Proposal For Film Trailer

For our film trailer we decided if we came up with the idea for a film it would make the process of making the trailer much easier. We came up with an idea for the plot of the film which basically is that an 18 year old who just finished Sixth Form/College wants to go to University but he can’t get the money for the tuition fees so he goes to his cousin we’ll call him Jay. Jay is crime boss and is well known in the criminal underworld but he is also mentally unstable. Jay decides to enter the protagonist (we’ll call him Joel) in a Poker game that a few of his crime boss associates will be playing; he even gives him the entry fee. Once Joel is in the poker game he does well for himself and earns enough money to pay off his tuition fees and pay back his cousin but he doesn’t know when to stop and gambles it all away and loses it. Joel goes back to Jay to tell him that he lost all of his money and Jay threatens to kill him if he doesn’t get his money back in 48 hours. Joel tries to get the money but in the process botches a bank robbery and goes further in debt and eventually he ends up working for Jay to try and pay off his debt in the long run. Joel becomes well known criminal and other crime boss start to hire out his services and obviously Jay in his unstable mental state doesn’t like this and tries to get Joel killed. That is the basic idea behind our film.

We will then be making our trailer based on this plot and film enough to give the audience the basic idea we are trying to get across. For this trailer we will be using a lot of props which we will get ourselves and we need these props mainly to set the scene and make what we are trying to portray more believable and realistic.

The genre we are trying to portray with our film trailer is action-crime, the key genre employed will be crime. The distribution methods we will use will most likely be multiplex cinemas having the trailer shown before similar films or films of the same age range. We will be aiming the film to a more mature audience because of the use of violence, guns and illegal narcotics so the age range will most likely be 18+. There will be various key points in the trailer, such as the poker game the crimes and the last shot where the protagonist is captured and tied up. The film studio we chose to produce our film will be Universal Studio or Paramount Pictures, because they are both well known and recognised companies. Finally the marketing points we will use will be the stars and the director, we will be making up names and give them achievements to make them seem successful. For example, “ From the Director of ‘Raindrops’ “ This is a fake film name we came up with for the film trailer.