Researching Rom-Coms

I watched this video as it shared my genre of rom-com i liked the fact that they used interesting titles, such as the cheerio box and the steam from the mirror, we can see from the series of shots that the guy in the film is late, this is signified by him rushing about and swearing as well as making mistakes due to carelessness we also get the impression that he is quite disorganised as he leaves his book and ultimately he is late as he gets up late for what we presume is work. This is also signified by the suit with a crisp white shirt tie and black shoes as well as a briefcase. Towards the end of the film we see he falls over a stereotypical action performed by actors to make the character look inferior.

Things I will take from this:

interesting titles

Things I will learn from:

Continuity editing - at times it became jumpy and were different speeds in which the actor performed but editing could have helped improve this.




Although this opening didn't directly link to my chosen genre I think it works as it is a romantic drama which in someways still has a lot in common. From this video we have an impression that it is old due to the pixelated footage and because it is in black and white, the clothes that the girl is wearing are not typically from this generation also signifying that it is old, in addition the music is slow with slow notes played on a piano this suiting the moment and the opening perfectly. We move on a couple of shots and find there is a man standing with an army uniform but not one that is recent so still signifying its an old war so possible ww2. If the man standing there was her husband she would run up to him but se doesn't instead she walks slow possibly connoting the fact she is going to receive bad news which in the end she does, as she find out that her husband has died.

Things I will take from this:

The use of appropriate music
Wide range of shots
Narrative enigma as we do not see the soldiers face

Things I will learn from this:

Lack of titles
black and white - if he/she wanted to show it older they could have used sepia to create a better effect





I Liked this rom-com opening because I liked the way they have used interesting titles which personally i think are better than the ones I saw in the first opening as these are more refined 

Practise Shoot

This is a practise shoot of the scrapbook to see how it would work when using the scrapbook in the film. Seeing how long it would take and also see how it would look and fit with the full film idea.

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.

Mise-en-scene Vodcast

This is our mis-en-scene for our film party off to show our ideas for how we are going to portray the characters without using words.

Anamatic

Our anamatic for our film Party off.

Idea3

For the opening scene I hope to change this from the original idea and have it more as an arty piece by converting the original idea from a photo album into a scrapbook idea, because this emphasises her arty and therefore nerdy side. 

film poster

The scrapbook would still be filled with the same pictures but other things like train tickets and music festival wristband etc. 

However unlike in my other posts the titles would be intergrated into the scrapbook like we see for example in napoleon dynamite and to some extent in angus thongs and perfect snogging. 

This will lead onto  some of the images in the scrapbook will seem to 'come alive' turning into flash backs of her efforts to get her love interest for the rest of the opening. 
As i hope to create a love triangle between 2 best friends and a guy. And then this to cause conflict therefore creating tension etc.

Storyboard

These pictures demonstrate our storyboard for our film Party Off.