How would you have handled the marketing?
Rules
>It's the exact same movie we got
>Can't advertise it as an unlikely friends film
>Can't spoil the climax or Chelsea being evil
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>It's the exact same movie we got
then I wouldn't even try
It's really just as simple as focusing on Ruby's teenage longing for normal things and how her going kraken mode and conflicting desires from her family members make that more difficult
Chelsea can still be put on display as the school stacy, maybe without indicating that she appears out of nowhere
Honestly you could probably make it seem like Captain Gordon is a serious villain if you cut some of his footage together right
Congrats, you put more thought and effort than DreamWorks' marketing team on this
Not sure if it'd sell more tickets though
>Trailers showing the problems of Ruby and how she has to handle being a giant kraken
>Promos of Ruby and Chelsea hanging out, not saying that Chelsea is evil just two friends having a good time
>Merchandise like pocket T-shirts with a tiny Ruby inside that pocket or t-shirts with tentacles imitating flames (I know it’s dumb but I like the idea)
>Trailers telling you that there is a world in the ocean that humans don’t know
>Show more of the city where Ruby lives, things like knowing what her father’s job is or her mother with ads where she is selling houses
I know that at the end we will have the same final with Chelsea becoming evil 15 minutes before the movie ends, but at least they will not be telling you that Mermaids are evil each minute
I won't market at all, rather just dump it in Netflix where it belongs or as a free YouTube movie.
I'd at least get some toys or some fast food tie-in. And make your t-shirt actually feature the characters.
this is the most pathetic merchandise campaign I have ever seen for film by a big studio
It gets worse. Advertising wouldn't have saved the film, but good lord there's a reason no one went to see the movie.
>no tote bags
it's over
Nice merch
Toxic Matriarchy is le bad trailer.
>Setting Grandmamah as the villain
>Only to not actually deliver on it
But Op said we can´t change the movie´s plot.
How does it taste?
have you tasted the insides of a squid? pretty bland if not seasoned
I only ate them like this:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=rabas&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikrMuT84-AAxUIupUCHRI4CyUQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1440&bih=734&dpr=1
h-huh?
shit took forever to ink lmao but I enjoyed it, Ruby a qt
Ruby should counter with fishsticks
nice drawing anon
Reminds me of Popeye's mermaid arc.
K I N O
Imagine that's a family member or something
RIP. Uncle Brill.
and she had it with some Fava Beans and a nice Chianti.
Just makes me think of the TTG episode where Terra and Aqualad are dating to make Beast Boy and Raven jealous.
Who are they making jealous? The grubhubian? Frick that dude
That's not the part it reminded me of.
https://www.wcostream.org/teen-titans-go-season-2-episode-34-rocks-and-water
I don't think any marketing would save this disappointing film
Did you get your hands on a Ruby Gillman theater stand?
You didn't steal it did you?
>You didn't steal it did you?
I'd be more surprised they even had those
Had a chance to take save old man indy from compactor death, took Ruby Gillman instead
Poor indy, but if he can survive from a nuclear blast in a fridge then he can survive a trash compactor.
Indy's face looks fricked
They had a perfectly good unlikely friends to possible lovers angle staring them in the face
Anon what are you gonna do with that piece of cardboard on your bed?
Cuddle and hold tight
is that cat piss?
>*Disney film flops*
>"They didn't market it!" twitter rants
>*Ruby Gillman flops*
>crickets
couldn't even create a little controversy, sad just sad
Ruby Gillmans issues root deeper than marketing, but to be fair so does Elementals, so I'm not sure why there isn't more outrage. My guess is, in someways Elementals marketing did work. In the sense that people did see it, it just wasn't good marketing. Ruby was a literal who that showed up in theaters at the last minute to no fanfair. Hell, the way I found out about Ruby Gillman was via Elemental in theaters. I saw the trailer that spoiled everything about the film. So far the best marketing I've seen for Ruby Gillman really comes from you guys. Cinemaphiles been more passionate about Ruby Gillman than Dreamworks itself was. So I think Rubys "marketing" did kill it where as Elementals was just week marketing.
The first trailer is about Ruby wanting to go to prom that then cuts to the mermaids being evil then showing chelsea
From there introduce the royalty aspect and finding the trident to bring everyone together
>the mermaids being evil
Except we never see that in the movie.
>aspect and finding the trident to bring everyone together
You're turning it into an unlikely friends trailer
Futacraver36’s comment provides more worthwhile analysis than the rest of these fricks
Futacraver better analize who would have the bigger wiener, Ruby or Chelsea?
>Can't spoil Chelsea being evil
That was meant to be a surprise?
She's only evil for the last 15 minutes of the film
Again, was that supposed to be an unexpected plot twist? She had that clear smug evil smile in every piece of promo. You had to have the smoothest brain if you didn't see that coming.
>She had that clear smug evil smile in every piece of promo.
That's actually recontexuatlized in the final film
She never actually says the "I know your secret, you're a kraken pretending to be human..." line, instead she just says Ruby seems different and after her panic she looks concerned and genuinely asks if she's okay
Until those last 15 minutes, she's nothing but nice, sympathetic, and kind to Ruby and even saves her life
She has three moments equivalent to the scene from Frozen where Hans is smiling at Anna when he was in the water and nobody was looking at him
Again, would you fricking show Hans not kissing Anna in the Frozen trailer?
To be fair they couldn't ever do anything about it. If you play Chelsea as friendly, people would put your head on a pike for making the Hans twist. And if you don't show her at all, nobody's watching your movie
Ruby's more than enough of a reason to go watch it.
I mean just look at this face!!
I've gotta give it to them, they made the "calarts"/beanmouth style work. It's the first time where I wasn't entirely repulsed by it
I think it works better with Ruby because A: she's a monster girl. B: she has big ol' cute eyes, with an iris that isn't just the pupil. If only the humans were as appealing.
I'm not doing it for free.
The problem is that you can't market it as the life of a teenage kraken because of the ending.
As Ruby and Chelsea hanging out happens early in the movie you have to include it.
If you don't show the action scenes at the end of the movie you won't get the people who like action scenes, so they'll be completely wasted if they're not shown in the trailer.
Ultimately a slice-of-life movie that suddenly turns into a kaiju battle can't accurately be marketed any other way.