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Research Into Print Products

Magazine Front Covers:

• Masthead - the title of the magazine at the top of the page
• Tagline - small text at the bottom of the masthead featured in every issue
• Large Title - can be the name of the film or the actor they are focusing on
• Film Character/ Actor - a photograph (or in some cases artwork) of one of the film's main cast or crew members
• Colour Scheme that links to the film (green lantern's cover is green, Sherlock Holmes' cover is grey and blue)
• Buzzwords - Words that will entice an audience to buy('Massive', 'Epic', 'Exclusive!')
• Banner - a small coloured banner (sometimes with images) to show which other films are being wrote about
• Barcode 
• Date
• Issue Number

DVD Covers: 

• Main Actors
• BBFC Classification
• Production Company
• Barcode
• Film Title
• Main Image
• Terms & Conditions
• Running Time
• Production Credits
• Special Features
• Pictures from Production
• Synopsis 
• Reviews / Quotes
• Film Logo
• Cast List
• Spine Title

Billboard Posters: 

• Related imagery - i.e. picture of main actor/s - helps present genre of the film
• Reviews
• Large / dominant title 
• Tag Line
• Review
• Release Date
• Production Company
• Main Actors Names

Film Posters:

• Image relating to the film
• Name of actors
• Film title
• Star Billing
• Tag Line
• Production Company
• Release Date
• Review
• Institution Logos
• Billing Block

Research into Psychological Thrillers & DID & DID films

Psychological Thriller Films:



Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Running Time: 138 minutes
Box Office: $294,804,195

Shutter Island Plot:

• It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. 
• He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.
• Teddy's investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. 
• As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Directed by: David Fincher 
Running Time: 139 minutes
Box Office: $100,853,753

Fight Club Plot:

• A nameless first person narrator Edward Norton attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. 
• When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable.
• However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. 
• Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. 
• When the narrator is exposed to the hidden agenda of Tyler's fight club, he must accept the awful truth that Tyler may not be who he says he is.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
Running Time: 101 minutes
Box Office: $706,546

Frankie & Alice Plot: 

• Frankie is a black woman with dissociative identity disorder, caused by a traumatic incident from her childhood, which she has repressed. 
• She has two alters: Genius, a seven-year-old child; and Alice, a Southern white racist woman, whom Frankie struggles to overcome. 
• With the help of her psychiatrist, Frankie strives to live a life close to normal.

Identity Plot: 

• Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a fading television star, parents with a young son whose marriage is in crisis, a cop transporting a dangerous convict, a beautiful call girl, a couple of young newlyweds, and a nervous motel manager are caught up in a severe rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. 
• Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. 
• As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. 
• Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

I think Frankie & Alice would be the film I could take most inspiration from because in that film Frankie suffers with DID but she doesn't know about it, until she starts to black out and forget things.
This film idea is similar to mine in which our lead male 'Terry' has DID and he doesn't know it, and suffers black outs in between switches, and when he's his alter 'Damion' he does something he wouldn't do as 'Terry'.

Research into Dissociative Identity Disorder:

Film Logos

Exisitng film title logos:

Existing film title logos for my genre:

Collective Identity & Audience Theory

Collective Identity:

David Buckingham:

''Our identity is something we uniquely possess: it is what distinguishes us from other people. Yet on the other hand, identity also implies a relationship with a broader collective or social group of some kind. When we talk about nationality, cultural identity, or gender identity, for example, we imply that our identity is partly a matter of what we share with other people''

Francesca Poletta, James M Jasper: Collective Identity & Social Movements:

''Collective identity may have been first constructed by outsiders who may still enforce it. They are expressed in cultural materials: narrative, symbols, verbal styles, rituals and clothing''

David Snow: Collective Identity & Expressive Form

''There is no actual definition of collective identity, but its essence resides in a shared sense of 'one-ness' or 'we-ness' anchored in real or imagined shared attributes and experiences and in relation or contrast to one or more actual imagined sets of others''

Tafjal & Turner: Social Identity 

''A person has not one, 'personal self' but rather several selves that correspond to widening circles of group membership. Different social contexts may trigger an individual to think, feel and act on basis of his personal, family or national 'level of self'. An individual has multiple 'social identities'.''

Sheldon Stryker:

''Interact with others to create an identity 'identity negotiation'. It develops a consistent set of behaviours that reinforce the identity of the person or group. These then become social expectations. 'Sub-cultures' that develop a specific way of relating to each other (attitude, language, ideas) This helps construct our identity.''

