The Truth. 2011
Genre: Sci-Fi
Plot: Damien and Laura stumble upon secret documents in their father’s desk shortly after he was murdered, he worked for the government, but they never knew who. Soon tall men in black suits hiding behind shades come into the house while mothers away. The children meat with a close friend of their fathers who takes them away, saying something big is happening. They’re on the run pitching various action packed encounters with the government men. No one knowing that the real truth is not far away………….. Once Damien and Laura are safe with James from the government men they take shelter. Then they start to look at the documents in more detail. The Truth is finally revealed, that their farther Howard was in fact assassinated by the Government he worked for, for finding out their secrets. That the Truth is that all the secrets the government have been keeping from us are true, and that the government are in fact an alien race, using their political powers to shape mankind. The kids and James agree something must be done, they have to eliminate the Government, before it’s too late!
Director: David Duchovny
Producer: Danny Boyle
Audience: Teenagers/ 15 possibly 18 rating
Release Date: February 7th
Cast:
Damien- Frankie Muniz
Laura- Evanna Lynch
James- Jeff Golblum
Howard- Roy Sheider
Promotion, Marketing and Audience.
The Promotion and Marketing will be similar to the way Batman The Dark Knight was promoted but along the subject matter of films such as District 9. Possible slogan “The Truth is revealed, February 7th” Possibly a Premier where a snippet of the film will be shown, as well as a teaser trailer on the internet. There will be a website for the film, giving background to the rumours about government secrets and the subjects of question in the film. The film may also be marketed on the fat that this is David’s first directing of a feature film and that Danny Boyle will be envolved.
The audience for this film will be cult for the fans of tv series such as the X Files. The film will be aiming at audiences who went for recent hits such as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind and Paranormal Activities. The audience will be mature teenagers verging on adult audiences, 15 to possibly 18 rating. This is because of the nature of the films subject and Sci-Fi genre element, but because it’s featuring actors from past popular Sci-FI and thrillers which should be good at atracting the nieche market audiance.
District 9 Promotion.
There was a human’s only campaign set up by Sony, promotional material was created that went along with the billboard that came up throughout the film. Posters and banners saying “humans only” and telling people to report non- human activity where put up in all sorts of public areas in the city. The website featuring rules and regulations on top of news feeds was also featured in San-Diego Comic Con 2008. There was also a countdown to the film’s release on the web.
Bibliography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9#Marketing
Intro.
The text will be in a blok formal format and will look like their being typed onto variouse parts of the screen. While the background images will be a litle blurry. And won't come onto the screen for long, may zoom into image. Introducing credits will be of Director and cast mainly. The images will be UFO's, aliens, Top secret files and video footage. Then towards the end the images will flash very fast, one after another, then the main Title "The Truth" will apear in big bald font. The music will be very dramatic, but graduall, lot's of drums and wind instruments, gradually building up to when the title apears, Instrumental.
The Intro House Style.
Main text font:
This Font
Main text size:
This Size
Title font:
The Truth
Title size:
This Size
Text appearance animation:
Windows movie maker - Typwriter
Relation to reall media
I got the idea for my text font and introduction animation from the TV series X files, in the introduction sequence and the introduction of a destination. The font is very secret official styling, typical of sci fi, seing as my film is going to be in that genre it fit's in perfectly. The animation is very type writer style, which goes well with the secret document theme. The way the text and the background images and video intermingal is very surreal, i got inspiration from the introduction to the sci fi thriller Sphere. In the film the text fades in and out and often morphs into the shape of a sphere with sci fi related images poping up. The idea of having the text fade in and out when changing of images and video ocures came from this, having the text move around the screen.
Rating
After looking at the sight BBCF i came to the conclusion that i would rat the move a 15, because of the subject matter. I read the specification of a 15 on the site, and both X files and Sphere where 15's. If i had rated it a 12, i might have got more audiances, but i am aiming at a certain type of audiance, that would most likely be of the age around 15.
