Pitch Romantic Genre

Visual Representation of The Bestfriend

Visual Representation of The Girlfriend

Shooting Schedule & Timeline

Script

Visual Representation of the Hopeless Romantic

Visual Representation of Target Audience

Prelium Task and Evaluation

Evalutation

From this activity, we have learned how to incorporate different types of shots for example 180 degrees rule, match on action and a shot reverse shot. Two of us filmed the two parts and two of us were in the production which allowed us to try role that we wanted. We filmed the sequence in different parts, using different camera shots in order for us to create continuity and smoothness to our product. Also, this gave us a starting point of knowing how to film effectively especially a 'conversation' and to apply these skills knowledge to our actual opening.

Opening Ideas

Opening Ideas

- The opening should consists of long shots of the city (Setting) 

- The guy is getting ready to propose to the girl but we see that his phone is vibrating whilst his girlfriends is calling him, but he blocks it and calls the restaurant to prepare for the reservation for the night he has planned for her and the adrenaline kicks of with a series of 'non diegetic sound; and jump cuts of him getting ready to build the anticipation in the beginning. 

- We could start a time lapse of the city with a depressing piano music and then we go to the main character as he narrates his story about being heartbroken and flashback to all the happy memories he had with the girlfriend and then back to reality of how he is showing how much his life change (loosing his job etc.) "How could you move on from  a long term relationship?" and then thats when the beginning ends.

- It starts off of with the guy shouting, and begging on the phone and he gets angry, there is a series of shots of him drinking, smashing bottles on the ground whilst his best friend drinks with him but then tells him to stop.

- An opening of a guy walking in the city streets ready to surprise his girlfriend, accopanied through an introduction of his girl bestfriend and then the girl breaks up with him.

- It could be home, walking on his way with a flower on his arms whilst he slouching with a bear on his hands, and he calls one of his best friends on the hone and then does a 'dramatic wall scene' (or maybe when he gets the break up message) 

- It could start off with an argument of both couples whilst we can see that the guy has already prepared a lot for her but since the girl has been so aloof she says she cant make it again and the guy throws a tantrum and she ends up admitting that there's some else. (Two differnt shot os their convos) and whilst the call ends we get a series of timelaps of the sky whilst the guy sleeps on the sofa filed with beers around him and he calls her again but the calls have been blocked.

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Character Profile - The Girlfriend

Character Profile - The Girlfriend

Name: Kate Wood
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Filipino 
Class: Middle Class

Attire: Elegant with a slight twist

Her aims are to look sassy and classy, she often loves to dresses with boots. Her hair is naturally wavy and falls perfectly. She loves to stay in trend and is kept updated. She wears leather jackets, and ripped jeans where a lot of guys court her despite knowing she already has a boyfriend. Also, she loves putting her hair into messy buns whenever she jams with Drew because she can sing and play the piano. She knows everything about make up and knows all the tricks up her sleeves, such as contouring eye-shadow, everything. Moreover, she' s known to be an art student and is very good at painting.

Personal Qualities

- The Favourite Girl
- Trustworthy
- Indecisive
- Funny
- Sassy
- Confident
- Supportive
- Caring
- Hard Working
- Friendly
- Make up ready

Back Story 

She's adopted by British parents and longs to find her real parents as she's getting older. She's been very aloofs towards Drew for a couple of days and have been very secretive which is very unlike of her and Drew is getting even more worried. Kate is very hard working and she's currently doing a part time job as art teacher at teacher at a primary school to gradually save up money to travel and explore the world after her last year in university.

