Proposal

Daniel Foster Senior Seminar September 27, 2011 //__Senior Seminar Project Proposal: __//

 For my Senior Seminar project I wanted to do it on movies, but as far as what the project would entail I thought it would be interesting to produce and market a film. For the project I would script, cast, film, and edit a film that would then be marketed for a premiere at the school. Throughout the process I would be going through the different steps that high profile film makers go through in order to produce a film. When the movie is complete I will then produce trailers and posters that will help to market the film, along with starting a viral campaign to help build interest and anticipation for the film. Mr.Meder has offered to be my mentor during the production and marketing of the film, during my study hall at B-block on day 2. The place where I would be doing my volunteer work would be Mr.Meders room that way I have access to his film equipment and editing tools.  The product that will result from this project is a movie, along with the posters and trailers that would come with it. I will use the film to show my experience throughout high school with the digital storytelling courses, along with my expertise in producing a film using the different camera shots. The most prominent thing that I would have learned is how to execute a script and make a final product. The marketing aspects of the project will allow me to make trailers and posters for the project. I will then have a premiere for the film to see how successful I was In building interest for it. The premiere will serve as a one of my points in the campaign to show how marketing helps build interest for a film.  Every day I will work on the screenplay, along with having set dates for filming. Casting has already begun with core people clearing their schedules for those filming dates. The filming should take about a month to complete and a week to edit, I will also talk to other teachers and students who would be willing to lend their expertise in filming and music. When the film is completed I will begin the marketing by making posters that will be scattered throughout the school and trailers that will premiere on the morning announcements. All this will happen before my final presentation where I will talk about the different stages of developing the film, then show one of the trailers to build the interest of the movie, I will then show clips of the premiere of the film and talk about how the marketing turned out for film. I will close the presentation with showing the film to the class.  I will need to complete the script by the end of the month and casting should be done by October. I will need to have the script done, cast and crew, and filming dates set. I will make a face book group that will keep the people informed about the filming dates. As far as hours, I doubt that I will finish everything in 30 hours and expect to go over the 30 hours to finish all my work. I will research Marketing and look at films that had a positive outcome from a good marketing film. As far as the actual production of the film I will research the dynamics of what goes into a movie and look at articles that will aid me in casting and filming. My essential question will be “Can a film be produced and marketed without a initial budget?” I have taken numerous filming classes and have produced many projects that will aid me in the production of the film. My research topic will be on marketing and producing movies, I will look at films that received financial success due to a positive marketing campaign, I will also look at how films were produced. As far as how thier produced I will look at the essentials, such as a cast and crew. The film community in our school will benefit from this project because I will be showing off other films that people will be showing at the film festival prior to my film. The project will be a great way of showing how creative our film community is along with open new doors for people taking classes in this field. I will research the complexities of film production along with hone in on how to market a film.