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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