Inspiration

Today i was watching Pride and Prejudice and i had some inspiration from their opening titles. Unfortunatly i can't find clips of it anywhere! so may have to take soe screen grabs ater on. But it basically shows alot of lace, beads etc. in a apnning shot. I want to draw attention to the detailing of the dress when i make my film.

Just a couple of MP3's

When i was searching for MP3's with no copyright i found these two tracks like the first one more than the second because of the genre of the music. It is a happy song, and i am considereing having it in the background of my film.





I just need to check the copyright of them!

Titles...

Eventually i have put up a title! When i was making my storyboard i decided i needed to do a mock up of the titles so i made this:

Tell me what you think!

Storyboard

Storyboard

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After writing up all my shot ideas his is a PowerPoint presentation of my storyboard because I'm SO BAD at drawing :)

i do have a rough copy of it, and i have it all in my head. I will just print out what i need to do and take it to my filming day.

Shot ideas coming together

Before makingmy storybaord i wanted to write down my stots in order as i find it easier to visulise with a script rather than a story board, so this is what i am going to do today, will update you later....

Mean Girls Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBAYiBoy43M
This is the mean girls trailer!
Im including this in my blog because i LOVE the film strip idea, and how they show the photos from her childhood! If i can find out HOW to do this i will :)

Shot idea!

I love the middle shot of Mirander in the car, if i can find a place in my trailer to include this i definaltly will because it shows class, as Mirander is the passenger in a chauffeured car, you can see the plush interior surrounding her which shows that she is a weathly woman,

Location location location...

Even though I have show you the location in my pitch here it is again! I had to consider my location around how it would portray the mise-en-scene. For exapmle i wouldn't want to film the dress in a busy street where the public will get in the way of the shot etc. so this is a perfect location, in a small town inside a quiet wedding shop.

Institution

Institution
After watching everyone pitches in last weeks lessons I realised I really needed to look into who funds the films in my genre. So I had a look on IMDb at yes 27 dresses, again, and found that 20th Century Fox pictures fund them and other films such as Devil wears Prada and Marley and Me. So I decided that they would be the perfect choice.

20th Century Fox

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Fridays Lesson.... (cont)

Theorists
This is a powepoint of theorists and the way they have inspired me,

Theorists

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Mise en Scene

In Friday’s lesson with Mrs Hammond we were looking at key media terminology so i wanted to put into context what the words mean in my film.

Okay...

Mise-en-Scene. I’m going to have a typical "English wedding" mise-en-scene to ensure this there are many things I have to do.... a church in a traditional English village such s Gilmorton, Kimcote etc. When looking for a picture to show you what they look like I came across this picture...


This is what I think a typical English village should feel. Well how they stereotypically look!


I want to stick to a British designer for the wedding dress such as Charlotte Balbier;
http://www.charlottebalbier.com/

I like Charlottes dresses because they are all unique in their own way, she is a very "english" and her photographs on the website have the same sort of setting that i will be filiming in.
Other costumes will just be normal everyday clothes, but they will show the wealthiness of the characters and will also be steriotypical to the characters which i will talk about in another post but for example emma as a business woman will be wearing up market clothes, but the teenage boys will be wearing typical young clothes.
Ideologies
My film will be building up to a wedding, so my ideologies will be traditional in the way she is getting married in a church in a white dress. But there is a twist as she doesn't have her man yet.

I HAVE A TITLE...

After looking for a long time online in the thesaurus at what wedding means in different languages, which are displayed below....





I have decided to stick to just a basic title that hasn’t been used before. “The Perfect Wedding”.

Shot Ideas- The Devil Wear Prada

I was watching "older" films over the weekend and realised that many of my shot inpirations are from Devil Wears Prada, in this clip you can see Mirander being introduced by taking her sunglasses off, and although this is a streyotypical way to introduce someone in a shot i did like this idea.

I love the way in this clip when Mirander asks seems like a simple task and Andrea puts a comedy spin on it, i would like to do this in my film.

