Minions
By Molly Robinson
Ever since the dawn of time, the Minions have lived to serve the most
despicable of masters. From T. rex to Napoleon, the easily distracted tribe has
helped the biggest and the baddest of villains. Now, join protective leader
Kevin, teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob on a global road trip where
they'll earn a shot to work for a new boss-the world's first female super-villain-
and try to save all of Minionkind... from annihilation.
- Written by Universal Pictures
PLOT SUMMARY
The Minions attended the world premiere at Odeon in Leicester square and
this was in June 2015, this did very well in cinemas. The reason why the film
did so well is because it was rated a PG and the film came out during the
summer holidays so therefore children would be the main target audience who
would be viewing the film. This then was good because the film being on in the
summer holidays meant that the children would have time to go and see the
film as they would not be in school, and as well as this they would have a
chance to tell their friends and advertise the films themselves – below the line
marketing, through the use of social media.
FILM OPENING
INSTITUTIONS
The distributor for the Minions was
Universal who do a lot of the big
blockbuster films as they are apart of the
big six and therefore they have a lot of
money and power to do so. (Disney,
Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century
Fox, Warner Bros) Universal have also
distributed other major films for instance
Despicable Me 1 and 2 and Jurassic World.
The company who producted the film was
Illumination Entertainment, and they are
actually an animation film production
company who work for Universal studios.
The other work which they have done is
mainly Despicable Me 1 and 2 as well as the
film Hop.
6.7/10 scored on
IMDB
PG rating – therefore will
get a large amount of
viewing as EVERYONE can
see it.
The film is a light
hearted film which can
be enjoyed by many
different people as it is
not really a confusing
on thinking film.
RANDOM
FACTS
Genres
Animation
Comedy
Family
Pretty much suiting most
people.
Directed by Kyle Balda
and Pierre Coffin.
Written by Brian Lynch
The stars included
(well voices of the
stars) Sandra
Bullock, Jon
Hamm and
Michael Keaton.
The co directed of the film for both
Dispicable me and Minions did the
voices for every single one of the
minions in the films. He said that the
babbling language has elements of
“Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian,
French, Spanish” within.
Universal spent a total of
$26.1 million on TV
advertisement for the film.
TARGET
AUDIENCE
PRIMARY
• Age 4 to 19 years old
being both male and
female.
• 50% male and 50%
being female.
SECONDARY
• Most usually older
family members
taking younger
people – for
instance siblings or
parents.
• 70% female and
30% male.
The film has had 17
nominations !!
However it has had 0
wins !!
AWARDSAlthough the film didn’t win
for any of the nomination it
will create a large amount of
below the line marketing from
the film being shown on these
awards, and getting people
talking about it on social
media.
BAFTA film awards 2016
Best animated film
Academy of Science Fiction,
Fantasy and Horror Films, USA
2016
Best animated film
Empire Awards UK
2016
Best animated film
Golden Schmoes Awards 2015
Best animated movie of the year
Kids’ Choice Awards, USA 2016
1. Favourite animated movie
2. Favourite Voice from an
animated Movie – Sandra
Bullock
Just some of the nominations are listed around the page, mainly
of the most well known awards which they were nominated for.
Minions came second in the amount in which it
received from the box office in the opening
weekend out of animation films. As shown by the
picture to the right.
The worldwide total gross
for the movie was a huge
$1.157 billion.
MONEY
$$$$$$$$
The budget for the film was
an estimated $74,000,000.
In just the opening weekend the
film made $115,200,000 in the
USA.
WEBSITE
The website shows short movies, clips, as
well as trailers for the film. Although the
website is pretty basic, it is very simple to
use, for the target audience of young
children. These clips which are shown are
done to allow the film to get even more
popular and from people watching the
videos means that people will share them
online, on places like Facebook and Twitter
and therefore from this above the line
marketing also creates below the line
marketing.
On the website there is also a page in
which you can buy a few different
pieces of merchandise.
TRAILERSThe minion movie actually
brought out THREE
different trailers, as shown
by the picture to the right.
The reason why there was
three trailers brought out
is because they did not
want people to forget that
the movie was soon to be
coming out, and instead
they wanted people to
keep talking about it right
up until the release date.
