Story Boards

Here are the story boards for our opening sequence. Whilst drawing and annotating our initial story boards we also did and extra two story boards with messy and tidy ideas for our characters. We will use some of these whilst filming to enhance the mise en scene.

Lauren

Risk Assessment Form

Here are the scanned Workplace Risk Assessment Forms we have signed and dated to ensure we understood the Health and Safety regulations whilst filming

Lauren

 

The Choice of Music

The reason for us choosing this song is because of the lyrics they tie in with the story line of our opening sequence the song is by Golden Silvers and its called Arrows of Eros. The band is unsigned to any record label and is only very small but are being told they will make it big later this year. 

This is the song below:

The lyrics of this song are:

There was a girl who lived in London town.
The scenes and sounds, they would only bring her down
She had polka dots and rubies in her dreams,
French fantasies on cinema screens...

And she knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.
Wouldn't it be sweet if she could die from a broken heart?

There was a boy who lived inside his head.
He couldn't face the world, so he turned his back instead.
He couldn't see in front of his eyes;
His fantasies of outlaws had him hypnotised...

And he knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.
Wouldn't it be sweet if he could die from a broken heart?

Oooh...

There was a boy and girl who fell in love:
They both were in love with the stars and sky above,
Cinderella, cigarettes and scenes from the past
Were chasing them too fast for this love to ever last...

And they knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.
Wouldn't it be sweet if they could die from a broken heart?

So basically with the choice of this song it shows a boy and a girl of different energy's and thinking's. It shows how they fall in love and everything ends happily ever after and shows how opposites attract. The mood of the song is very upbeat and makes you feel quite happy. This is what we are aiming for as we want it to match our genre which is a romantic comedy. The words of the song talk about a girl and a boy, who are different, and we want to portray our characters as opposites so this fits well with our opening sequence.

Gemma & Grace

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Institution

We have decided to create a British romantic comedy. Working Title Films are a production company famous for making films such as Bridget Jones, Notting Hill and Love Actually, which are all British romantic comedies. We have researched their company and found out who they are and what they do. What we found was that in total they have made 109 films since 1984. Several of these being the most popular British films up to now. Their biggest hits to date are:

Four Weddings and a Funeral




Notting Hill




Love Actually





Lauren, Grace and Luke

Preliminary Task

Actors: Grace and Luke

Directed by: Lauren and Gemma

This is our first attempt of an opening sequence it went well but we have realised some things that we need to take into account when we are making our own opening sequence.

The plot of this opening sequence was a job interview where the interviewee was very nervous and scared about the job. We also used a number of different shots such as long shots close ups extreme close ups and medium shots. we need to improve on our shots were to short and we needed to have more footage. We have also stuck to the 180 degree rule and the point of interest making the opening sequence more realistic and believable 

Overall our first opening sequence was a success but for our main task we will need to improve on some mistakes we made.

Luke Gemma Grace.

Characters

To the left I have drawn the two characters in our opening sequence. Here are some of our first initial ideas of what the characters would be like, we jotted these down at the begining so we are able to expand from there:

Male Character (Luke's characteristics): a 'neat freak', glasses, room nice and tidy, hair pushed to the side, geeky, everything organsied, suit & tie
I think that these are stereotypical functions of what someone would describe a 'geek' to be. With our sequence we wanted to make it clear what type of personalities out characters are meant to be portraying to make it easier for the audience to understand. This is why we have made it obvious who the character is meant to be, with Luke we have done this through costume (suit), mise en scene(tidy room), and the characters actions and movements (smug look).

Female Character (Gemma's characteristics): messy room, quite scruffy appearance, dressed in random clothes, tights & socks with shoes etc, clothes thrown around the room, messy hair, loud music

Lauren

Target Audience and Genre

Target Audience:
The tagert audience that we have choosen for our opening sequence is mainly aimed at teenagers and young adults, mainly woman will be interested in our opening sequence but males will also be attracted to this opening sequence. After researching the BFI Handbook 2005 this is what i discovered.
Regular cinemagoers 2003
7+ 25%
7 to 14 38%
15-34 41.5%
35+ 14%

As you can see the most popular age group that are regular to the cinemas is people aged 15-34 we are going to aim our opening sequnce at this age group because it could potentially have the most interest from the public.

Genre:

The genre that we have choosen for our opening sequence is romantic comedy. This genre is popular at the moment and will appeal to a wide range of people. It will have the conventions of funny moments but is based on romance. There are always typical conventions to a romantic comdey an example of this is 50 First Dates starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrimore where the man falls in love with the girl of "his dreams" who he has never met, he runs in to troubles in trying to make her fall in love with him and along the way there are many mess ups and comical situations that he has to deal with. Like all romantic comdeies there is a happy ending and they both end up falling in love and live happily ever after. 50 First Dates is very similar to other recently relseased romantic comedies and is alot similar to what we are trying to achieve, it's funny and exciting but also emotional for the audience when the two people iinvolved end up falling for one another. Our opening sequence will be slightly different to other romantic comedies because the two main characters are opposites and are not the kind of couple you would expect to see together in a snese they could be seen as binary opposites. The boy in our opening sequence is more like a girl and visa versa the girl is a bit like a boy as if they have changed personalities, where as in most romantic comedies the couple don't at first realise they have the same things in common but it turns out they do.


Luke