Film Posters- The Dark Knight & 27 Dresses

This is another film poster that I would like to look at, Rather than just sticking to my own genre is wanted to explore more arty ways to make my poster, For example The Dark Knight uses different photos to build up on picture, I love the way they have done this as its eye catching and to take in all the picture you find yourself looking at it for a long time, something the maker defiantly wants us to do. I am inspired by how simple, but effective this poster is and will use the idea of making the poster “arty” in my design. B x

As you can see it is simple, but shows the three main characters, it shows the woman in the middle because she is the connection between the two men. Even though it looks simple the information relevant is still shown on her dress. I think this is very creative, because you are drawn to looking at her dress because its an unusual thing to do.

Film Posters- Notting Hill

This is the Notting Hill film poster, I want to discuss the positives and the negative of it.
Positives:
Julia Roberts is the face you look at first, as the most famous actress on the poster we are more likely to want to see her than Huge Grant, This also reflects on the storyline when she is a famous actress.
The picture quality is very good Julia Roberts looks "perfect" where as Hugh Grant looks quiet rough, which also reflects on the storyline of the film.
The details abut the film are inside the picture, which looks good as it looks like a poster inside a poster...
Disadvantages
It is a strange colour scheme compared to more recent films. As the boldest colour on the page is brown, which isn't the nicest colour to be drawn to.
Because of the style of the poster, being a poster in a poster the text is quiet small, and not as eye-catching as it would of been if it was bigger.

Feedback from my Pitch

Overall my class decided that i should do a different film poster to the one i suggested, showing the full dress. Because otherwise it can be confusing about what the film is about... x

Film Magazines- Initial Ideas

Total Film is one of the worlds leading film magazines. It uses its magazine and its website to advertise the latest films and to store ratings on every film you can imagine. It has official interviews with the stars of the new upcoming films, runs competitions, organises exclusive screenings, has a movie forum and many different features. This is an example of one of their magazine covers; they have many different layers that build up their magazine and feature more than one film on the cover. They have varied the sizes of the text and fonts that make the cover look interesting. The orange contrasts with the blue which draws your eyes to the text, and rather having an eye-catching colour for the name of the magazine they have kept the simple colour of white so your attention is not taken away from the main features. The main picture has some layers in front of it and other behind, I like the way they have done this because the picture looks textured. Rather than using the actor to be in the picture they have used a shot from the film, this works because it attracts the people watching the film rather than just the niche market that will be interested in the actor. I do not think I will be doing an action film so I decided to research something more like the genre of film I wish to do.

Even though this magazine id in a different language the concept of the magazine id more like how I wish mine to be. The main actress again takes up most of the page, so we know what the main storied are going to be about this month. The story in the right hand corner is the only subtitle ion the page, and the other articles are just shown as headings rather than images.
The colours of the text match the pictures the green is similar to Sarah Jessica Parkers eyes, and the red matches the colour of the bottom models lips.
The text style is not very varied, which is a shame because you the page doesn’t look very interesting, also the text size is similar.

My Pitch

The Perfect Wedding

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This is the powerpoint that went alomgside my pitch, the class were very contrustive with their comments, especially when i asked them which poster was suitable. But i will discuss that in another entry

Target Audience...

My target audience will be women, between the ages of 12 (the rating) plus. But also after watching many different trailers I understand that you need appeal to more than one audience, for example this trailer of Gladiator;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvTT29cavKo

Has scenes that appeal to their target audience such as the fight scenes, but they are also reaching for different audiences by showing more romantic scenes, but these were only for split seconds. I will include a scene like this in my trailer. But instead I will use a car, to attract another audience. As my film will be a comedy viewers other than women will be interested in watching it anyway.

Weddings, my head full of weddings!

Today at work we had a huge new delivery of dresses from my favorite designer, Charlotte Balbier, so i decided to take a look at her website and found loads of inspiration for the titles in my film!
The website is:
http://www.charlottebalbier.com/
Take a look!
After i have finished my pitch i need to start making stuff like the titles x

Pitch!

Today i have been starting my pitch!
I have looked at lots of different films in the genre of Romantic comedies and realised i have watched MOST of them!
I also watched 27 dresses, and i love how well my storyline and this film connect.
SO i thought i would upload it onto here...

