Saturday, 10 November 2007

PRESS RELEASE: MERCADO

The press release for our album will need a brief synopsis of the film as well as background information on the featuring artists as it is a film soundtrack. We have created rough storylines for the film but to help us make a final decision I have researched similar structured films also with a central dominant inspirational female:

HONEY
Synopsis
- Honey wants to be a big time dancer, but she's having trouble making it to the top.
- she's spotted by big-time producer Michael Ellis, who offers her a job. which she willingly accepts, and gets started straight away.
- She's a big hit and even gets a promotion, but soon her boss tries to take advantage of her, which Honey declines and loses her job.
- Meanwhile the community center, where Honey works voluntarily as a hip-hop dance teacher, is falling apart.
- Soon Honey is forced to find a new dance studio and finds herself in a financial snag because of her previous job loss.
- She decides to put on a big dance performance to raise money for a studio. It's a hit and Honey opens up her own studio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NgBfM8hKo


SAVE THE LAST DANCE
Synopsis
- Sara Johnson used to be a promising high school dancer, having auditioned for Juilliard's dance school.
- In her mother's rush to get to Juilliard, she was killed in a car crash at the same time that Sara was auditioning.
- Sara failed to pass the audition, and when she found out that her mother had died on her way there, Sara felt enormous guilt, and gave up ballet.
- Sara moves in with her estranged father who lives in a predominantly African American neighborhood.
- At her new high school, Sara is befriended quickly by Chenille and brother derek who teaches her the ropes around the school.
- Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called STEPS that is totally unlike anything Sara has ever seen.
- Derek decides to take her under his wing and teach her about hip hop dancing. They practice in abandoned warehouses, school classrooms and anywhere they can find.
- Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and afterwards, Sara confides in him all about her mother and her dreams of Juilliard.
- Derek convinces her that she needs to do what she wants, and to follow her dreams, but she needs to get back into dance shape.
- Sara gets a new audition for Juilliard -she has prepared a ballet and hip hop dance number that she performs beautifully.
- She stumbles and stops her performance but is given encouragement by Derek to carry on and she successfully performs her routine and gets into the dance school.
- Derek and Sara are back together, and the two of them, along with Chenille and other friends, are all dancing and having a great time back at STEPS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXuLypueAw


IN RELATION TO OUR MUSIC VIDEO
- Both of these films have a female dominant role

- Both have themes of dance, training and working hard to be the top of their game

- Both experience struggle to achieve their goals e.g. no money, trying to get noticed

- all end positively

- the audience experiences the transition for training stages to success/fame

- Goli would fit as the part of either of these characters -inspirational image

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