The trailers went in date
November, February and
then May, therefore there
was three months space
between the release of the
trailer until the next one
came out; plenty of time
for below the line
marketing through social
media!
The actual film was brought out 10th July in USA,
so therefore the watchers did not have to have
much waiting after seeing the trailers until seeing
the actual film, therefore keeping people talking
about it right up until the release.
PRE
PRODUCTION
OF MINIONS
Before the minions there were actually two more films
which were created before the Minion movie which
actually featured the Minions, therefore getting more
popularity.
As well as the movies shown above there is also the
Despicable Me 3 movie which is coming out in 2017.
Despicable
Me 2010
Despicable Me
2 2013
Minions
2015
POSTERS AND
BILLBOARDS
The Minions had a large amount of
advertisement especially on posters and
billboards mainly in the UK and in the USA.
This was done because they were usually funny
things on the posters which caught peoples
attention when they were going past these
posters.
MERCHANDISEAPP
There is an app which was created for the
Minion movie which is named the Minion
Rush. This will 1) get the film more
advertisement as people will want to be
playing the game if it is popular and 2) it
will get them more money if there are ways
in the app for people to spend money, or
there is advertisements by other companies
therefore letting the game get money from
that.
PRODUCTS
On the Universal website, as well as the
Minion website – and others such as Tesco's
and Argos there are a large amount of merch
such as t-shirts, bags and cups.
SYNERGYThe minions collided with the
sweets Tic tacs and created
yellow sweets which are banana
flavour therefore linking towards
the film where there are songs
about bananas.
Frubes had synergy with
Minions – and when you
have the frubes you can have
a chance to win prizes, such
as minions and goggles which
promotes the film more.
More people will want to buy
the Frubes as they find out
about the prizes, and the
more people that buy the
Frubes = the more people
who will know about the film.
PEZ linked with minions to
create the sweets with the
minion heads at the top, this
would advertise both the
films and the sweets.
There was synergy with
McDonalds where they
actually had happy meals
which were Minions
themed, this therefore
created marketing for both
McDonalds and the film.
Pantone is a colour
intelligence institution and
they used synergy to come
together and actually made
a colour yellow which
linked to the minions –
named Minion Yellow.
Facebook had synergy with
Minions because they brought out
Despicable Me emojis to send to
your friends in a chat.

Minions

  • 1.
  • 2.
    Ever since thedawn of time, the Minions have lived to serve the most despicable of masters. From T. rex to Napoleon, the easily distracted tribe has helped the biggest and the baddest of villains. Now, join protective leader Kevin, teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob on a global road trip where they'll earn a shot to work for a new boss-the world's first female super-villain- and try to save all of Minionkind... from annihilation. - Written by Universal Pictures PLOT SUMMARY
  • 3.
    The Minions attendedthe world premiere at Odeon in Leicester square and this was in June 2015, this did very well in cinemas. The reason why the film did so well is because it was rated a PG and the film came out during the summer holidays so therefore children would be the main target audience who would be viewing the film. This then was good because the film being on in the summer holidays meant that the children would have time to go and see the film as they would not be in school, and as well as this they would have a chance to tell their friends and advertise the films themselves – below the line marketing, through the use of social media. FILM OPENING
  • 4.
    INSTITUTIONS The distributor forthe Minions was Universal who do a lot of the big blockbuster films as they are apart of the big six and therefore they have a lot of money and power to do so. (Disney, Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros) Universal have also distributed other major films for instance Despicable Me 1 and 2 and Jurassic World. The company who producted the film was Illumination Entertainment, and they are actually an animation film production company who work for Universal studios. The other work which they have done is mainly Despicable Me 1 and 2 as well as the film Hop.
  • 5.
    6.7/10 scored on IMDB PGrating – therefore will get a large amount of viewing as EVERYONE can see it. The film is a light hearted film which can be enjoyed by many different people as it is not really a confusing on thinking film. RANDOM FACTS Genres Animation Comedy Family Pretty much suiting most people. Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin. Written by Brian Lynch The stars included (well voices of the stars) Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm and Michael Keaton. The co directed of the film for both Dispicable me and Minions did the voices for every single one of the minions in the films. He said that the babbling language has elements of “Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, French, Spanish” within. Universal spent a total of $26.1 million on TV advertisement for the film.
