Thursday, 31 March 2011

Storyboard for Opening Sequence (rough quality)

Sorry about the awful quality, I'm afraid my scanner doesn't pick up pencil very well...
I'll go over all the edges in fineliner soon, and re-post it up here in full detail.
In the meantime, enjoy a random yet inspirational site: http://thewanderingmadman.com/Home.html





Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Predators Marketing Plan

Website - www.predators-movie.com - has many features, including a facebook application where you can target your friends, an iphone application, and an interactive add-on that lets you demolish certain websites such as yahoo.com etc.
             - 289,300 people 'like' the facebook page
Trailers - There were several trailers - TV spots, teasers, etc. - for the film, but they gave what was almost an incorrect depiction of what the film would be - there was a recurring shot in the trailers where the protagonist, Royce, is targeted by 15 predator 'gunsights', although in the film, there is only one gunsight on him in that scene. This led the audience to believe the film would be a typical Hollywood action, where there's an all-out battle royale - as opposed to the battle of wits in the jungle that the film actually displayed.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Improvements to presented film concept

Setting: British buildings eg. Office blocks, powerplant for base of conspiring corporation.
Iconography: guns, explosions, etc. fences, company logo, photos of families, newspaper articles
Commercial aspects: videogame; website; conspiracy-theorist-friendly merchandise (eg. Tin-foil-lined baseball caps)
Enhanced USP: dramatic action about mercenary conspiracy - Woody Harrelson stars with Angus T. Jones
Todorov: Equilibrium - family life before kidnapping; Disruption - kidnapping, father's distressed search etc.; Restoration - riot is induced in mercenary corporation and freed missing persons find their families via police
Propp: Hero - Woody Harrelson; Villain - Ben Kingsley(and mercenary corporation); Donor: Angus T. Jones.
Age of boys when kidnapped: 15