Facebook promotion

We decided as a group that our film needed some viral advertisement as viral advertising is free and easy to make. One method we have exercised for this is having created a facebook page that promotes our film that we can also invite people to view and become fans of the film. We hope that this way of promotion will attract more people and hopefully spread to even more over time. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-Bottom/359508851643?created

Synoptic Review

This is a synoptic review of some of the aspects of our media project.

We decided as a group that we would publish our film on the internet video site "Youtube". The reasons we decided this include that by putting our film on the internet, our film would have as much a fair share of possible viewing as every other video on there because of how democratic the internet is in terms of having no single opinion on what should be uploaded and what should be viewed. This also means that our video will not need as much publicizing or advertisement if it were being shown at cinemas as cinemas need to think about the profit of showing film and web content does not. Without worrying about the money, websites are free to have any content uploaded giving it that extra bit of democratic freedom.

Uploading our film to the internet is also our preferred method of distribution because it is the most post-modern way to distribute our film. This is because of how democratic the internet is and how post-modern media is without elitism.

First Draft

The draft below is the first draft of our final film, problems with this first draft we found when people watched it was that lack of explanation as to why the character is playing this high stakes game and why the character did not drive even though he bets car keys in the game. We shall be adding footage to the first draft to hopefully fix these problems and hopefully this will lead to our final piece.

Our Draft for Final Project

Poster links

These are links to ryan carman's blog in which he has the finished film poster, screen shots of the poster being made and ryan's own comments on his work.
http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/03/process-of-poster.html

http://ryancarmana2.blogspot.com/2010/03/poster-promotion-for-our-media-film.html

Here is the finished poster

Inspiring imagery

These are some images that represent some of the imagery that we are trying to create in our project. The above picture shows the basic imagery of a gambling card game and how the semiotics of it give off a cool yet energetic feel. The picture at the top represents the crime of our project and how things like certain stances show intimidation and facial expressions show danger, which are some of the more implicit visual we want to use rather then guns and hidden faces. The picture below is a representaion of the competion and tension between people in the game of poker and the intimidation one can feel facing a group of people in a situation such as this.

Radio trailer scripts

Myself and Ryan Carman have just finished recording the audio for our radio trailers and Ryan will begin editing the audio soon. We have decided that our radio trailer will be played on community radio as it will have more chance of reaching our target audience on a radio station that broadcasts to them. Radio scripts; This first script is for the first radio trailer which will be a deceptive trailer which parody's bank finance trailers that offer people a way out of debt.

"In debt?
Owe large amounts of money to dangerous people through illegal activities?
Why not consolidate all debt into one high stakes underground poker game and bet everything you own?
For more information, go to see Rock Bottom at Youtube.com"
This second script is for the actual trailer that will be broadcasted a few weeks after the first one has so that there is time for the first trailer to hook people in and get people interested . It will be this dialogue over the music we are using in our short film.

"When a man losses everything and his life is at stake, his only hope is to risk everything, on one hand. From the makers of "The Untrusted" comes a film about what it's like to hit.....ROCK BOTTOM. Coming to Youtube soon."