Trailer&Film Poster Analysis

           Poster:

This is the official Film Poster for the film The Wolf Of Wall Street.The key conventions we can see in this Film Poster are, the central image, the film title, stars/directors name, critic reviews at the top, a production blurb and at the bottom under the production blurb you can see what the films Facebook site is called.All of these attract an audience because people that are fans of Leonardo DiCaprio would be interested to watch this film, especially because the Hollywood actor has a background of taking part in romance, drama, thriller and comedy movies, in this case the genre of this movie is Comedy and we can tell this by the background of naked women, a little monkey in a suit in the bottom right corner and the fact that there's a part taking place behind our main character.

                                         

This is the official Film Trailer for the film The Wolf Of Wall Street. The key conventions we can see in this Film Trailer are, the institutional details, short clips of key moments in the film to introduce characters and narrative, fast paced editing to suggest drama and excitement, on screen text for the main information, the title and music that communicates genre and 'feel' of film. This Trailer may attract an audience who likes the actor Leonardo Dicaprio or other actors such as Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie. Also this attracts an audience who prefer comedy genres with abit of crime. The genres are quite easy to spot in this trailer as every short clip consists of one of the genres.

In my opinion I believe that by the film poster and trailer this film has successfully been promoted, I also believe that both film trailer and poster show the target audience of this film and show the different bits of different types of scenes which will vary in the movie therefore people who do not enjoy these types of films should know not to watch them and I believe that this is where the promotion went abit downhill because some of the viewers who watched this are not attracted to these types of movies, which contain a variety of different and somehow what the people may find inappropriate.

The Wolf Of Wall Steet

My Chosen Movie 

The film I have chosen to analyse is The Wolf Of Wall Street.

 The reason why I chose this film to analyse is because the moral of this story is very interesting and has an interesting story on why the story ends the way it does. I also chose this because there is alot of  information to analyse about this film and why it has varied the representation of the characters in a certain way.

Institutional Background

The film had 5 production companies however the first one was Paramount Pictures which presented the movie along with Red Granite Pictures. The UK Distributors where Universal Pictures International and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. 

No Brand Loyalty

The Wolf Of Wall Street has three different genres; Crime, Drama and Biography.The trailer of the film specifies all the genres of the movie and this is because in the movie you see bits of drama, you see the biography genre where the main character 'Jordan Belfort' who in the trailer engages the audience by asking a rhetorical question and the last genre crime is because the rhetorical question is the main character asking "Was all this legal?" and then answering it himself with "Absolutely not," this tells us that crime was a well chosen genre as the FBI have a big part in the movie.My chosen movie is not a sequel the first movie first came out in USA in 2013 and i believe it will remain as one movie. No other movies by the writer are mentioned in the trailer however the writer has written other movies before such as; Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos and Get Rich Or Die Tryin' . 

Its All A Matter Of Timing

The release date for the movie in the UK was 17 January 2014. The official trailer came out on 29 October 2013 on Youtube however I tried looking for teaser trailers but I could not find any.

Its A Social Thing

Th majority of the public have given this movie a good review, some have described it as Scorsese's best work however there are other people who see it in a different view, they believe its full of drugs,sex scenes violence and greed they also believe no emotion is displayed throughout the movie at all. Some of the critic reviews were actually interesting to read, in this case I have planned to show two good reviews and one bad review that the movie got.

Good;
          "This is a fantastic exploration of greed. money, and truly flawed character that spent much on the nineties on a jaw-dropping but pernicious thrill-ride"
Bad;
       "Every time I looked at my watch, the hands seemed to have stayed still."

Good; "The Wolf of Wall Street is a film that speaks to our times, and it is saying some very important things if we care to listen."

Risky Business 

The production budget in dollars for this movie was $100 million. In dollars the movie made around $18,361,578 in the opening weekend whereas in pounds the movie made around £11,635,731.98 on the opening weekend worldwide. Worldwide the film made around $116,900,694 + £275.100,00 from foreign countries. 

Stars In Their Eyes

The director has previously directed films such as; Goodfellas, Shutter Island and The Departed.His previous films vary from, Biography, Drama, Crime, Thriller and Mystery.The main start in this film is Leonardo DiCaprio who is famously known to play many different roles in different genre movies. DiCaprio has also taken part in The Departed which is another movie by Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio is known to play many different roles therefore he is not known for a specific type of genre. The director is mentioned at the beginning of the trailer whereas the writer of the script and the writet of the book the film is based on are both mentioned in one shot at the end.

3 Trailer Analysis

The name of this film is called Beyond The Lights.The genre of this movie is Drama.The storyline of this movie is a famous superstar who is forced to hide herself away, she hates being famous because she can't be who she is. She also find love in the story and romance in this case fits the Drama genre well.The characters portray the genre very well, the young lady in this film shows that she needs a man to save her from being who she is and understand her for who she is and not who she has to be. There is plenty of iconography typical of the Drama genre for example during the film you see her trying to commit suicide, there is abit of romance involved, theres alot of drama as to how she hates her life and abit of violence. I believe that this movie portrays the genre quite well. The trailer isn't very long however the setting of this film is very glamorous and contains scenes of setting in America.

The name of this film is Blood Shed. The genre of this film is Horror.The storyline behind this movie is about a guy who visits a homeless shelter to find out about his history, however he soon discovers that the shelter is haunted by the ghost of a deranged female. He soon wants to leave but once the security guard has closed the doors there's no escape until daylight. The story behind this and the events in the movie portray why the genre is Horror. There is plenty of iconography of typical horror as the scenes in the movie consist of blood, gore, brutality and alot of death. The trailer isn't very long however, the movie is set in a homeless shelter in America.

The name of this film is Unbroken. The film consists of three different genres: Sport, Drama and Action. The storyline behind this movie(not yet released) is about a young boy who starts his life on the wrong foot, he has a habit of getting into trouble however he soon decides to do something with his life and becomes a running champion in the Olympics. Soon after his accomplishments he gets captured by the Japanese forces and is transferred from one camp to another beaten over and over because he wont follow the rules. The character in the movie is determined to gain freedom and return home and he remains resilient throughout the whole movie. All of these even in the movie portray the genres. There is plenty of iconography linking to the three different genres. For sport you have the olympics and running. For drama you have the brutal events of his life and what hes been through. For action you have all the times hes survived and got back up on his feet. The setting of this movie is in the World War Two.