Final Film

How did you attract/address your audience

One of the things that we did to attract our target audience was to follow a very predictable set out of our story line as we saw that the majority of popular romantic comedy's followed the same basic storyline but took different aspects into account to make them unique.

In the creation of our media work we used a wide range of softwares, hardwares and technical equitment. The two things we used the most were the apple macs and the camera. We then used Imovie to edit our film together. However we had to use Live Type to add titles and Final Cut to put the end result together. To get the ideas for the film we watched other films on youtube and on DVDs to be inspired. We used an indie game,animation and music site called Newgrounds.com to find our soundtrack and a file sharing sound effects site called Freesound.com to get the mobile phones alarm. We finally used DeFont to get the title font that we wanted.

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Name:
Lana Smith
Gender:
Female
Age:
17
Lives:
London outer suburbs
Watches what TV programmes:
One Tree Hill, Glee, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, Skins, Friends
Visits what websites:
Omegle, Facebook, YouTube, Tumbler, Twitter, Bebo, Blogger
Does what when they go out:
Eats at McDonalds (salad), Starbucks, cinema with her BFF’s, parties, ice-skating
Listens to what music:
Justin Beaver, Rihanna, Chipmunk, DJ Boonie, Top 40 charts
Wears what clothes:
David and Goliath, GAP, New Look, Claire’s
Reads what magazines:
OK! Heat, Kerrang
Likes/is involved with which subcultures:
Cheerleading, Arty, Creates costumes/ designs.
Shops where:
Claire’s, New look, David and Goliath
Aspires to be:
Married, secretary
Has how much spare £££:
100-1000 a month
Likes this particular genre because:
It makes her laugh and belive in love
Anything else about your ‘character’:
She is very girly and quite flirty

what kind of media instutution might distrubute your media product and why?

The type of media institution that may produce our film could be a big named company like Touchstone Pictures. This is because the genre is very popular and as we have gone along with a very stereotypical representation of the genre, we could get a high budget film distributor to produce our film. Also Touchstone Pictures has produced some of the highest rated Rom-Coms of all time, such as Pretty woman and Confessions of a Shopaholic, giving them a good reputation for producing successful films.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Gender- We show the man as being more powerful than the girl in the fact that he is a big shot while she is not as well off. Also we show the man as being the one who tries to find her, rather than she find him. This shows how the man has to work to get the girl whileshe hardly needs to work at all.

Age- Both our characters are young. They are both around the same age as well. This shows the stereotype of only young people being able to find love, and that you should be the same age to fall in love (against the idea that over 45s going out with under 30s etc. )

Social Background- The woman is shown to be of a lower social background to the man, having to deal with endless bills and living in an apartment. The man is, however, very well off as he owns a house and has a secure job. This social difference is challenged by the fact we say that this pair are destined to fall in love and be together.

Race- Both leads in this film are white, which can give of a racist view that only two white people will achieve a happy love life. this is common of romantic comedy's as the majority of films from this genre show two white people, not a white and black or two black people in our western culture.

In what way does our media product use or challenge forms or conventions of real media products?

Our representation of the genre of romantic comedy is quite conventional as we use the basic ideas for the characters. We use a man and a woman who are complete opposites, a feature commonly used in rom-coms, and made the male business orientated and the female dizty. These stereotypes are very common in this genre. We also set the opening out similar to quite a few popular rom-coms. Below is an example of how our opening is conferring to the forms of a romantic comedy.

However, we created an original storyline which was quite different to the ideas of a romantic comedy, in which the man and woman meet once before the man decides to find out about her by asking her phone book contacts and not her. This is different as most rom-coms have the main pair finding each other again and again.

Working pictures

Memento

The reason the film memento is a thriller is because of the questions that the film makes you ask and the technique of showing the end before the beginning. By showing the outcome of the film straight away the audience is not expecting to be confused about the end, but more interested in how certain aspects come about "Why does he kill him? Who is this man?". By making the audience have to discover facts about the characters and storyline during the film makes this a thriller as a good thriller needs to grab the audiences attention straight away and not let them stop questioning until the end finally tells them what they need to know.

Location Research

Titles for the film

Presentation2

Script

A TO Z

coffee cup

Shooting Schedule

Story Board

Characters

Darren: Darren is going to be a high class character who works for a large expensive corporate company. He will be walking around acting quite snobby (walking with his corporate umbrella.) He is going to be roughly 22, he's a of a white ethnicity and is quite short for a male. This is comical as he is expected to be more dominant than Emily and so it is funny to see him as less powerful and shorter.

