How does my product engage with audiences?
Narrative
My films narrative is not handed to the audience so easily, there are enigmas that my audience must crack. My audience specifically will enjoy this and feel fulfilled by a challenge, audiences like for example 'hey days' would not so much like my film as my film cannot help them relax as my film makes you think. My film does not have thrilling and terrifying action sequences that make your adrenaline pump but instead offers something deeper helping the audience think about what they think the reality is.
Exploring fears
I feel that my film could connect through fear to many people, even those who do not want to look at a film about mental struggles. this is because these days with the rise in technology and surveillance I would say most people whether they would like to admit it or not have a fear of being watched all the time and being studied and looked at, that could be from the data on their phone or the camera on their laptop or the cctvs everywhere at this point I think this is a societal fear. This really correlates to David J. Skals theory that people find films scary that draw on societies fears.
ideology
My films ideology really brings mens mental health to the forefront because representationally men are not normally shown as weak how my main character Casey is in this film. this film could show people the mental struggles of men can go unnoticed by society and how societies views on mental health make some feel alienated. The joker 2019 showed Mens mental health although I feel including violence and alluding to mental illness even though I think the film is great I think was a morally poor decision by the writer so I when making my film that scratches on the topics of mental health I was careful to not include violence or crime from Casey. Furthermore, my audience will be able to connect with this ideology in my film as young people these days are really interested in the topic of mental wellbeing.
representation
For representation within my film we have unconventional representation of men and mental health and other then that we have representation of society as a whole. Society in my film is presented as daunting and unapproachable, this will engage lots of my audience as most people at one point or another in their life have experienced nervousness around people and crowds so this could really connect with those people.
tone
My film starts off with shots that show the city as mundane, as the opening progresses we start to see more dark and distressing imagery I think this is what connotes this idea that things might seem like normal life but for some people in their minds things mundane as that are actually really scare and maybe they should be for everybody. Maybe mundane life behind the walls is actually really dark.
style
My films stylistically is not so conventional of a psycho - thriller because of the high key outdoor yellow lighting and the square framing. My film in terms of style is similar to that of Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese 1976.
what does a film distributor do?
A distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film, they organise how the film will be advertised and where it will be shown and in what formats.
examples of distributors
Film4 productions:
- this is England 2006
- the lobster 2015
- the favourite 2018
Sony:
- spider man 1978
- venom 2018
- mall cop 2009
pixar:
- monsters inc 2001
- toy story 1995
- bugs life 1998
I feel that my film would work amazingly distributed by a company like Focus features because of its unconventional aspect ratio and that is a Psychological thriller that does not offer escapism which most likely means that the film would not be distributed so effectively by a distributer like Universal.
this film is (Last Night, In Soho 2021) which is an example of a Psycho-thriller film distributed by Focus features and this is a great example of a film that would have a slightly more specific audience as the average person may only go once a month or two months so they will not take the time to see a film like this and would much rather go to the big block busters like Spiderman.
Theme wise this film is similar to mine due to the psychological aspects of questioning reality.
dvd's were also made for this film, I think this is effective for film like theirs or mine because an audience who is more passionately interested in cinema may want to collect films in a physical format to keep possibly for their collection, specifically in the case of last night in soho which is half based in the 60's this could be nice to keep with that theme.
I would like to distribute DVD's of my film and posters and newspapers as this will attract a more passionate audience.
My DVD
Here is the DVD I designed for my film, I have kept it quite simple as I want the audience to want too see more. further more this works well with my film as it creates an Enigma of ''what is this about?''
however it also does hint at a thriller due to the city scape and the timeless title, it gives an almost dystopian look.
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