I havn't blogged in a while but after deciding what genre i was going to base my trailer around im now looking at the promotional material surrounding the two films that help me confirm my decision: Miss congeniality and Princess diaries. Miss congeniality:

this is my favourite poster as its simple and effective, the plain colour scheme works well with the one bright colour in her dress and i like the way they have a plain back ground, i also like that there is no rating on the poster. I am hoping to create a poster similiar to this for my promotional package.

As you can see these are all different promotional materials for the same film; some are video and dvd covers and others are posters.

Princess Diaries.

again you can see that there is more than one element to the promotional package, i hope to create a poster that doesnt give to much of the story line away but enough to entince people to be interested.

Exploring romantic comedy more! this is one of my favourite genres and the one that i watch most often, it is not the only genre that i watch by far but is one of my favourites. Below i have put some of my favourite romantic comedy and romantic trailers:

The Proposal:


Love Actually:


The Holiday:


Love and Other Drugs:


All of these films have very strong female characters and or actresses and this is something i would like to consider for my trailer. as i mentioned earlier i think that it will be hard to create a good comedy elemement if i were to do a romantic comedy.
the two main female actresses in these trailers above are two of my favourites:
Anne Hathaway and Sandra Bullock.

Today im kicking off my media coursework by deciding what genre i would like to base my project on. For my project i have to create a film poster, trailer and a film magazine cover.





First of all im going to look at trailers for a selection of genre's and then comapre them to decide which genre i would like to use in my project.


The genre's i want to research will be:

• Horror




• Action




• Romanctic comedy




• Comedy




• Sci-fi

I will go in to 'youtube' and search: "[Genre] film trailer 2010" and click on the first relevent post.

The horror trailer i viewed was 'Frozen'

The action trailer i viewed was 'Salt'

The romanctic comedy trailer i viewed was 'Going the distance'

The comedy trailer i viewed was 'Death at a funeral'

The Sci-Fi trailer i viewed was 'Repo Men'

after looking at all of these i have decided that i definately dont want to do horror; i studied horror last year in film studies and i would like to look at something different. I dont think i would be able to do a comedy as it's hard to achieve something that is genuinly funny.
Sci- fi often relies on large budget Computer Generated Imagery and intracte sets for a real wow factor and so i dont think that it would be achievable with my constraints. I also think action is the genre that i know the least and so i will not be looking further into this for my project.
that leaves me with romantic comedy !.