Construction: Social Media

Social media is a distribution tool

Film makers should use social media to help distribute their movies. This is because 74% of people in the 18-16+ age group are on social media, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Moviemakers everywhere should be using social media because of the access to a wide age range. 

I’ve used Instragam in two different ways: in a more traditional platform as a way of linking audiences to our film but also in a more imaginative way we have created the persona in our people who post as though they are real people, to be specific, the characters of Eve and Ular. I understand how vitally important it is to create synergy across our different platforms to build our audiences. 

A vital benefit of using social media is the fact that it is interactive, that it is a two way street of communication. With allure of going viral. 

I have researched case studies such as Lion Gate’s, clever marketing of the popular song “The Hanging Tree” to spread the word about The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. This resulted in 20 million views on Vevo’s Youtube page. A second case study involves the low budget indie film It’s a Disaster. It was decided to release this entire movie via the app Vine, in six second segments, according to the jokey press release. This stunt got everyone talking. A third ingenious way of connecting with audiences is the marketing strategy os using Alternative Reality Games, creating a fictional world that users in the real world interact with. 42 Entertainment have created several popular ARG’s for films such as, The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo. 

Our choice was to use Instagram as well as Facebook and Twitter. 

(Source: Movies and Social Media Marketing Films with a new media By Caitlin Neely 03.06.15)

Construction: Ular Interrogation

Construction: Eve Interrogation

Construction: Adam Interrogation

From my research into professional filmmakers practices I came across the film website, FilmEscape. In his book, Riding The Alligator, Pen Densham provides a checklist of questions every writer and director should ask themselves when they are developing their characters. It allows you to open up your own understanding of who or what your character might be. It motivates your characters choices, reactions and dialogue through the story.

I was really impressed with

Construction: Washing Up & Dropping Bag Scene

Earlier today, my group & I filmed two scenes for our trailer, Welcome To Eden. Unfortunately, we began with poor time management and organisation as we only had an hour and a half to try film as much as possible because members of the group had made commitments in the evening. 

However, although we weren't able to film much, the scenes we did manage to capture we filmed in great quality and detail. We began with a washing up scene between Adam & Eve where they were shown laughing and being flippant