Final Idea

So, me and Dani have come up with our final idea! We have decided to do a Rom-Com for our final piece. Below, I will post a picture showing our plot idea's.

From what we have chosen about our ideas and plot, we then, again, looked at some more trailers to help us understand characters. We found out, from the trailers, more about what each of the characters are like in a

typical Rom-Com!

So, they we're our final ideas and character outlines!

But, to also help us with our research of Rom-Com films, we looked at two films and their opening sequence, so roughly about 5-8 minutes. The two films we looked at were Love Actually and Made of Honour. In both films, we focused on what camera angles were used and the type of light used and the sound.

Love Actually:

• Zooms on main characters
• Tilts
• The camera's main focus is on the main characters
• Arc shots
• Tracking
• Mid shots
• Parallel sound
• Long shots
• Back lights, key lights and filler lights
• Digetic sound
• Cuts and Cross-Cutting

Made Of Honour:

• Quite dark, perhaps key and back lighting
• Tracking
• Digetic sound
• Tilts
• Mid shots
• The 180 degree rule is used a lot
• Panning
• Parallel sound
• Long Shots

We have noticed that in both of the films opening sequences we have analysed that it mainly focuses on the more prettier main characters, a lot of the same shots are used and the light is usually mainly dark or quite natural! So, from watching both of the opening sequences of two Rom-Com movies, we are able to take away what type of shots, sounds, and typeof lighting to use to help the audience identify what type of genre it is! Also, from looking at these two films, we are able to identify waht type of audience our final piece would attract more. Out target audience is females aged 14 and above! :-) See you in my next post!