The document discusses various elements of film marketing campaigns. Trailers are used to generate interest in a film and get audiences talking through word-of-mouth promotion. Websites hold competitions to further engage audiences. Posters on buses and in magazines aim to reach broad audiences. Research found that most students watch films online and are influenced by genres, directors, and sequels they expect to enjoy based on prior films. Effective marketing utilizes different elements like trailers, publicity, merchandise, and placements in mastheads, on buses, and internationally to build buzz and reach target audiences.

1. Film Marketing
Task 1
Films are marketed in plenty of ways. There are major elements behind a film
marketing campaign. Some of these elements consist of:
o Trailers
o Word-of-mouth
o Competitions on websites
o Facebook/Twitter
o Talk shows
o Posters (on buses)
o Magazines/Newspapers
o Publicity Stunts
o Billboards
o Synergy
o Merchandise
Trailers are used to catch the audience’s attention to help engage them to want to
research more about the movie, because once they see the trailer they are going to
want to know more about the movie like who is staring in the movie, who are the
main actors, what is this movie really about and most importantly when is it
being released. After they have finally seen the trailer they are then going to be
telling others like friends and family members about this particular movie and how
exciting it really is therefore the word-of-mouth will continue to flow because their
friends and other family members will be talking about the movie which others in the
public will over hear and then they will want to research into the movie to see what
the excitement is really all about.
When the excitement of the trailer is gaining more potential audiences of different
ethnicity background and age group they all then start to visit the website that have
been set up about the film to try and win the different competitions so that they are
able to either meet the main characters, or even win merchandises for free as well
as free tickets to the premier of the movie itself. All of these marketing campaign for
the movie then becomes even bigger because they realise that the movie will
become a huge success eventually therefor they start to advertise the movie onto
the sides of buses because people who do not necessarily drive take the bus

2. therefore when they see this big poster of a new movie pass them on a different bus
they are going to be so interested into finding out more about the film therefore they
start to look for different talk shows about the film where the celebrities are
promoting the film itself to help gain more audience to go and view the film.
Not only does the audience watch a film because of the excellent trailer that was put
together but they also watch the movie because of the factors such as:
The ethnicity whether it is made of mostly black characters or a mixed
range of characters coming together
The genre of the story because some people know what they are going to
get from it because the genre is so precise
The cast because they have seen possibly the first part of that movie
before for instance IRON MAN
The Special Effects(SFX) because of all of the different visual effects that
make the movie even more so interesting to watch because all the effects
look so realistic and make the movie stand out because you do not see as
much in other films from this specific genre
The director, if it is the same director leading the movie they know what to
expect because they know the hard work in which he had put in the first
movie that is related to this second one. They know he will not disappoint
because he did not disappoint them first time round.
In order to help understand the marketing campaign of films I did a film survey in my
class to help understand the different reasons behind people choosing the film that
they watch.
These are the overall results that I received from my class that consist of 13
students:
 1% of them watch films everyday
 80% watch films once a week
 0% of them visit the cinema once a week due to college
 90% watch films online
 50% watch films based on the trailer
 70% watch the film because of the genre because it is reliable and
predictable
 30% watch the film because of its narrative
 40% only watch it because of the cast that is in the film
 60% watch it because they like the work of the director that is directing
the film they know what to expect from him

3.  20% watch the film because of the SFX that they are used to getting
from the genre of the film
 60% watch the movie because it is a sequel of the previous film
 30% would the film because of the reviews that it has received
 0.07% would watch the film because some of the actors/ actresses have
different roles as to which they are used to seeing them play a part of.
Masthead
When campaigning and marketing a movie on a website most companies choose to
advertise their movie on the masthead becausethis is a desirable place in which
people normally look when they are visiting different websites, therefore advertising
at the masthead helps the movie to advertise effectively because once the audience
sees this advert they are going to want to click on the link immediately to know more
about what this specific movie is about.

4. Iron man 3 is a great example of a movie that had a huge masthead on the marvel
website in order to help promote its marketing campaign of its released date as well
as what to expect from it overall. This gets the attention of the different audiences
that visit this website because they will want to watch the trailer to overall see what
the main focus and excitement of Iron Man 3 is all about, why is the poster so big,
what is going on in the background. They will want to find out all the different
answers to their questions therefore watching the actual film gives them permission
of access into finding out more about the overall film itself.
This is another great example of masthead because it promoting a brand new film
and it is also giving the idea of how to book your ticket so that you will be one of the
first people to see it once it reaches cinema on Friday. Not only that but you get a
chance to view videos of their apps and games to do with the overall film itself.

5. Mega-bus
This is an example of a double decker bus rather than a mega-bus which helps to
promote the film around the city. Having a double decker bus as well as a mega-bus
helps to show off the film very well because the poster on the bus is so massive it
will catch the public’s attention no matter if they were trying to concentrate
elsewhere. With such a big poster on the side of the bus people who do not drive but
rather take public transport as well as those who drive get a chance to view this
really great poster of the movie which will be hitting cinemas soon.

6. International Quad
An international quad helps to sell the movie to specific people/ target audience in
different countries.