Character Profile - The Bestfriend

Character Profile – The Best friend

“The one who’s always been independent but takes care of everyone" 

Name: Zoe Smith
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Filipina
Class: Middle Class

Attire: Simple 

- Her fashion is all about comfort but not the fashion trends of what she thinks looks good, but at time she shows a sense of style when she feels like it.- Others describe her to look 'boyish' (simple t-shirt and jeans) -She often leaves her hair down or put it into a ponytail sometimes because she contributes to a lot of extracurricular activities outside school.- She doesn't wear too much make up - Wears Glasses - Jumpers are her best friends

Personal Qualities

- Funny 

- Understanding 

- Reliable 

- Independent 

- Trust worthy 

- insecure about herself 

- Working a part time job 

- She does volunteering at a charity shop 

Backstory 

Her and Drew' s families are very close and they both moved to England together and they have been friends ever since they have been born. Her parents have been divorced and this has been a traumatic time in her life, which is one of the reason she avoids to fall in love with anyone or with anyone who dares to court her. She's the opposite of Kate. Some people may not like her because she is blunt and highly opinionated which people take in a bad way.

Character Profile - The Hopeless Romantic

Character Profile – Main Character – Hopeless Romantic

“He’s typically known as the nice guy who does everything for everyone”

Name: Drew Evans
Age: 22
Ethnicity: Mixed Asian 
Class: Higher Class
Attire: 2 types 

Day to Day Attire

-       Wears Glasses
-       Well dressed
-       Quite Preppy
-       Wears Semi Formal Clothes such as:
-       Black Boots
-       Hair Up
-       Wears a branded perfume
Jumper with a polo shirt inside = to connote that he’s from wor. This is also to show that he’s smart and intelligent which portrays him to be the perfect guy or the prince charming 

After the Break Up

-       Wears Glasses
-       Black Skinny Jeans
-       Jumper
-       Normal Jeans
-       Vans
-       Hair Down
 To connote that he is a mess, he doesn't care about what he wears any more because he doesn't have anyone to impress and his low self-esteem, pride and dignity has gone down the drain.

Personal Qualities 

-       Gets along with everyone
-       Sincere
-       Confident
-       Well Respected
-       Popular
-       Musician
-       Sociable

-  Funny
-       Handsome
-       Misunderstood

Back story

He comes from wealthy family but his whole family lives in america but he wanted to study and become independent without having to demands the expectations of his parents.Therefore, he went to study abroad and he often avoids his dad from follow his dads footsteps on taking over his big company. He is very well respected by others as he is a head commitee of movement that mainly involves music and has a passion for it too. He is a musician and does gigs from time to time whenever he feels down. For now, he has a girlfriend who his going to propose to soon because he feels that she's the one and their often classed as the 'perfect couple' by others.

Analysis of Results ( Survey Monkey Audience)

Analysis of my Questionnaire at Survey Monkey

1)    Are you a female or Male?

In a stereotypical film the majority of the target audience are associated with women as romantic genres are known to be every emotive and inspiring which women are known to be and what they expect from it. Also, this is due to the society’s dominant ideology that women are represented to be emotional and loves to talk about their ‘love life’ most of the time which would make it more relatable for them. The results show that 67% were Females and 32% were males. Even though, the majority of the audience are Females, I plan to reach this questionnaire to a diverse to get a variety of answers to help me create the opening of my film from a mixture of expectations. This is because I will be switching gender roles of what a conventional romantic genres are to my film opening. However, as the dominant ideology of men being smarter than women, the main character in my synopsis will be a boy and since he will the character that I will direct the audience’s attention he will be the one who narrating the story to women and teach them a lesson about the realities of the guys in the world. Therefore, having a mixed audience will able to give me an impression of how they feel personally without having to mention names so that I can portray my target audience’s expectations with a slight twist but have the main stereotypical representations so that I’m able to appeal to wider range of audience.  Also, by having a mixture of a female and male audience, this enables me to show their values and beliefs to one another.  For example: how nice guys are usually interpreted.

 2)    Specify your age

The varies from 17-18-30+, This is because I aim to appeal to an older audience this time which would inspire me to create a narrative that would be more than just the conventional ‘teenage rom-com’ and make it relatable to an older audience. Therefore, this suggests that my narrative is needed to be ‘mature ‘and the age range in this topic makes suggests that the settings of my opening should be from University to working life. So that the audience are able to identify mise en scene to be familiar to them because they associate themselves with this on the daily basis.

