Viral Marketing use exsiting social media websites and technologies to try and increase brand awareness. It can be delivered through word of mouth or enhanced by social networks.
In recent years the best example of Viral Marketing is for Christopher Nolan's 2012 film, 'The Dark Knight Rises'. During the marketing campaign white bat graffiti appeared in different locations around the world. The idea behind this was for fans of the film to find the bat graffiti and take a photo using their mobile phones. Once they had taken the photo they had to upload it to social media using #TDKR2012, on Twitter or email the photo in. For every picture sent in, it unlocked a frame from the trailer. The entire trailer was unlocked in under 24 hours.
These are a few examples of the marketing campaign.
The video below shows the hype surrounding the markleting campaign.
Although it is uncommon for short films to have viral marketing, due to small budgets, the internet is a fantastic way to create hype and gain awareness.
Creating a short trailer with a tease of the film, posting this on social media mean it would be seen by friends & family, also by people who follow you on Twitter etc. Family would share the post as they would be proud of your work. There are film trailers posted on the likes of Facebook regularly which shows it is an extremely popular way to gain interest in the film. A positive thing about using Facebook to advertise the film is that it it free, which helps for small films.
For our final group logo we decided to use a still from our film. We chose the gun as it fits with the theme of the film. The decision to make it black and white, was because it allowed the gun to stand out and also the writing.
This is one of the rough logo designs we did, it is similar to our final group logo, however it is in colour and the writing is different. We decided against going with this logo due to the writing and clarity.
We decided this logo was a bit too basic, therefore decided against using it. Although it goes with the theme of our film, we dicided that using the still photo would be better.
