Super 8 Research

Super 8

Super 8 Targets a teenage audience as it is about a group of boys who bark upon mysterious events within their town and how they try to save it. We can tell that it is targeted towards teenagers as the movie tries to convey messages and tries to appeal to the teenage audience through the characters within the movie.

Broadcasting

Theatrical trailer of the movie super 8, this would have been shown in the cinemas across the uk and america

Tv Spot - superbowl advert --> Huge american event

Love Film exclusive interview where J.J. Abrams talks about how he kept Super 8 under wraps and reveals which of the lead boys is based on his younger self. Also Interview with the young stars of the film.

Kids choice awards interview (Super 8 won this award) -> http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/super-8/kids-choice-awards-interview

Special apperance from tom cruise at the super 8 premiere

Print

Super 8 Poster -> Promotes the movie via print, Release date for cinema june 10th 2011

Empire magazine -> Rates the film a 4/5 

"Super 8 is something to cherish: a beautifully made homage to better times, and better movies"

Super 8 Billboard in America -> Promotes the movie via print

A Promotion of the Movie Super 8 on a cup of noodles advert / Poster

The Guardian super 8 movie review -
JJ Abrams's amiable, ever so slightly disappointing mystery adventure is a weird hybrid. It's an affectionate tribute to Spielberg classics such as Close Encounters and ET, but it is also itself, as the poster announces, a Steven Spielberg movie: Spielberg produces. So it's part homage, part franchise operation. Spielberg has, in effect, licensed out his (former) style to Abrams, who in some way is like a lifelong burger fan entrusted with the chief managerial job at America's biggest branch of McDonald's
Everything about the movie has been meticulously created or recreated: the homely suburban setting, whose housing sprawl is set across a valley or plain that can be viewed, all at once, from rising ground. The setting is 1979, a time briskly established by a quick mention of Three Mile Island on the TV news. A group of kids career around keeping secrets from the grownups, although one of them is semi-legally driving them in car: there are no bikes. They have garrulous overlapping conversations in diners, and in open-plan breakfast-bar kitchens at home. A certain alien something is in evidence, creating intense light sources suffusing its witnesses with an unearthly, buttery glow. Its very familiar-looking face is not seen clearly until almost the end, and this visitor is creating a strange termite-mound structure of found objects.

In this setting, a group of teen film-nuts – including Joe (Joel Courtney), Charles (Riley Griffiths) and Alice (Elle Fanning) – are shooting their own zombie horror flick on Super 8, that is, the home movie 8mm format; Charles has the classic home-use cine-camera made by the Austrian company Eumig. They have gone out to a remote stretch of ground near a railway track to shoot a vital scene in which Alice's character emotionally begs her cop husband to abandon his dangerous zombie hunt. The nerdy boys are awed at how superb Alice's performance is, and at the greater emotional maturity of girls in general. But just as they are filming, they and their camera witness a terrifying train crash, evidently part of a creepy Area-51-type conspiracy. It is a dangerous secret for them to keep, but Charles is assailed by a brilliant new plan: why not incorporate this priceless footage into their film?

It really is a terrific first act: witty, smart, exciting – and Fanning's reading of her first scene is great, perhaps the best "rehearsal" scene since Naomi Watts's audition piece in Mulholland Drive. The growing intimacy between Joe and Alice, which develops from Joe pasting zombie makeup on Alice's face, has something of the Spielberg-fannishness in Kevin Williamson's Dawson's Creek. Later, Charles is to reveal his own feelings for Alice, and his horror at being fat and unattractive is no way allayed by his doctor's assurances that he will one day "lean out".
But then what? An obvious direction would be for the reality to be an amplification of what's happening in the kids' homespun film. But it's no spoiler to say that zombies are not wandering across the landscape. So what is? Well, the film ranges far and wide in its search for an urgent plot that could possibly do justice to this bravura opening. It turns out that there is some bad blood between Joe's dad and Alice's dad, but this Capulet/Montague idea is neither satisfactorily established nor plausibly resolved. The train carriages, spectacularly flung around in the opening phase, contain weird Rubik-ish boxes, whose vital importance is clear from the military personnel swarming all over the place, gathering them back up, but the secret behind them does not deliver any clear, satisfying storyline punch. The geekery has charm, but is a little self-conscious and just occasionally, this movie resembles an open-ended, rambling drama serial that gets a little, well, lost.
Having said that, the affection and high spirits of Super 8 are infectious. The digital generation of 2011 are teased with the prehistoric conditions that film-makers had to struggle with, back in the day. The stoner guy who works at the camera store says that he can do a "rush" on developing their film: it can be completed in just three days!
Of course we do get to see the kids' completed homemade movie, and, though it would be a cheap shot to claim that this film is a tighter and clearer piece of work than Super 8 itself, I have to confess, churlishly, to a faint disappointment here. The completed film does not particularly reveal anything that had been mysterious in the preceding action, and it does not mesh in any particularly ingenious way with the real-life adventures we have all just lived through. But it is funny and likable, like everything else Abrams has to show us.
The movie elsewhere suggests the more general experience of families' home-movie-making. Watch Super 8 home movies and you'll see mum and the kids, but not dad. Dad is the one doing the filming, the only one allowed to hold the camera. So the father is intensely present and absent at the same time: Abrams hints a little at this more melancholy aspect of Super 8 culture. The rest of the time it's a boisterous genre piece with some of Spielberg's tricks but little of his storytelling pizazz and none of his intense heartfelt belief.

