Film Name and title ideas

We have made a joint decision to name the film 'Mourning'. We wanted the name of the film to be relevant to the theme of death that arises at the end of the film. Also the fact that the film is set in the morning allows for a double play on words with our title. We are now looking at ways in which we can design the film title.

One website we have found which is great for design of a film title is http://www.dafont.com/. It features a wide variety of different styles that could be used as our title. We want our title to have a sort of grainy, distorted effect that ties in with the tone of our film.

Here are a couple of examples that caught our eye...

Film Name Idea's

Well, the filming is complete, all we need now is a name for this masterpiece of visual artistry.

Possible Idea's

Amnesia
Nectar
Eh?
Beer
Is It Morning?
Polishing Minnasota
Legless
Fog
Early Mourning

Short Film Promotion (Jamie Simmons)

The process of how a short film is promoted and distributed is very different to that of a feature length film. Short films do not experience the publicity features do as they often do not feature well known actors and directors so therefore other means of promoting their films have to be considered.

• The majority of the short films I have watched during the research process of this task have been on http://www.youtube.com/. YouTube offers short film makers a way of getting their films into the mainstream without having to pay money. Also the fact that YouTube is viewed by millions of people everyday means that short films have a good chance of being viewed by a lot of people and reaching a wide variety of demographics.
• The other website I used to find short films to research was BBC Film Network which aims to offer new film-makers an opportunity to showcase their films to audiences they may not have been able to reach previously. I found it very relative to what we are doing in our current task in terms of promotion as the website is for new film makers which is what we are.

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Representation Etc (Will Price)

Genre

• Elements of thriller, murder mystery and inevitably comedy, its rather hard to properly place it in one particular genre, it may be considered social realism in the sense that its adequately shocking (which is the translation of 'social realism' into English) and it is based on something that could potentially happen, with situations arising which could be considered real.
• It could also be placed under comedy as most of it is written to be funny and its only at the very end when things seem to get really serious and shocking.
• However it also seems to have elements of drama within it as the concept of the seriousness within the film comes from incredibly dramatic events.
• There is also elements of thriller within it as the underlying idea of a hungover man trying to recall the events of the previous night, is that someone has been murdered and he is slowly discovering who did it and how without even realizing it. The gradual build up of suspense through the narrative of neither audience nor character knowing what's going to be uncovered next, coupled with the easily identifiable factor of being hungover to the stage of memory loss allows to the audience to connect with the main character almost to the point of believing that they are relating to something that has previously happened to them.
  

Representation

• The representation of age is clear within our film. We have taken full advantage of the stereotyping of young people under and around the age of 20 being hooligan ASBO's who spend every waking moment being raucous, rowdy and drunk to actually create the entire premise of the story, we have done this simply because it is far easier to understand and deciding to rebel against the stereotype for this type of story would make very little sense, there is also the factor that the film could speak to some of the people included in the stereotypes about how there will always be consequences for their actions. This is linked to something of an overlaying message to a key issue in the world, namely, hooligan drunken youths and how their actions no matter how they try to escape it (drinking the problems away) will have consequences, if this film was shown to them then it may speak to some of their senses and hit home the idea that there lifestyle may even one day catch up with them. But it isn't just to show this group in a bad light, i hope that the sadness and shock at the end of the film drives home a sense of pity to those this film doesn't represent and maybe even allow them to inject a smidgen of understanding.
  
• The representation of gender may be a tad harsh for the women if you are keen enough to read into the events of the film beyond possibility as the 2 female characters in the film are both possessive and one of them is deceiving and a mistress. However men don't come off particularly well either, as the main character is also deceiving and comes across as something of a fool throughout the film. Overall therefore, masculinity and femininity matches out and the dominant patriarchal ideology doesn't particularly figure in the equation as despite the main character being male he definitely isn't the dominant figure or the one in control. The only bit of dominant ideology that figures in our film is the fact that he is the one who takes control when his girlfriend is murdered despite the fact that he is blatantly over emotional.

Audience
The demographic for our film seems to mainly be made up of youth (15-30) mainly as the humor within it would probably be considered a bit too dark by some older people and as already established programs like The Inbetweeners have proved, relying solely on the younger audience member isn't in any way a risky thing to do. The normal audience member would be a working class male with a fairly immature sense of humor (think a reader of The Sun or Loaded), ABC wage section