Honeytrap - Pollie Whaley

Honeytrap...

Director: Rebecca Johnson.
Writer: Rebecca Johnson.
Staring Actors: ~ Lucien Laviscount.
                              ~ Ntonga Mwanza
                              ~ Jessica Sula.
Release Date: 17 October 2014 (UK) 
Filming Locations: Brixton, London, England, UK Company Credits

Producers: ~ Sarah Sullick.

                      ~ Amy Ricker.

Editor: John Dwelly 

Duration Of Film: 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes) 

UK Distribution: Anchor Bay.

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfCeClJEFI

Interview With Rebecca Johnson : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/honeytrap-a-feature-film-set-in-teenage-brixton--2

Honeytrap is about a 15 year old girl called Layla who tells her story about her tragic romance which ends in the murder of the boy that loved her. The film is set in Brixton and inspired by true events.  Layla feels the need to fit in with the crowd and is desperate for it to become a reality. Sadly she gets mixed up with the wrong person as she is first rejected by girls and Troy is the only one that is there to comfort her...but is he really? 

This is an independent film and is therefore is on a low budget, I have found that it has only been shown on the screen in cinemas. I cannot find any information indicating  whether the film will be released on to DVD, however is being shown in the British Film Festival. All that I do know, is that it seems to be a brilliant film and I personally would love to go and see the film. 

As the film is an independent film, as I have already mentioned, meaning it was on a very low budget when making, and therefore couldn't  publicize the film as successfully compared to a high budget Hollywood film.  So I assume they advertised it in the media using social networking sites, for example twitter to get the word around. Seeing as Honeytrap was being screened in the British Film Festival, I'm sure they would have been advertising the film and screening of it on their websites and perhaps even had posters to advertise.

By Pollie Whaley...

Guardians Of The Galaxy - Pollie Whaley

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Director: James Gunn. An American writer, director and producer. 

Producer: Kevin Feige.

Budget For This Film: $170 million dollars.
                                           (£105,984,046.90)
Distributed By: Walt Disney Pictures.
Rated: PG-13 (12A)
Genre:Action, Adventure & Sci-Fi.
Date Released: 21st August 2014.
                                        Earned: $94,320,883 in the opening weekend                                                           of it's release in the USA across 4,080                                                          screens.
                                        Cast: ~ Vin Diesel 
                                                   ~Bradley Cooper
                                                   ~ Karen Gillan
                                                   ~ Zoe Saldana
                                                   ~ John C. Reilly....And Many More.

What Technology Was Used To Make This Film?

• Mo-Cap Technology.
• CGI Animation.
• Old-Fashioned Practical Make-Up Effects...  ~ Face Paint, Prosthetics ect.

Marketing...

• In June 2012, Marvel filed eleven applications for Guardians of the Galaxy, covering a variety of consumer products.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Who Is The Target Audience?

• I believe the target audience for this film would be people that are a fan of the marvels, the comic book and people around the age of 12 years and above as it is rated a 12A.

• 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' is now available on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD and 3D DVD.
  
  
  
  

Technological uses:

There was a great amount of detail and the technological use in the making of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and also to help create the characters of Groot, Rocket and more. The technological effects house of Territory Studios were responsible for this. They modeled everything out from the iconic prison scene to the 3D panels and UI stuff in Quill's ship. 

Interesting Information About The Film....

• Committed to her role...Before she even landed the part, Karen had long red locks previously to the cut. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi4KDQsEQ-o

Click link above to watch youtube clip of Karen Gillian taking about shaving her hair off for 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' role.






How Did They Advertise 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'?

Official Trailer....      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3isCLVghoI

By Pollie Whaley

Production Honey Trap

PRODUCTION

They found the actors through local agneies, schools, , centres and street casting. this is where they go to a specific placer and look on the street for a person that suits their needs of the character.
The cast was:
Jessica Sula - Also in Skins
Lucien Laviscant
Naomi Ryan
Danielle Vitallis
Lauren Johns
Tosin Cole
This is just the majority of the cast i Selected out the main ones

The movie was filmed in Brixton thisnis where the real incident happened. She has been working with people in the Brixton community for about 10 years so this is already some experiance. This also shows how Brixton is an important area to her.
Their budget was very low so i doubt they would be able to buy a high cinema quality camera to film

DISTRIBUTION

Anchor bay distributed her movie for her. This is good and anchor bay also distributed other movies which is experiance. They have distributed films like sin city, a bell for Christmas and giver. This film was released locally to different cinemas i dont think it was good that that distributed it locally as they may not get views worldwide. This could have improved the amount of views by a lot

MARKETING

They marketed this movie particularly to young urban youths i think this is a good audience as they are normally intersted in these type of movies as it has a sly link to them. They marketized they're movie on applications aswell i think this is good as plenty of people use applications in our generation. They used applications like whatsapp and bbm. They also used social media sites like Facebook twitter and tumble this is good as it helps their movie get about.