http://www.super8comiccontest.com/ - A Spin off Comic about super 8, also a spin off comic about the director JJ Abrams

E-Media

Production Companys website
Paramount - http://www.paramount.com/
Amblin Entertainment - No website
Bad Robot Entertainment http://www.badrobot.com/

Super 8 website - www.super8-movie.com/    Also an interactive feature of the website is thesuper 8 editing room where you can edit clips from the movie.

Each character from the movie has its own wikipedia page with information about them and about there acting carrer.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_(film) (Characters List on the right hand side)

Dvd Released on 22nd of November 2011 (Blu ray available) 

Pod cast Interview with the super 8 crew http://thefilmtalk.com/blog/super-8-podcast-william-eubank-love-interview-seattle-international-film-festival/

Interactive trailer within the game portal 2, extra scene from the movie super 8 where audiences can interact and re-visit the scene of the train crash.

Super 8 Twitter and Facebook Pages



Four stills

The camera angle that is used in this still image would be a close up, the effect given from this would be that it shows how the character is feeling due to his facial expressions.

The camera angle use in this still image is a medium shot, the effect that this shot creates is that it allows us to connect with the character through facial expressions and body language.

This is also a medium shot, the effect given is that it allows us to interpret how the character is feeling through his body language, also it allows us to interpret how he is feeling due to his facial expressions.

The still image that is shown is a long shot, the effect that is created from this is that due to seeing the full body language of the character the audience can foretell what is going to happen later on in the movie.

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Casablanca 1942 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1vQ81jNWw

At the beginning of the clip the directors uses a long shot to introduce the cast and setting within the scene, as it progresses close ups are used to show the characters emotions and facial expressions, this gives the audience an idea to how the character is feeling within the scene.  Panning is used to crossover between characters, instead of using transitions.

Shawshank redemption 1994 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtwXlIwozog

Its starts off as a POV shot as he enters the room; this gives the effects that we as the audience are involved within the movie. As the clip progresses it remains a medium shot and then gradually zooms into the face to transition it to a close up, this shows how the character is feeling a sends a message to the audience that whatever he is saying must be serious as the camera focuses on what he saying.

lighting

High key lighting is used in this still image to represent the burst of life within this film. It also makes the poster appear realistic and depicts a party atmosphere. The use of neon lighting also portrays the party atmosphere due to the electrifying colours within the background. The use of bright lights also attracts the audience as the bold outline is very eye-catching and grabs the attention of the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMF-bVxlkc

In this short film extract top lighting is used to show the effect that everyone is watching them (crowd). its also uses top lighting too give the effect that the spotlight is on them as the clip is a rapping scene from the movie 8 mile. gives off the impression that it is a dramatic scene within the movie

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In my perspective I believe the best Year 13 production was the Call of Duty film. I think this because it was the most enjoyable out off the others purely due to its humour and creativity. The thing that went well with this film was that it combined both humour and practicality into one. They also used aspects of CLAMP such as props body expressions. Body language when the person was shot and costumes (High visibility jacket). Even better if it was longer and also if it had different settings instead of just one place. Out of ten I would rate this film a solid 8/10

The best Year 12 production in my eyes was detention. This was a particular film which grabbed the attention of the audience because of its shocking storyline. The dramatic scene at the end of the film was the best part of it as the effects made it seem real which shocked us as the audience. The thing that went well with this film was that it used great use of setting as the school was the prime location for the affair taking place with the teacher, also the use of effects was really good as it made the film almost seem realistic. Even better if they made more use of camera shots and angles within the film. Out of ten I would rate this film a 9/10