now by the increase of British TV dramas and British films. For example alot of British TV dramas and films now perceive 'Youth' in a different way in which they use to. Is this because the youth of today have changed and the media has picked up on this and stereotype them?