Who Would Watch A Rom Com?

Conventionally we are targeting a teen audience as this is where most Rom-Coms are aimed at, however we also noticed from further research that they are also targeted at people who are in a long term relationship or marriage which reduces the chances of it being a teen audience therefore it is good to target a secondary audience that being 24-35.


However we think it is wiser to stick to a target audience we can relate to and know what they like than be adventurous and not produce a film that is as good.


For this we think our idea we need to aim at a teenage market at someone who may enjoy things like Wild Child, however we also think it is important to remember our indie background so it is important not to over aspire therefore we looked Submarine to take ideas from that and look at a film that was digitally produced. 

Additional Rom-Com Research

Search

This is what we typed in to google to get our research it brought up 2,670,000 items.




Sky Movies

We looked at the top box office films that had made a good profit.

BoxOfficeMojo

we looked at recent box office hits and the earliest one with the highest box office hit was Silver Linings Playbook (2012)  which was rated number 12 

Submarine


we thought it was appropriate to research products that were like ours and look at submarine (ayoade, 2010) we thought this was interesting film to research as it showed us a digitally produced film that was produced on a small scale budget.


About Time


We thought it was also a good idea to compare it to efforts from working title another 'british' film company however this one had a larger budget therefore better quality etc. And therefore something we could aspire to.

Initial Idea of Target Audience

We thought about our target audience but came to the conclusion we wanted something that we would enjoy going to see. Therefore we needed to be the target audience the same age as ourselves. 



Which would mean a target audience of 15-24 which we thought would be appropriate as we also know this is the age group that visits the cinema the most, and this would also be the age that our characters would be in our film as we would find it harder getting younger or older actors as we are a micro budget production company and would have to pay for older and potentially younger actors which is something we don't want to be doing the the expense isn't necessary. 


Our genre choice also is popular amongst teenagers so we feel this helps anchor our choice too. We have also chosen to set our film in a school so therefore trying to attract an audience that is not at school is silly therefore the 15-24 will incorporate students at school, sixth form, college or university which keeps many 'doors' open. At the end of the day everyone has been to school so will be able to relate to our film in some way. However we took ideas and inspiration from films we had looked at in detail. 

We thought it would be easier to base our target audience on films we had already seen as if we are taking inspiration from them we feel it must be important to carry on the same target audience as it must be the same or close to theirs. Therefore it was important to look at the films we had looked at in detail therefore we chose ones that we liked and enjoyed and all roughly targeted the same age range for audience. 

Genre Research: Submarine,2010

Submarine 

Richard Ayoade, 2010

Production: 

• Warp Films, Weinstein Company, The, Film4, UK Film Council, Wales Creative IP Fund, Film Agency for Wales, Optimum Releasing, Protagonist Pictures, Red Hour Films, Warp (Submarine)

Budget: N/A; UK box office:£ 41m

RottenTomatoes.com81%; IMDB7.3

Things We Hope To Use:

Some of the interesting shots and some of the scene ideas.

For one of the shots of our Geek character we hope to use the front of school for some of the scenes of him coming into school.we will use this location for its effect with the iron gates as we think this could create some nice and interesting shots to keep the audience interested. We thought this maybe a good way to do this. 

We also want to have a dramatic effect of shame or embarrassment for this we are thinking something like this but maybe not as extreme as for the many takes and time that it would take that we don't have but we hope to re create something like this. 

We also want to create school scenes of some sort with him in the classroom however we also think it might be a nice idea to show the girl being bullied and having problems at school and therefore it would be nice to try copy and re create some of these scenes and maybe add our own twist on them.

When researching this film and watching it we liked the use of this angle to represent her power over him and to make him look smaller, less dominant and innocent whilst making her look powerful and authoritarian. We thought we might try use a high angle in our film. 

We thought that these school scenes although they were not really what we wanted it gave us inspiration to do something along the same lines however we are not sure what. We might use it to do school scenarios but we dont want him sitting in a classroom as we want it to be snappy as we don't have a lot of time to do something like that. 

OpeningEG3: Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee

Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee

Shane Meadows,2009

Film Poster

Production:
Big Arty Productions Warp Films Budget: £48K; US box office: $3.5m

RottenTomatoes.com 86%

IMDB 6.2

SUMMARY/IDEAS I MIGHT USE:

using 'creative' idents or the use of the directors name going twice once at the start of the titles and once at the end. And maybe using the same theme with the idents as with the titles

Idents/Titles:

Idents:

Idents

the idents used have been adapted around the genre of the film - that being cartoon - jokes - and not serious giving it a 'silly' tone. Everything looks like it has been drawn with a black fine liner. This signifies artist and a creative person which we see when the film starts as they have shown a person who likes music and appears to like living on the road.