7. As you can see Iron man 3 is being campaigned in three different countries which
speak languages. Inorder to help promote the film to help it gain more target
audience as well as sales the posters were designed differently to help capture the
target audience as well new target audience to wanting to go and experience iron
man 3 and get an understanding of what it is really is about.
Another example of an international quad is the movie Snow White which is originally
a name of a children’s story book.
As an international quad “Snow White‟s” unique selling points for their poster were
choosing to wear costumes having different weapons as props with a them that had
big special effects and magical birds flying around in the background of the witches
head to help show that she has power and she is very dominant. They also made the
choice of using big movie stars to be the main characters of the posters to help
campaign the movie itself. Most importantly you are able to notice the main
characters roles in the overall film because you have the very passive male who is
always there to be a hero and protect Kirsten Stewart who is snow white from the

8. evil woman. As always the most important role in the story gets to have their name
written first on the poster because that person is playing the more relevant character.
Sales Display
These two different posters are of the same film; however they are used to sell the
genre of the movie. The poster which contains the fly on the face represents that she
is dead and flies are about to cover her face because that is something that usually
happens. However the other poster is more of a mysterious poster because you can
see that evil actions will be happening in the film however you are not aware of how
all that you are aware of is the fact that the female in the poster might be involved or
will be involved.

9. JUDGE DREDD (1995)
The Judge Dredd movie which was made in 1995 was distributed by Guild which
distributes Hollywood films. In order for the company to decide whether or not they
will distribute the film the producer of the film has to first send it to the company with
the director’s name as well as some of the names of the characters who will be
staring in the movie. The distribution company then decides whether or not the
movie is a Hollywood Blockbuster film or not.

10. The budget of a film marketing campaign is divided into „above-the-line‟ and
„below the-line‟ costs.
MARKETING
ADVERTISING
Above the cost
PUBLICITY & PROMOTION
Below the cost
When promoting JUDGE DREDD they did telephone surveys in order to find out
more information about their target audience. After completing their survey they
found out that
 Only 55% of people aged 12-24 went cinemas quite often
 Only 24% of people aged 25-34 really went cinemas often
 Only 21% of people aged 35+ went cinemas often
Doing this survey helped with the marketing of the film and finding out different ways
as to which to promote the film and find the correct target audience.
The advertising budget is an ‘above-the-line’ cost, in which the distributor pays a
certain amount of money to buy advertising space whether it is on television, radio,
or in magazines and newspapers. They pay for a space and by doing this they know
what they are getting for their money because of the space they have chosen.
They know the size of the advert, when and where it will be placed and roughly how
many people are expected to see it.
ADVERTISING
As we all know advertising costs a lot of money especially when advertising a film
and trying to do it perfect so that people go out and watch the movie. When
advertising a film you are able to choose where you would like for it to be in the

11. newspapers or even in the magazines. Most companies normally choose the front
page as well as the back page because that is the way in which people read their
magazines or newspapers, but most importantly those who are not purchasing the
magazine or newspaper see the cover and it catches their attention to wanting to go
and find out more about the film and watching the trailer. This helps to create the
awareness of the film.
Most films use special effects to gain the audiences full attention in most parts of the
film however they cannot always just rely on special effects because the audience
will that, this films only selling point to us is the fact that they use a lot of SFX.
Therefore a trailer include SFX but most importantly avoid using too much as it can
make the film seem useless to its audience.
A teaser campaign is when the company is giving hints to a movie, basically
manipulating the public to what the new movie is about to release. In this teaser they
do not always name the characters that are going to be in the film, normally they do
it before the advert is released a year before. A teaser poster is used to intrigue the
audience to wanting to know more.

12. AS you can see with a teaser from Iron Man 3 and Judge Dredd they do not reveal
much about the film they leave the audience in suspense to wanting to figure out
what this poster is really about, what is it trying to tell us, will there be more posters
to give us more information. Teaser posters are there to let you think and try to figure
out what the poster is really trying to say to you.

13. The 1995 Judge Dredd compared to one in 2012 are completely different because of
the idea of revealing too much once more. Therefore the 2012 poster is quite darker
with only a spot of red to his mask because his mask is known of having that bright
red flair to it at the sides. Not only have the shots of Judge Dredd changed but also
the words on the poster have completely changed because on the 1995 teaser
poster it claims “I AM THE LAW” whereas for the 2012 teaser poster it says
“JUDGEMENT IS COMING”.

14. Publicity and promotion are „below-the-line‟ costs
PUBLICITY & PROMOTION
They have to give journalists stories about the movie so that they can send out press
kits (outline of the plot) synopsis in order to help make people aware of the new
movie and when it will be released. These press kits usually contain a set of
authorised stills, cast and crew credits, production notes, biographies and
filmographies of the cast, director and producer. They also do a set piece in which
they let the journalists know about the making of the movie and the different kinds of
props etc.
Most importantly giving the talk shows a trailer of the movie helps them to promote
the films and keeps the buzz going on with the movie; however they mostly use
important celebrities that people look up to on talk shows and radio shows. On the
other hand cinemas also help to promote films so that they can help to keep the buzz
as well as going on about the films in schools and colleges.In addition to materials
sent to print journalists, journalists working in television or radio also receive
electronic press kits (EPKs) containing selected video clips and interviews for
television, or audio clips for radio.

15. These are just three screenshots of when Iron Man 3 was being promoted during
half time of the Superbowl in order to help promote the fact that the new sequel will
be in cinemas fairly soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI4jgOmVetY

16. TASK 3 FANS & AUDIENCES