Examples of sub-cultures:
-Vampire Culture
-Trekkies
-Surf Culture
-Steampunk
-Rocker
-Football fans
-Hippie
-Gamers
-Emos

Mikhail Bakhtin:

''Individual people cannot be finalised, completely understood, known or labeled. Saw identity as the unfinished self = a person is never fully revealed or known. Identity is a fluid concept, a life long project that is never complete.''

David Gaunlett: Media, Gender & Identity

''Construction of identity has become a known requirement. Modern Western societies does not leave individuals in any doubt that they need to make choices of identity and lifestyle. Everyone wants to 'live their own life' but this is, at the same time 'an experimental life'. We're bombarded with ideas about being yourself, standing out or finding your place. Finding an 'identity' is problematic especially when so many existing identities and roles are uncertain - gender roles, career stability, upward mobility with identities to see what fits, works and is comfortable.''

Audience Theory:

The Frankfurt School: Hypodermic Needle Theory:

The Frankfurt school theorised that when an audience consumes something i.e. a film, they are passive towards it, i.e. they accept that they are told how to think. The audience are supposed to be told how to think, as there is no other form of information. This is where the 'needle' image comes from, as if people have views 'injected' into them.

Richard Dyer: Utopian Solutions:

He noted that audiences look for 'utopian solutions' to the World's problems within film. The concept of a 'Utopia' is a perfect society with no flaws, which is present in many films, such as 'Meet The Robinsons, which presents the year 2037 as beautiful future with curvy skyscrapers, genetically enhanced frogs, flying bubble cars, robots and even cloned dinosaurs. 

Blumler & Katz: Users and Gratifications:

Audience members know what they want from a media product. Media products can be separated into 4 categories:- Information:You can find out about relevant events, education, ''gaining a sense of security through knowledge''
- Personal Identity:Identifying with another, re-enforcing their values and gaining insight into themselves

- Intergration:Gaining insight into others lives, identifying with others for belonging, finding a basis for conversation, social roles, enabling them to connect with friends, and society
-Entertainment:Escapism, relaxing, cultural or aesthetic enjoyment.

David Buckingham: Wallpaper:

Believes that young people see the media as a 'wallpaper' in their daily lives, using it to make sense of their life and experiences around them to develop their taste. A strong example of this would be what many newspapers have described as the 'Skins' generation, basing their musical tastes and lifestyles around the Channel 4 drama show 'Skins'.

Effective posters for my film genre

Trailer Vocab

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/01/15/145227280/the-art-of-the-modern-movie-trailer

The turn line - In film trailers there is often a song from the soundtrack that  is played over the top and suits the mood. For example in the 'Juno' trailer. Juno is a light hearted comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant. Because the protagonist is a teenager, the film will gain a teenage following. The trailer uses the song 'Goodbye Mr A' by Hoosiers, it is a very upbeat and popular song, which was released in 2007, - the same time Juno was released. So by featuring this popular song in the trailer, it will attract an audience who are fans of the song. A trailers turn line is where the soundtrack cuts  for a shocking moment or a comedic line, before continuing again as it brings clarity and emphasis to that moment. The trailer's turn line is at 1:45, where Juno is talking to Paulie Bleeker about how he doesn't even have to try and be cool, to which Paulie replies ''I try really hard actually'' Before Paulie replied, the music cuts, which makes his response even more comedic.  

Hits - Popular songs also form part of the trailers soundtrack, creating a sense of action and tension. The songs are usually features of action and crime film trailers. This is especially true for the film 'The Wolf of Wall Street' as the trailer features Kayne Wests song 'BLKKK SKKKN HEAD' which is used throughout the trailer, with the several turn lines. By using this particular song it creates a sense of rhythm and sets a fast pace for the film.

The button  - A line of dialogue which is played after the title of the film is revealed. It's used to leave the audience with a positive viewpoint on the humour of the film. An example of this is from the recent comedy film ''21 Jump Street'' in which Schmidt asks Jenko ''Why do you always jump across the car like that?'' then Jenko replies ''Because it looks cool'' and then it proceeds to the clip of Schmidt trying it before getting hit by the car.

The rise - Is the dramatic climax for the trailer, it usually before the films button and title. 'Lucy' uses this really well as there is several scenes of action with in it's trailer such as guns, explosions, special effects and cars flipping over. All of this is accompanied by dramatic music, which will hugely interest the audience.