2. Why do you think the producers chose to mimic this films poster?
To create the humour version of Bad boys which is a
3. What is synergy marketing?
Synergy may be defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable.
4. How do the producers of Hot Fuzz make use of this?
They created posters and a teaser trailer of the film, they then released the Official Movie Trailer, and set up a website for the film.
5. Which car company helped to promote the film?
Volkswagen helped with the promotion of the film.
6. What are the benefits of synergy marketing to a film producer?
It would be benifitial to a film producer because you can advertise a film through many ways, through posters, trailers, media and the official website.
7. What possible down sides can you think of to synergy marketing? Don't think that there are any, you spend money, and in return you get the best marketing ideas that you could think of. It isn't the cheapest type of marketing, but you get the best.
The downsides of synergy marketing is that it can be quite expensive.
8. What is a video blog?
form of blogging for which the medium is video, and is a form of Web television. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. It is also a very popular category on YouTube.
9. What are the benefits to producing ‘video’ blogs to film producers?
Producing a video blog to the film producers is benifitial in a few ways. You wouldnt have to read stuff, you could just watch a video on it, and know everything you need to know, by video. and not just writing.
10. Who are these specifically aimed at? (Watch the Hot Fuzz Blogs and analyse how these are designed to appeal to their audience)
11. How many pieces of merchandise can you find for the film Hot Fuzz?Tshirts, jumpers, posters, mugs.12. How many different versions of the Hot Fuzz DVD are there?Hot Fuzz (2 Disc Special Edition) [2007] [DVD], Hot Fuzz [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import], Hot Fuzz [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Hot Fuzz [Blu-ray][Region Free], Hot Fuzz [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC].
13. What special features are contained on the two disc special edition DVD?
Slipcase Packaging, Feature Commentary with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Feature Commentary with Sandford Police Service, Feature Commentary with Sandford Village People, Feature Commentary with The Real Fuzz, Outtakes, The Man Who Would Be Fuzz, Hot Funk, Fence Jump, Fuzz-O-Meter feature length Trivia Track, Storyboards - 270 branching feature to static images, US Theatrical Trailer, Director's Cut Trailer, UK TV Spot #1, UK TV Spot #2, Flick Book: The Other Side, Inadmissible: Deleted Scenes with Optional Filmmaker Commentary, Falsified: Dead Right with 2 Optional Commentaries Making Dead Right, We Made Hot Fuzz, Forensic: Featurettes - Art Department Friends & Family Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos, Here Come the Fuzz, Return to Sandford, Edgar and Simon's Flip Chart, Simon Muggs, Sergeant Fisher's Perfect Sunday, Speculative: Video Blogs - Simon Pegg Talks Training, Edgar Wright Introduces Hot Fuzz, Meet Nick, A Big Day On Set, Police Station Tour, Edgar's Supermarket, Kiss and Make-up, Pub Action, Wells Nights, Work Out, Wet Fuzz, Fete Day, It's A Wrap., Special Effects: Before and After - Flying Astra, First Ka Boom, The Aftermath, Final Ka Boom, Sheer Horror, Farmageddon, Grisly Fete, Inspired Demise., Plot Holes - Crush the Messenger, The Notebook, The Big Bang.
14. Why do you think they place different ‘special features’ on DVD’s and who are these designed to appeal to?
For the fans so they get a better understandment of how the film was made.
15. How many Oscar winners appear in the film?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine and Timothy Dalton
16. What was the films opening UK box office takings?
The film generated £7.1 million in its first weekend of release in the UK on 14 February, 2007.
17. What is its current world wide gross?
Altogether, Hot Fuzz grossed $80,573,774 worldwide.
18. What convention did Nick Frost and Simon Pegg attend in order to promote this film?
Wright, Pegg, and Frost maintained several video blogs which were released at various times throughout the production of the film.Wright and Frost held a panel at the 2006 Comic-Con convention in San Diego, California to promote Hot Fuzz, which included preliminary footage and a question and answer session. The two returned to the convention again in 2007 to promote the US DVD release.
San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego (as given on its website), and commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was founded as the Golden
State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. It is traditionally a four-day event (Thursday through Sunday — though a three-hour preview night on Wednesday is open to professionals, exhibitors, and some guests pre-registered for all four days) held during the summer. Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television (as was evident by the three circled figures appearing in Comic-Con's original logo), and related popular arts, the convention has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels. The convention is the largest in the Americas, and fourth largest in the world after the Comiket in Japan, the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.
19. Why do you think they chose to attend this particular convention?
Because its a worldwide well known convention and would advertise the film to a mass audience.
20. Use this web address and watch the reviews of the film. What audience are attracted to the film and does their behaviour contradict the view of Blumer?
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