EXHIBITION

They are going to release this movie fully in February 2015 in west end cinema this is good as there are plenty of tourists there which may also watch the movie giving the movie honey trap a wider fan base. However now they have a restricted release and they are only releasing it on 2 screens uve cinema and a cinema at west end. I think this is also good as it is making people who haven't watched the movie wanting to see it more in feburary

Honey Trap Production

 Honey Trap Production

Honey trap is an independant film.With independent films it is all about networking and mentoring and knowing someone who knows someone is the best way in which someone is going to get a job. Rebecca Johnson is the director for Honeytrap, while watching Top girl she had decided that she wanted to work with whoever produced it and that was Sarah Sulick who became the producer of Honeytrap.

HONEY TRAP EXHIBITION.

BFI Film Festival Honey Trap Poster 2014

    

• The date of release - October 17th 2014 (BFI London film festival) released in feb 2015 officially in cinemas

• Restricted release (2 screens BFI) - Ritzy cinema 17th & Vue West end cinema 18th

Ritzy Cinema, Brixton

Vue Cinema, West End, Leicester Square

• Ritzy cinema is independent, picture house cinema located in Brixton - Relates to the setting of the film.

• West end cinema appeals to the target audience (Urban adults - 25+ & Urban young people - 15 - 25) as there are many tourists and people from different age groups in one area. In addition, it broadens the audience and spreads awarness about the film.

• Technologies used - HD

• Director (Rebecca Johnson) nominated for best British newcomer award at BFI Festival

• trailers -7,235 views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

HONEY TRAP

This film is about Layla she is 15 and has been living in Trinidad. Returned to her estranged mother in London, she is faced with settling into a new home and a new city with a fresh set of rules and codes. Unsupported by her mother and spitefully rejected by her female peers, she is drawn to the brooding Troy, who marks her as his "Trini princess." When that fails, she takes solace in the friendship of Shaun, another admirer, but her desperate need for acceptance leads to a tragic betrayal of his kindness.

The Film 'HONEY TRAP' was written and directed by Rebecca Johnson and edited by John Dwelly.

The first piece of finance for Honeytrap came from a grant for the training and mentoring scheme that was run alongside production from a longstanding local funder, the Walcot Foundation.

This film was made quiet a while ago foreshadowing another movie named My Murder. These were both of the same incident just a different director nd editor

The film have many social networks where they promote their latest updates. For example they have a Facebook page which is called hioney trap and a twitter which is called @honeytrapfilm i think this is good that try have these as they can promote their film in many places and get plenty of viewers   

It was released on the 17th of October 2014

HONEY TRAP

Honey Trap

Honey Trap film poster

Director:Rebecca Johnson

Writer: Rebecca Johnson

Starring: Jessica Sula, Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza

Storyline

Honey Trap trailer

Set in Brixton, London, HONEY TRAP tells the story of fifteen year-old Layla who gets sucked into gang activity and sets up the boy who's in love with her to be killed.

Details

Official Sites: Official Facebook
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 17 October 2014 (UK) 
Filming Locations: Brixton, London, England, UK
Company Credits

Production Co: Bright Pictures, Creativity Capital, Finite Films Honeytrap has been selected for the BFI London Film Festival and will have its World Premiere in the ‘Dare’ section on October 17th!



Honeytrap has been selected for the BFI London Film Festival and will have its World Premiere in the ‘Dare’ section on October 17th!

Budget

The film was made on a very tight budget, with Rebecca and her team using whatever resources they had to get it made. As well as relying on the support of local businesses and cafes during shooting, Honeytrap was partially crowd-funded through the site Indiegogo. “People went out of their way to help us, and for that I’m very grateful,” says Rebecca.

Rebecca biggest challenge: ''The film was made on a tiny budget, so there were many challenges in that. Honeytrap wasn’t really a story that really fit on a micro-budget scale, i.e., three characters in one location. It had a multitude of characters and many locations, plus several big set pieces: the murder, the bus ride, big crowd scenes, fight scenes, and so on.''

Synergy.
Their was no interaction between the Bright House Studios and another company. This is because it was on a micro budget movie. However it was an official selection for the BFI film festival.


Since it is an independent film on a low budget it is only being screen in cinemas. No information is out as to whether the film will be released on to DVD.

However it is available at cinemas  in HD and is currently being showed 
at the British Film Festival

MARKETING

This film isn't highly publicised due to a low budget. I could only find 1 interview and it was from the director and a few articles in a newspaper

Star Jessica Sula Featured in the newspaper

Unofficial Publicity on twitter

Multitude Media have been hired for unit publicity for the project. The project will be headed by Multitude Media managing director Will Wood and Senior Publicist Ben Lyttleton, targeting press across local, national, broadcast and film media as well as leading a social media campaign to engage the target audience which  is 13-25,those living in urban parts of England,those involved in gang activity and those who want to hear gang activity from a woman's perspective.