group 8
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Exhibition of The Honey Trap
Target audience: young urban adults
It was nationally released in the UK on the 17th October 2014
The first ever viewing was at the BFI (British Film Festival)
Monday, 17 November 2014
HONEY TRAP- Marketing
HONEY TRAP-
MARKETING
Film was promoted through different film festivals and social networks (as this where most of the target audience are logged on to.)
There were also posters to add promotion.
THESE WERE ALL CHEAP WHICH WAS GOOD AS THIS WAS A LOW BUDGET FILM.
HONEY TRAP- Distribution
HONEY TRAP-
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE FILM?
Anchor Bay also distributed 'The Quick and The Dead', 'Playing with Death' ,'Domestic Interview' and many more.
HONEY TRAP- Production
HONEY TRAP-
PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR- Rebecca Johnson
PRODUCER- Sarah Sulick
It is very difficult for a low budget film such as Honey Trap to find a producer, Rebecca Johnson found Sarah Sulick through links.
Due to the low budget, the actors were found from 'street casting'. This is when the producers go to places like agencies, schools, community centres, etc to find new talent.
JESSICA SULA as Layla
LUCIEN LAVISCOUNT as Troy
NTONGA MWANZA as Shaun
NAOMI RYAN as Shiree
DANIELLE VITALIS as Tonisha
LAUREN JOHNS as Jade
TOSIN COLE as Andre
SAVNNAH GORDON-LIBURD as Laeitia
MODUPE ADEYEYE as Ciara
THE IDEA OF HONEY TRAP
Honey Trap is based on a true story about a girl who set up a boy to be murdered by her boyfriend. There was a BBC THREE documentry called 'My Murder'.
LOCATION- BRIXTON,LONDON
BUDGET- £76,000 approx.
This was raised by crowdsourcing on a fundraising website called Indiegogo and various different grants.
PRODUCTION COMPANY- FIERCE PRODUCTIONS
Target Audience- Teenagers and Young Adults (15-25)
It appealed to the National Audience as it related to the Young Adults who would want to watch it due to the characters in the film.
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Marketing of The Honey Trap
There were various tools used to advertise The Honey Trap
Facebook Page
Using social media is the cheapest and easiest way for the director to reach their target audience (young urban adults/teenagers0, as it is mostly young people that use social networking sites. it's a very smart logical way that ensures awareness of the film being made.
Posters
Posters are efficient as they can be put up around in different areas gaining awareness and therefore a mass audience.
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