Requiem for a Dream

Synopsis:

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.- Found of IMDB

I decided to watch 'Requiem for a Dream' as it seems to link with the trailer I am making for Media. As it is all to do with taking drugs and the effect on different people. In the film 'Requiem for a Dream' we are mainly shown the affects on a young couple in love and how they slowly deteriorate until it gets to the stage where Marion Silver has to stoop to selling her body to get enough money to get the drugs she needs while Harry Goldfarb has to go all over the country to get the drugs he needs and ends up getting an infection so he cannot return to his home where Marion is waiting for him. It also shows the effects on the mother who is obsessed with getting on a TV show, she turns to a dieting pill that makes her start to go insane and she ends up in hospital while they try and help her. It also follows the life of Harry's friend Tyrone C. Love, who ended up in prison with Harry due to being caught.

Our trailer uses extracts from this film as we include things like showing the effects of drugs with the couple happy and messing around, along with a more violent side where the couple is arguing and shouting at each other and the fact that both our trailer and the film seem to be more of a documentary of the lives rather than a straight up film. However unlike the film we have the added extra of the trailer we are making being a horror with deaths. Personally I found the whole trailer extremely confusing as you never really know what's going on or where the story is going to go because it seems to be a tangled web of the messed up lives of the people involved. All ending with tragedy for each character whether that's hospital, prison or being forced into a life of entertaining men to get enough money to pay for the drugs.

Although I didn't particularly like the film, as I felt it was way too confusing and actually gave me a headache watching it because there was so much happening all the time and it just got extremely confusing. I did still think it showed the affects of drugs well, and made the audience feel as though they where the ones doing drugs too.

Poster

We wanted to make a mysterious looking poster for the trailer so that you couldn't really tell a lot about the image, to create more intrigue into who the two characters are. The way it has been done suggests horror as they are in a dark tunnel with one person running away and the the person having caught them and is trying to drag them back.

Company Logo

We decided to change out company logo as we thought it would be more interesting and would stand out a little more. All copyright of the image goes to JustWithIt on deviantart.

Story board

Synopsis for new trailer.

What happens when the first person you trust turns on you? Eleanor (Ellie Daligan) is about to find out, after she and her boyfriend Hunter (Wayne Kanaris-Brady) have spent eighteen months in a dark room doing drugs together and having fun. Eleanor finally realises  what she is doing and how its affecting her life. Hunter, seeing her trying to get out of the drugs lifestyle after he continuously tries to force her to do drugs she decides she's has enough, with encouragement from her friends she manages to escape... but has she also escaped the hands of Hunter? In a rage Hunter goes after her friends and her to seek revenge on those who did him wrong.

Mood Board

I decided to make a mood board of the things I find scary or creepy, so I have an idea of the sorts of things that are classified as 'Horror'. Most of these are slasher horror which does not really link with our trailer as it's ,ore of a documentary thriller horror.

Digital Strategy

For our trailer we decided to make a Facebook page to try and build more of a 'hype' around the trailer, and also because most trailers out there have some sort of Facebook page/ website that people can go on to find out more information, for our trailer we have been uploading things like idea's for logo, updates of what we're doing and what's been done etc. We will also put a link to the trailer on Youtube when it is finished to try and get some feedback on the trailer we have done so we can use that in our evaluation. Through the Facebook page we are using digital strategy.


Digital Strategy:

Digital Strategy is An adaptable plan that will keep us focused on our goal – no matter what happens.

There are many different types of digital strategy including:

• Tumblr blogs
• Facebook pages
• Twitter
• Websites
• Trailers
• Movie Posters
• Interactive websites

Digital Strategy is useful as it gets the target audience interested in the film and creates a hype around it so that when the film finally comes out there will already be a group of people wanting to watch the film and wanting to see what happens. It's also useful as it means that a lot of the work is done for you with showing what the target audience is. All the digital strategy needs to be based on the demographic of who will be wanting to see the ilm.

The Digital Strategy is also used to blur the lines between the reality of real life and the made up fictional world of the film. It will help to create an audience who really believes what is going on in the trailer is really happening in our world. This creates a sense of excitement as it means that the audience is excited to see what is happening and what will happen in the full film. 

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