Radio Ideas

I know that sometime during our coursework we are going to produce a radio advert to advertise our upcoming 'Working title' film. Therefore I have started to come up with some ideas of the type of 'Key Elements' we are going to need to sell our film to our wide audience:

1) Most radio advertisements have a voiceover narration giving the audience an idea of

the plot.

2) The music behind this narration is usually tense making the audience feel tense whilst listening.

3) It gives positive feedback from expertise review companies. eg, '5 star' 'Tensest film in 2011'

4) It gives 'highlight' quotes from the actual film that create mystery for the audience.

5) It tells the audience the name of the film and release date mostly at the end of the advertisement.

I would like to include some elements of this in our own and possibly listen to some examples closer to the time.

Also possibly distributing the advert near primetime as this is when our audience is most likely to pay and watch our film.

Finally I would like to pay and advertise our advert on a big radio station such as, 'Capital FM' and 'BBC RADIO 1 ' as this is a wide range of stations that the whole UK listen to.

Film Rating

Looking at The British Board of Film Classification we are looking for them to rate our film as a '15' only suitable for 15 years and older.

This is for:

Violence

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be accepted. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is unlikely to be accepted. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification.

Language

There may be frequent use of strong language. The strongest terms may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be accepted.

Horror

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

Imitable Behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamourised.

Therefore we should expect a rating of '15'

Source used:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2/

Banner- working progress

This is the company logo for our company. It is working progress as the background colour doesn't fit with the colour scheme of the blog.

I chose the name PsychFilms, as our company will be producing psychological thrillers and the knife with the red 'P' is to represent the killer/horror side of the films, red is fitting as it mimics blood.

Script progress

So far we have just left the film titled as "Working title" due to being undecided on the actual title of the film. We have got this between a couple of choices, 'Killing between the lines' and 'Silent Reading'.

So far, we have done the first chapter of the script. It has two locations within it, primarily in his study room in his house and in the tunnels near the roundabout outside Alhambra for the flashbacks.

Distribution Company

We would like our film to be distributed by the company in our Barnsley college; as they are going to give sponsorship to our 'Psyche film' and a prize IF we produce the best film. However we need to wait for a response from them and confirmation for this to come through.

Example of how we intend to use Colour Filters

In our film we intend to shoot the film in black and white to create an 'urban' thriller effect. An example of this would be in the film, 'Schineders List' 1993. This is to indicate significant objects or characters to the audience; to create suspense and mystery as to why we have coloured filtered a particular 'thing.'

We have changed our minds on the 'silent film' idea. As we want the audience to feel more tense and having sound we feel, would add to this effect.

Film Idea Feedback

The feedback we got for our film idea was very positive which we are very happy with. We have feedback from a wide range of people eg gender and age, therefore it's looking like our production will appeal to a wide audience. The feedback we got of 'expanding' the wife's thought we may include some narrative of Maria reading the diary however because the film isn't based on this character; we wish to not confuse the audience on who the main 'protagonist' is.