The Story
27 Dresses follows the adventures of Jane (Heigl), a perennial bridesmaid who's had the word no exorcised from her vocabulary. Jane should be getting paid as a wedding planner but instead her full-time job is working as the right-hand woman to the CEO of an environmentally-friendly clothing and outdoor equipment company. Said CEO, George (Edward Burns), is a hunk and a half who loves dogs, does lots of charity work, and is clueless to the fact Jane has a massive crush on him.

George however isn’t blind to all pretty women. When Jane’s sassy sister Tess (Malin Akerman) comes for a visit, George falls pretty much head over heels for the perky blonde and in record time the two are engaged and Jane’s left to plan their nuptials.

James Marsden enters the scene as Kevin, a newspaper reporter who covers the wedding beat. Kevin’s cynical demeanor masks the fact he writes lovely articles that have brides-to-be vying for his attention. Kevin spots Jane going from wedding to wedding and decides she’s worthy of a special column, one which he hopes will do well enough to free him forever from covering the wedding beat – a job he claims to loathe doing. Despite their opposing outlooks on life, Jane and Kevin develop an uneasy sort of friendship. And because 27 Dresses springs from the romantic comedy cookie cutter mold, that uneasy friendship is, of course, the heart of the story.


I took this storyline from here: http://movies.about.com/od/27dresses/fr/27dresses011708.htm

I have been using this website alot today, for inspirtation on my film.

Plot Line

Here is the plot line, typed up from yesterdays research...
I have decided to make a wedding film based around one woman, most wedding films so this such as the accidental husband and 27 dresses, the brdie has everything planned for her perfect wedding, she has the dress, the bridesmaids, the ring, the wedding car and the invitations. Just one thing is missing. The man. She franticly begins to hunt for him- by going speed dating, using online dating and she even placed an ad in the paper. This will show a comedy aspect because of the situations she manages to get herself in. The mise en scene will be similar to other romantic comedies- in the happy times it will be shot in sunny, summery places and when she is is seen as unhappy it will be set in darker places to show her fall. I will have shots in the wedding shop, outside at the church and in different places linked to weddings. The editing will be fast, so it captures the audinence. I will now put my ideas about target audience etc in a powerpoint that i can then present to the class.

Conclusion....

SO today i did alot of thinking about genre again!
and i came up with the conclusion i would make a wedding film.
Next i need to do some film poster research and start to prepare my pitch, ready for the class....

Wedding Words

This are some words that many people associate with weddings that I may need to include in my trailer. This has helped me to recognise what i need to plan to definatly be in my wedding, becuase without many of these things there would not be a wedding film.

Romantic Comedy- My Favorite Genre

Before going any further with my ideas a want to look at what makes a romantic comedy, This is what the internet came out with "Romantic comedy films are movies with light-hearted, humorous plot lines, centred on romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstacles." I feel that my plot line is light hearted because of the way it is completely made up, no one would completely plan their wedding without a man, even though some women go to the extremes of buying a dress and having their own wedding fantasy it would be very strange for someone to actually do this. It has a humorous plot line and is centred around true love- or a lack of it! And even thought it is not shown in the trailer in the film Emma surmounts most obstacles and comes out a stronger woman at the end. B x

Genre

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Characters
Romantic-comedies are known to have stereotypical characters, as this is part of the comedy aspect, as far as characters go there is;
The Woman;
“unlucky-in-love” they are usually desperate for a husband, wanting the dream wedding and wanting to fall in love. They are quiet often in “love” with someone who they cannot be with because either their best friend is married to them or it is their boss, or another influential man in their life. They go through the heartbreak of them being with another woman, and they eventually realise they are not in love with that man, but the man who has been right there all the time, usually the best friend.
The Man;
This is the man that the woman (above) lusts for, he is influential. Handsome, and completely unaware of her love for him, he thinks she is just caring. He only becomes aware of the situation towards the end of the film- but usually after she has realised she doesn’t love him.

Conclusion for todays antics!

Today i have looked at what genre I will base my film on, and i have decided to make a romantic- comedy! Basically because it got the most votes in the questionnaire. But also because i love romantic comedies!