  • 6.
    TARGET AUDIENCE PRIMARY • Age 4to 19 years old being both male and female. • 50% male and 50% being female. SECONDARY • Most usually older family members taking younger people – for instance siblings or parents. • 70% female and 30% male.
  • 7.
    The film hashad 17 nominations !! However it has had 0 wins !! AWARDSAlthough the film didn’t win for any of the nomination it will create a large amount of below the line marketing from the film being shown on these awards, and getting people talking about it on social media. BAFTA film awards 2016 Best animated film Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA 2016 Best animated film Empire Awards UK 2016 Best animated film Golden Schmoes Awards 2015 Best animated movie of the year Kids’ Choice Awards, USA 2016 1. Favourite animated movie 2. Favourite Voice from an animated Movie – Sandra Bullock Just some of the nominations are listed around the page, mainly of the most well known awards which they were nominated for.
  • 8.
    Minions came secondin the amount in which it received from the box office in the opening weekend out of animation films. As shown by the picture to the right. The worldwide total gross for the movie was a huge $1.157 billion. MONEY $$$$$$$$ The budget for the film was an estimated $74,000,000. In just the opening weekend the film made $115,200,000 in the USA.
  • 9.
    WEBSITE The website showsshort movies, clips, as well as trailers for the film. Although the website is pretty basic, it is very simple to use, for the target audience of young children. These clips which are shown are done to allow the film to get even more popular and from people watching the videos means that people will share them online, on places like Facebook and Twitter and therefore from this above the line marketing also creates below the line marketing. On the website there is also a page in which you can buy a few different pieces of merchandise.
  • 10.
    TRAILERSThe minion movieactually brought out THREE different trailers, as shown by the picture to the right. The reason why there was three trailers brought out is because they did not want people to forget that the movie was soon to be coming out, and instead they wanted people to keep talking about it right up until the release date. The trailers went in date November, February and then May, therefore there was three months space between the release of the trailer until the next one came out; plenty of time for below the line marketing through social media! The actual film was brought out 10th July in USA, so therefore the watchers did not have to have much waiting after seeing the trailers until seeing the actual film, therefore keeping people talking about it right up until the release.
  • 11.
    PRE PRODUCTION OF MINIONS Before theminions there were actually two more films which were created before the Minion movie which actually featured the Minions, therefore getting more popularity. As well as the movies shown above there is also the Despicable Me 3 movie which is coming out in 2017. Despicable Me 2010 Despicable Me 2 2013 Minions 2015
  • 12.
    POSTERS AND BILLBOARDS The Minionshad a large amount of advertisement especially on posters and billboards mainly in the UK and in the USA. This was done because they were usually funny things on the posters which caught peoples attention when they were going past these posters.
  • 13.
    MERCHANDISEAPP There is anapp which was created for the Minion movie which is named the Minion Rush. This will 1) get the film more advertisement as people will want to be playing the game if it is popular and 2) it will get them more money if there are ways in the app for people to spend money, or there is advertisements by other companies therefore letting the game get money from that. PRODUCTS On the Universal website, as well as the Minion website – and others such as Tesco's and Argos there are a large amount of merch such as t-shirts, bags and cups.
  • 14.
    SYNERGYThe minions collidedwith the sweets Tic tacs and created yellow sweets which are banana flavour therefore linking towards the film where there are songs about bananas. Frubes had synergy with Minions – and when you have the frubes you can have a chance to win prizes, such as minions and goggles which promotes the film more. More people will want to buy the Frubes as they find out about the prizes, and the more people that buy the Frubes = the more people who will know about the film. PEZ linked with minions to create the sweets with the minion heads at the top, this would advertise both the films and the sweets. There was synergy with McDonalds where they actually had happy meals which were Minions themed, this therefore created marketing for both McDonalds and the film. Pantone is a colour intelligence institution and they used synergy to come together and actually made a colour yellow which linked to the minions – named Minion Yellow. Facebook had synergy with Minions because they brought out Despicable Me emojis to send to your friends in a chat.