Reasearch and Filming

We Went out for a reckie trip as we needed to decide on the location for the opening scene of our film, after looking around we collecting an amount of pictures: we have yet to decide what pictures are going to be the area we actually film in, as there was so many to decide from .

As we were out we took the time to film some of our opening scene to get a quick glimpse of what our film would like, we will edit it to make sure that everything is okay and then we will go out again and re film it as we haven't decided if there area we filmed it in is the area that we going to use.

Background Song

We decided to analyse some music that we thought may relate to the film that we have chosen to do. We have looked at a few songs, but we came down to just two. To get the right song for your film you have to look if it will fit in and will relate to the film that your doing as it will sound odd otherwise.



'Maybe' and 'Wherever you will go' are the two songs that we chose, we are debating whether which one is the right choice for the scene in our film; Analysing the aspects for each song is very easy we've come to conclusion that they are completely different as they have different speeds, type of lyrics,and instrumental. Considering this we finally decided to use 'Wherever you will go' as we feel this will relate best.

There are two scenes in our film that need a background song, we have chosen 'Wherever you will go' for one of the scenes and now we need another one; This scene is different as this scene shows happy emotions so we need a song that will relate to this so we were analysing this two songs so that we can decide.



as a group wqe analysed the Pro's and Con's of each of these of the songs and we have finally come to a conclusion; 'Kiss Me' is the song we have chosen, we have chose this because the scene has intimacy which 'Wherever you will go' relates to the scene.

Research And Planning

 

http://www.imdb.com/list/Cylzo7wmyZI/

i had a look at the website, and was analysing the ratings that the films where getting, which i noticed that the genre romance/comedy is struggling to produce films that are reaching high ratings for example the picture above shows the average ratings that the films where getting.

Research And Planning

Presenting our presentation to the class was very beneficial for us as we gained some critical and positive advice about three ideas that we produced; from the advice that we got we chose a Rom-com as the class preferred this, and it was easier and was more "attention grabbing"

Questionaire

What’s your favourite genre? (circle your answer)

· Horror
· Comedy
· Romantic
· Action

What’s your favourite film? (please write in the space below)

Do you like your opening scene to be...? (circle your answer)

· Give great detail into characters
· Start a dramatic event (death, action or fight)
· Slow build up to a main event in the film
· Show a event then go back in time to see the build up of the event
· To set the scene

What is your age? (so we know our target audience- write below)


Are you male or female? (so we know our target audience - write below)

We will hand out this questionaire to the general public which will give us an insite into what our target audience will be and what our movie genre will be.

Please fill in, we would like as much analysis as possible.

Research and Planning

 

Here is a list of the directors and the films that they have produced, but because we are interested only in Rom-Coms i have only selected the ones that are related to us. As we are doing a Rom- Com if  we were to sell our film and have it massed produced these are the directors that specailise in the genre for our film and the films that they have produced could give us clues on how to make a succesful opening scene.

Idea's and Planinng

Enlarge Image

The image above is a detail description of what will ahppen throughtout the film, not just the opening scene, as it is very detailed it will include everything that will help us produce the film; for example lighting, props, setting and misc on scene. When filming our Final project this will be a very important part for us, as this will be the base idea for the filming which we will refer to it when we go to film it.



Our finial idea is similar to the 2006 film John Tucker must die.

John Tucker must die is a Rom Com based in America. It's main story line is that 3 ex-girlfriends of John try to set him up with the new girl in school so he can have his heart broken, so then he will understand how it feels for him to do it to all three of them.

Our idea however is about one boy who is trying to get revenge on his ex-girlfriend for messing him around and no caring or taking his emotions into consideration.
Although our ideas are similar they have completely different concepts and will be represented differently.

IDEA 3 KARMA

karma was another film idea that we produced, the genre is Romcom; this was the genre that we thought wee would enjoy the most and would enjoy filming. Feedback was given when we produced our presentation to the class, it was very useful, it was mainly positive but we did get a negative but that could be worked on, and changed to a positive. A basic and detailed description was posted on our blog to show and represent the ideas and films relating to the film itself.

IDEA 2 LOST TIMES



Lost times was another film idea that our group produced, the genre of the film is a Romance. We did like this idea as we prefer to do a  Romcom or just romance but from the analysis and the feedback that was given, there was many faults with this idea and required allot of work to ensure that the opening scene would of good quality and interest the audience.

IDEA 1 CHANGING IDENTITIES

Changing Identities was a film idea, the genre was an Action Thriller. We decided against this film was because the hassle or difficulty contacting the police about allowing the props on the streets e.g. knifes. Changing Identities would have been a really easy film to shot as it would be a lot of jump cuts.

Timeline seconds

0 - Film Star productions, names of characters

15- Music in background, snap shots of pictures (8) Forming a collage

35- Walking to Joe’s house, I walk off

45 - Joe match on action into his bedroom, look at picture medium close up on him

105 - Fading memory of Joe and Gina, to conclude with a medium close up of Joe

130 - Joe ripping picture in half, placing it on side

140  - Main title, split picture with the individually cut out letters of KARMA and then blank screen

200 - Blank

Opening scene for our film

Karma

Basic Description

Romcom ..

•Varies shots of photos of two characters when loved up.

•Shot of characters walking towards each other looking loved up as camera fades.

•One shot of characters  picure tore apart.

The title scene will have a medium shot, to close up of a picture and title.

Detailed Description

Romcom ..

In the opening scene, we will start off with our titles, we will introduce the production name
Title 1 - Film Star Productions
This will include background music
Title 2 - Chartacters names
then we will do close ups of some snapshots of Geoffrey Palmason(Joe Shaw) and Isabel Thomson (Gina Fort) in memories of there relationship. A short memory will then show Geoffrey Palmason(Joe Shaw) reminiscing about old times with Isabel Thomson (Gina Fort) fading camera shot will show the image as distant memory. A medium shot of Geoffrey Palmason(Joe Shaw) ripping a picture of him and Isabel Thomson (Gina Fort), so build up to title there will be a close up of the ripped image with KARMA in individual letters.