3)    Which of the following best describes your current relationship status?

As we can see that most of my target audience are single (58%), in a relationship (38%), married (0%).  Some of the audience that are were maybe once in a relationship or some may want to know what it feels like and through. Therefore, I aim to bring back happy memories of being in a relationship and rekindle these moments in their minds which would make it more relatable to them to anticipate of what this love story will be like. We also have an audience who are in a relationship, which helps me outline of what being in a relationship feels like to them based on the later questions in my questionnaire

4)    Please describe you Race/Ethnicity

    A diverse community, this suggest that my target audience will have a range of beliefs, opinions and values about the characters and the way this love story will be set about the ‘romantic genre’ and their expectations. Their beliefs and expectations will help me create a variety of ideas to piece my opening and represent this through mainly the character and their lifestyles.

 5)      Where do you stereotypically associate romantic films being set?

The result shows that the most common setting was the ‘city’ (55%) because within all the film opening texts that I have analysed where get a series of a very long shot of cities in the beginning, which means that it’s very chaotic and filled with drama as the city is mainly associated with different lifestyle and people and in films it’s conventions are that people live in a very small world which leads to possible conflicts which again creates enigma.

6)      Who is often your favorite character in the romantic genre?

We are able to see that the most appealing character ‘55%’ is the best friend followed by the hopeless romantic ‘47%. This tells me that these two characters will be seen in the film opening because they very significant to my target audience and their expectation. I will have to make a narrative that will be based among these characters playing a big part on each other’s lives.  

 7)      Define the ‘Perfect Relationship’ that you usually associate with the     romantic genre or personal life?

For this questionnaire, I made it into an open question so that my target audience can freely express their personal opinion so that I am able to gather these ideas and generate a deeper connection between through the characters that are mostly anticipated by the audience. In this question, I was able to identify very conventional iconographies such as ‘Expensive Romantic Dates’, ‘Love at first sight’, ‘Movie, dates and dinner’ and most importantly most of my target audience said that the perfect relationship always starts off as friends and they later on become more than friends and grow together of a perfect relationship. One of my ideas are to show the ‘perfect relationship’ in the beginning as my synopsis will be based about a guy who can’t move on from the ‘perfect relationship’ that he’s in which is common for both female and male audiences.

8)      Define your ‘ideal’ love interest in a film?

This is an open question so that I am able to get a variety of answers and with the female answers we able to see that their ideal man is: handsome, cute, funny, intelligent, humble and most referred to the character ‘Noah’ from the notebook, and Mr Darcy because he seems to be misunderstood.

 9)      Who do you usually like to watch romantic films with?

Most of my target audiences said they like to watch with friends so that my whole opening has to be very memorable.

10)    What was the most memorable heartbreak you've ever had? (If experienced and no names have to be specified) 

This question was an open question to help me from my narrative based on some real experiences since the main theme of my film will be ‘heartache; this enables me to get different perspective so that I will be able to show these experiences to show different types of ‘heartbreaking events’ the most common ones were ‘rejection’, ‘betrayal’ and ‘cheating’. 

Synopsis

Synopsis

This  will be based on a once 'perfect' couple who has been together for 7 years which will take you back to their college and university days from where they sparked off. One day, the the boy decided to pop the question to the girl but before he could the girl broke up with him with the excuse that she's sick of him and for being with him for 7 years. Later he finds out  that she has been on a secret relationship with the guys best-friend and turns out to be settling in with him. As the guy is traumatised and heartbroken, he is slowly loosing everything around him such as his job, apartment, pride, confidence and self control. He ends up living at his other best friends house for awhile until he is settled again  and moves out right after, as their bond gets stronger and stronger, their feelings grow and starts to show for one another and we explore the unspoken words between them as the guy heals from his traumatic past and broken heart. This explores the stages of moving on from a break up and the decisions we have to make for our loved ones.

Romantic Genre Documentary