Conventions of the drama genre

Conventions of the Drama Genre 

Film poster Idea

As my groups film is a psychological drama, it is important that the colours, pictures and text are related to the poster as much as possible as this is responsible for a small section of the advertisement process of  'Dazed'.

My idea is to use dark colours such as: Grey, Black, Blue etc,. I have chosen to use these kind of colours due to the dark mysterious background of the story, as it is a psychological drama, about a girl with an illness, which causes her to imagine things that aren't real, throughout this process she begins a heavy drug addict and alcohol consumer. As eyes play a crucial part in the acknowledgement of a drug addict, My idea was to have all gloomy colours in the background of the poster and  a pair of eyes, with bags round them, tired looking with large pupils to create the drugged effect. However, the eyes will be Bright blue, and all the other colours in the back ground dark. The skin being grey and worn, and the eyes being the only things that stand out and eye-catching. As our film storyline is fairly confusing the picture of just the eyes will create an addition to the mystery and confusion behind the eyes. In the background could be clouds, fog etc anything that adds slight confusion or partial dimness, as the Carrey the girl in the film, lives her life in pure denial and confusion of her illness, this will put the target audience into the shoes of Carrey through the method of a poster.

This is just an example, but the eyes on the picture will look tired, and have sever bags under them, to create the drugs abuse effect on her eyes, It would be good if the picture we use of Rebeccas eyes, (Plays Carrey) to have over sized pupils as well.

 The types of colours that I believe will look the best are colours that are Grey, Black, White etc, I think although they are quite bland and plain colours behind a strong colour like Blue that i will be using as a colour of some eyes, will contrast well.

I like the clouds in this picture, and I think clouds look quite mysterious and creepy when they use colours like grey and white. This sort of back ground will look good in the background of the eyes.  The Masthead we will use, will be 'DAZED' in big letters, the font I think should be sharp and eye-catching but it cant out-shadow the eye picture.  I think the title should be placed under the eyes, along where the nose would be originally, or where the mouth will be.

Radio Trailer Research

Conventions of a Radio Trailer:

• Voice over with sounds and effects from the film etc
• Information at the end of the trailer including things like Age certificate & Viewing
• The films slogan
• The main focus is to encourage your target audience to watch the film

• Voice over: We think that using a voice over on our radio trailer will encourage our targeted audience to watch our film, it will also tell the listeners where the film will be taking place and where you can view it 
• We will include clips and scenes from our short film, in order to give the audience an insight of the storyline and activity that takes place
• Also we could include a sound shot from the film we have created demonstrating the types of music and sound effects we have used.