Titles:

same applies to the titles in connection with the idents however the director - Shane Meadows has been mentioned twice once at the start of the titles and once at the end of the titles. 
In order of apperance:
Starring Paddy Considine
Scor-zay-zee
Olivia Colman
Featuring Richard Graham
              Seamus O'Neil
With Arctic Monkeys
Set Designer Alex Collins
Sound Danny Crowley
Camera Dean Rogers
           Shane Meadows
Editor Richard Graham 
Line Producer Clare Slessor
Excecutive Producer Steve Beckett
Original Music By  Scor-zay-zee
Devised by Paddy Considine
                Shane Meadows 
Producer Mark Herbert
Director Shane Meadows
 
 

Sound:

Elements of the Sound Mix:

Opening Scene

Analysis:

Opening Scene: 

• The crowd is cheering - diegetic sound
• battered caravan - rubbish on the floor 
• Le D.I.P above the door of the caravan - duct tape with paper stuck above the door
• 'star' gets out - wearing trackies - baseball cap - which reads the slogan 'kids need pugs not drugs' - not typical or stereotypical celebrity
• the caravan is situated in the back of an industrial estate connoting its not 'hyped' 'classy' or 'upmarket' - lorries visible



Industrial park

• camera men shown like theyre being filmed - home video? - Band video?

Opening Scenes: 

Home video theme again 
outside one of the band members houses on his street 
not typical celebrity style home/area 

Walking on stage

the street has been shown as - rubbish on floor - working class - red bricked terrace housing - this being associated with cheaper housing and terrace housing being cheaper too - old cars not your stereotypical rich person with expensive cars outside - run down area maybe with abit of poverty - general weather appearance of dark clouds and grey sky and stance showing its not the wealthiest of areas because in typical britain especially in american films it is always shown as either pouring it down with thunder or sunny weather.
door gets jammed showing its not in the best quality showing its age
the paint on the door is shabby and chipping 
not a standard door handle - cheaper 
door opens - holds puppet scares audience - laughs - this showing a comical side to the film - comedy emerging 
talks about how he thought the film would be a big movie set - and therefore proving this film isnt worth millions - background noise created through passing lorries - not typical in a film - stating it is more documentary style than a film showing it is made on a cheaper budget

Mise-en-scene: 

house is messy - jackets slung over coat dummies - cardboard shoe boxes containing trainers probably due to the Adidas logo on one of them showing theyre not the typical celebrity with the louboutins and the jimmy choos on show. 
simple living area no fancy 'trinkets' - just the basics 
smoking in the house is a general trade of people who are not very well off and live in poor areas 
kitchen is a mess - food and drinks everywhere - rubbish everywhere - knives on the worktops 

the clothes are simplistic - t shirt - beanie - washing machine broken - dirty clothes shown - at one point one isnt wearing trousers 

scor - acts like a typical teenager - headphones on - unmade bed - stuff on the floor - hat on inside - wearing a tracksuit

Soundtrack:

Showing the musical talent of the singers in the band. showing the comical side as it contains humour within the rap - this is during the idents and titles using audio-bridge this all relates to the film and genre

TisEng: A Typical 'British' Film?

This is England 

Film Poster

Shane Meadows, 2006


Production Companies:

• Warp Films
• Film4
• Em Media
• Big Arty Productions
• Optimum Release 
• Screen Yorkshire
• UK Film Council

Also Directed:

• Small Time; 1996
• A Room for Romeo Brass
• Once Upon a Time in the Midlands; 2002
• Dead Mans Shoes; 2004
• Somers Town; 2008 
• Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee; 2009
• The Stone Roses: Made of Stone; 2013

Social Realism Definition: (As a genre) 

Film makers who draw attention to everyday conditions of the working classes and the poor. 

Social Realist Films I've Seen:

Kez

• Box Office Estimated at: £1,315,593
• Length of Run: 4 weeks 
• Starting Screen Number:62
• Highest Screen Number:151

Money US:

• 
  
• Box Office Estimated at: $320K
• Length of Run: 15 weeks 
• Starting Screen Number: 1 
• Highest Screen Number: 14

BoxOfficeMojo.com 

• UK Box Office: $3,144,754
• Sweeden: $1,375,066
• France: $1,408,593

Facts and Interesting Points: 

The learner car that combo drives has a 2005 tax disc displayed on the window screen.

The takeaway that shaun passes has a telephone number starting 0115 this area code did not come into effect until the early 1990s 10 years after the film is set. 

'Since Yesterday' by strawberry switchblade can be heard on the radio although it wasn't released until November 1984.