Emily: Emily is going to be a ditsy, crazy character. She is going to be stressed out and act quite immaturely and unorganised. She is about 20, white and of an average height. She has long blonde hair that looks sort of scruffy so that she looks like she doesn't care about her appearance too much. Emily is quite tall for a woman and is taller then Darren. This creates humour as she is more dominant than Darren.

Sounds

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/120701

Song Title: Tea and Crumpets
Artist: Nick Leach

We choose this song as it is upbeat and fun. The genre is brit-rock as we wanted to relate the song back to the country.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110093

This alarm clock sound is going to be used for the woman's alarm clock which signatures the beginning of the opening sequence.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=26474

This is an alarm clock sound which is going to be used for Darren's alarm clock at the beginning which is a corporate sounding alarm clock.

Casting

Darren: we chose Darren because he is a keen actor and looks the eldest out of our group, so fits the role of the character which means we keep the suspension of belief. Also he felt more comfortable playing the role as there are some awkward shots and he knows the other actress, which will make the opening sequence more believable.

Emily: We chose Emily as the actor because she best suited the female role. She was the oldest looking in the group and she has done acting in the class before. She also knows Darren so the awkward scenes within the film will not be as hard to film.

Title font Ideas

(DA-Font-- I throw my hands up in the air)

(DA-Font-- Wicked)

Props,Costume and Locations

Props:
Two separate alarm clocks. The man's one will be an alarm on the phone which will show his high-tech possessions and show he has a lot of money. Also shows how he has no need for a proper alarm clock as he is efficient. The woman's alarm clock will be a simpler one to represent her care free personality. The alarms represent their similarity's and differences straight away. The coffee cup is important as it will be part of the comic effect as it gets spilt on the woman when the two characters bump into each other.

The address book is the most important prop as it is what sets up questions in the audiences mind like, how will he find her again to give it back, when will they see each other again etc.

Costume:

The man will be wearing semi-smart clothes as it will reveal that he is a hard worker and quite well off. The woman will be wearing casual clothes as it reflects her care-free personality.

Location:

Whilst the titles are coming up it will be filmed in the woman and the mans' separate houses as this will reflect their personalities and reveal stuff about them to the audience. When they meet each other it will be in a nearby park to the bus stop she needs to get to, this is so the comedy side of the film is set up, the woman will be running for a bus and then bumps into the man.

Interesting Shot Ideas

Synopsis

Darren and Emily come from different backgrounds and have completely different personalities; Darren has a top job and owns his own company and thinks very highly of himself whereas Emily is easy going and isn't tied down to any particular job. They are two people who wouldn't meet but destiny got the better of them and their lives clashed when they knocked into each other on their way to work. After an embarrassing recovery of their knock Darren takes a shine to Emily but he is too 'upper class' for her liking and she dismisses him and they both set off on their way but Darren realises she forgot her address book and before he can call her back to give it to her she's gone. The film shows Darren searching through some unusual contacts of Emily's found in her address book, throughout his search he learns a lot about Emily and decides he is going to win her over. Will he find her? Will they get together?

initial ideas

Questionare

Questionnaire:
What age are you? (tick below)
0-15 [ ] 16-25 [ ] 26-45 [ ] 46+ [ ]
What gender are you?
Male [ ] Female [ ]
In the last year, around how many Romantic Comedies did you see at the Cinema?
0-5 [ ] 6-7 [ ] 8-10 [ ] 11+ [ ] can’t say [ ]
Name a Rom-com that you enjoy (please write below)
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Please state 3 reasons you enjoyed this film
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Who would you see as a Rom-Com’s main character?
Young male [ ] Young female [ ] Middle aged male [ ] Middle aged female [ ]
Old male [ ] Old female[ ] Middle aged couple[ ] Old aged couple[ ]

Where would you see a successful Rom-Com being set?
Country [ ] city [ ] abroad [ ] school [ ] other (please specify) _____________________ [ ]
What three words do you think of when you hear “Rom-Com”?
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Please rate the following titles in the order of how interesting they sound
(6 being high, 1 being low)
Out with a Bang { } Candy { } Smoooch { }
Lipstick and vendettas { } The home stretch { } the art of being Anne { }
Finally create your own title idea bellow
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Thank you for your time. :3

Questionare stats

Most popular given film title in all categories: Lipstick and Vendettas

Rom-Com's seen in the last year:- 0-15: 4 16-25: 9 26-45: 6 45+ 3

Males seeing 6+ Rom-Com's: 14% of all males in survey

Most popular Rom-Com: Bridget Jones' Diary

Most seen as main character: young female

Most seen as set in: City

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