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Sunday, 16 November 2014

HoneyTrap Production

Production Companies:

Fierce Productions and Bright Studios

Producers:

Sarah Sulick and Rebecca Johnson

HoneyTrap was awarded development funding from the UK Film Council (now BFI). They are now in the process of raising production finance, which includes a CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN as well as traditional film finance. Rebecca Johnson is currently in pre-production on her first feature script HoneyTrap with producer Sarah Sulick at Bright Pictures. HoneyTrap received a Development Award from the UK Film Council and aims to shoot in August 2013. Her short TOP GIRL screened at nearly 30 film festivals internationally including Berlin, Clermont‐Ferrand and Los Angeles. TOP GIRL won several prizes and awards and sold to various broadcasters including Canal +. She was featured as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow 2009 and selected for the UK’s prestigious Guiding Lights programme, under which she was mentored by BOURNE and UNITED 93 director Paul Greengrass. Both Paul and his Oscar‐winning editor Chris Rouse continue to play mentoring roles in her writing and career development.

HoneyTrap introduced a CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN in which members of the public fund for the movie to raise the production finance, as well as traditional film finance.

HoneyTrap Distribution/Marketing

Distribution

HoneyTrap is being distributed in cinemas and has also been selected for the London Film Festival which runs from 8th to 19th October 2014.

Oct 17, 2014 8:45 PM
Ritzy Cinema, Screen 2

Oct 18, 2014 3:15 PM
Vue West End Cinema, Screen 7

Marketing

HoneyTrap introduced a crowd-funding campaign on a website called 'Indiegogo' to raise funding for the film and also public awareness of the movie to get the movie more known. They've been retweeted by Telegraph and Sight & Sound on Twitter in the Brixton buzz, thanks to the boys at Multitude Media.
HoneyTrap collaborated with several music artists including Russo, Killa P and Skwilla to provide the score and also sourcing more emerging talent as they near production. They will be using the same casting process as as TOP GIRL- searching for new talent via agencies, theatres, schools and community centres and street casting. The director of photography is David Raedeker.
The film is being marketed on different websites to become widely known, these websites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Vimeo.

Sunday, 2 November 2014

HONEYTRAP

About the film...

HONEYTRAP is a tragic teen romance set in Brixton and inspired by true events. It tells the story of 15-year old Layla, who sets up for the boy in love with her to be killed. It is a low budget independent film therefore cannot afford the same promotional and distributional techniques that Guardians of the Galaxy did to get noticed by the public.

Production company: Bright House Studios
Distribution company: Anchor Bay
Producers: Sarah Sulick and Amy Ricker
Executive Producer: Laurie Holden
Writer/Director: Rebecca Johnson
Editor: John Dwelly
Budget: £1,000,000
Funding: Indiegogo campaign
This movie is funded by members of the public and have had 44 funders in Great Britain raising £8,560.
Genre: Tragic teen romance/ Urban drama
Release date: 17 October 2014 (London Film festival). Due to be released in UK cinemas in February 2015.
Formats: 2D and HD
Marketing: Social media was the key strategy when it came to marketing. Along with the traditional marketing methods which consisted of posters, a trailer, print ads etc...
Target audience: Young people (15-25) of both genders who are able to relate to the story and cast.

Starring:

Jessica Sula as Layla

Lucien Laviscount as Troy

Ntonga Mwanza as Shaun

Naomi Ryan as Shiree

Danielle Vitalis as Tonisha

Lauren Johns as Jade

Tosin Cole as Andre

Savannah Gordon-Liburd

Modupe Adeyeye as Ciara

Technology being used:

The technology that will be used is:

ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) - lines need to be recorded to sync for additional clarity (lots of planes fly over Brixton)
Sound Design- the hugely talented folk at our post production facilities house will create sonic landscapes to bring you into the world of the film, both the external bustle of Brixton and the inner world of characters' psychological space.
Grading- Photoshop for moving images. This is where the look and feel of the film are created with tweaks in colour, brightness and saturation and additional touches like flare - our favourite!

There was no synergy between Bright House Studios and any other production company, this is mainly due to the fact that it was a micro budget movie and couldn't afford to synergise with any other company. However it was selected for the BFI London film festival.

There is an example of cross media convergence as they created a Honey trap soundtrack album which will be compiled and produced by Buck's music group.

Fatma Al-Faqeeh