1960s Costume & Hair Ideas

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Conventions of a romantic genre

Narrative
The couple meet and fall in love, but there is someone who disagrees. There is a typical feud, and they break up.


Usual Characters
A boy and a girl. Usually the boy isn’t ‘good enough’ for the girl. The parents who generally disagree. The girl is usually the one who is upper class.


Themes
Love


Settings
romantic locations at some points during the film and upper class locations.


Costumes and Props
Dresses, Flowers, Calm/Sweet Music.


Filming/Editing Techniques
High level lighting when the mood is good on screen,  low level lighting when the mood is bad on screen. Bright colours are used in the girl’s clothes, and the boy has dull colours. Lots of close ups to show the characters facial expressions and two shots to emphasise that they are a couple.

By Bonnie Massey

Our Questionnaire Results

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Our Time Plan

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My Voki

By Bonnie Massey

Shot variety from a romantic film

By Bonnie Massey

Summary on our chosen genre

After we have analysed different genres and looked at the conventions we have decided to make a romantic film opening. We have decided to do this because we have more resources available to make a romance and we think we could be more creative with this genre. We also thought that Sci-Fi and Horror films didn't suit our group and we do not have the resources available to create either genres. We also thought that a romantic story line would be more realistic and therefore easier to create.

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Powerpoint on ideas for our film

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this is our power point on different ideas for our film and what resources and techniques we would need to make it and why we did or didn't choose to do it.

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Preliminary exercise

Our preliminary exercise was to create a two minute clip of someone walking opening a door, walking across a room, sitting on a chair opposite another person and they had to exchange dialogue. the clip had to include shot reverse shots, 180degree rule, continuity editing and match on action.

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Sophie and Amelia are in my group and have analysed other possible film genres that we are thinking about

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Wrong Turn 
Genre - Horror
Target Audience - 18 and over
Camera
Point of view shots used to make us see more of what the character is seeing and makes the mood on screen more intense.
Establishing shots and aerial shots of woods and the camera tracks the trees for a long time showing that it is set deep within the forest and not near any people or roads.
Aerial shot of two people rock climbing in the middle of the woods.
Mise en scene
Someone dies in the first scene indicating that it is a horror because death is a theme.
You can't see the character who is the killer but you hear them laughing and the trees rustle making it a mystery.
Editing
The credits are in block fonts and capital letters with shadows going across it making them more sinister.
Sound
Dramatic and dark music
Scary music when we see the people rock climbing which foreshadows that something bad is going to happen to them and that it is going to have a dark film

By Bonnie Massey

The holiday 
Genre - Romance
Target audience - 12 and over
Camera
Starts with a close up of people kissing - clearly shows it is a romance
Mid shots of different couples
Establishing shots of romantic settings and locations showing it is a romantic film
Films only couples at the start showing it will be about relationships - romance
Mise en scene
Natural lighting
Characters are happy together
Romantic settings and locations
Sound
Romantic non-diegetic music which is calm and parallel.
Editing
Voice over of a woman talking about love and romance
Simple, subtle fonts in the credits which don't dominate the screen so the actors are still being focused on

By Bonnie Massey

50 First Dates 
Genre - Romance
Target audience - 12 and over
Camera
Establishing shots of a beach - romantic
Mid shots of women telling stories about the man they have met on holiday
Mise en scene
Natural lighting
Mostly women and a couple of men making it a romance because it would appeal to women.
Romantic setting
Editing
Cross cuts between women telling a story
Simple credits which don't dominate the screen
Sound
Romantic parallel music which has a holiday feel to it matching the setting

By Bonnie Massey

Legally blonde opening title

This is a film opening which has credits which are similar to the ones we would like to use in our film.
12 seconds into the clip there is an effect which looks like the title is being written on the screen which lasts for 6 seconds. 20 seconds into the clip you can see that there are hearts on top of the "i" letters on screen. We would like to use this because we feel it fits into the romantic genre.

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Analysing films.


Is the genre made clear?

• film one - yes - possibly horror - phsycological
• film two - yes - thriller/horror.

How do we know this? What conventions are used?

• film one - death is a theme, not a typical horror because there isn't blood or gore and natural lighting is used. Psychological horror rather than a slasher.
• film two - there is whispering at the start and sinister music. later in the clip we see the child has a bloody arm and is injured. not a normal or nice child - seen as a bad character.

 What else do the audience find out in the first 2 minutes?

• film one - one of the characters dies, its a sad film because he has no family that want anything to do with him. Kate Hudson is the protagonist and works in a hospice. Maybe a ghost storyline/something to do with the supernatural.
• film two - a child hurt himself. It is very tense at the start, a stranger helps him - protagonist, set in America and the child makes the atmosphere awkward.

By Bonnie Massey

Brief

Preliminary exercise: Our preliminary exercise is to create a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule


By Bonnie Massey