Romance Films!

This film is a bit longer

And again is very long winded, but you can see that there is romance there and it is amateur.

Comedy Genre

This is a short comedy film i found on youtube, that has been made by people who do not regard themseleves as proffessionals!

unfortunatky when watching it, i got bored after 30 seconds of watching it. So idecided that maybe it wasnt a great idea to make a comedy, because different people have different tastes, and something the writer thinks is funny may not be!

Animation-FIip Book FIlms

If i was to make a animation film i would do it on the style of a flip book, taking thousands of still photos and putting the all together like this video taken from youtube. I really love the creativeness of doing a film like this, and it would be great when its done. But i don't feel that i'm arty enough, or a very skilled artist. So I think its would end up looking like something a two year old had made!

Genre

Before deciding what genre to base my film I asked 50 people what their favorite film was and got these results;

It was clear to me that comedy, romance and animation are all loved by the peoplele i asked. So i need to look at different films in these genres, i will try to look at ameture films so i can get a feel for what i could create.

Romantic Comedy, my favorite genre

Romantic- Comedy is a genre I enjoy to watch.

I also really enjoy wedding films and the whole wedding atmosphere. I have worked in a wedding shop for almost a year and I enjoy hearing funny stories from weddings the brides have attended.
But I don't just like films such as the sloppy love films. But i also enjoy films such as Bride Wars that out a spin on the "perfect wedding" idea.

My favorite wedding film is 27 dresses!

Genres

After studying the different genres of film, I have decided I want to do a romantic comedy, based around a wedding.

I want to look at different styles of romantic comedy, becuase even if they are not based around a wedding they are good to get different ideas from.

1940- The Philedelphia Story -

I want to look at The Philedelphia Story because its is a "old" film, i can then see if i can take any ideas from the past. This film is black and white, because of the age. The actors have “proper” English outfits. The men act differently towards the women in the film, which also show the age of the film because now when you watch wedding films the woman usually end up the "strongest". Even though they are arguing their voices are never raised which also shows a change in society. He is poetic in the way he speaks. They talk about events that have happened in disgust, “you got drunk on champagne” this would now be a regular occurrence. It was interesting to see how romances were made in the 1940's but I do not think that i will use many ideas from it because of how much society and times have changed, the storyline etc ate no longer in the interest of the target audience.

1991- Father of the Bride-



Father of the Bride is still classed as an "old film" because it is 17 years old, but it still has more modern contempory issues in it, such as the Father who never wants his little girl to grow up and leave home. This clip shows a traditional American wedding, it is extravagant and we think it is going to run smoothly. We then see the Fathers worry, as there is a narrartion over the scene which i think is a good concept for a film, but i don't know where i could fit this in my trailerI like the shots that they have in the marrige, for example when you see the rings going onto her hand, i think i will use this idea in my clip, there are a few ideas that i will use in my film tariler although I will not have a wedding scene in my wedding because it will take up time and I will not have the resources.



2008- The Acidental Husband-


I now want to loook specificly at trailers, because i feel i will get more ideas from similar products rather than just film clips. The accidental husband is a film that was recently released, so i hope it will be modern enough for the audience i want my film aimed for.

Th main character is introducted by a single short clip of her, i like this idea because we can instantly see who she is, what her job is so we are learing about her right from the start. There is then a narration over the top of the film clips, i like the way they showed clips that didnt have a lot to do with what the narrator was saying. In true "rom-com" style there is a twist in the story towards the middle, and then the rest if the trailer was about this "twist" this is what i plan to do in my film trailer.

27 Dresses-


27 dresses is the film that inspired me to do a wedding film. Because it has such a big twist! The woman the film is about isn't the one getting married, just the hopeful bridesmaid. At the start of the film they have titles to introduce the the storyline, i think i will use this in my film, but rather than have any narrartion for the first few titles I will just have text. I am also considering my storyline and am now thinking of having a similar theme prehaps.

Introduction to Year 13...

I have decided to do a teaser trailer for a new movie,I will also do a film poster and a film magazine cover to advertise the film.Before I decide on the genre of my film I want to study teaser trailers to look at how they use the trailers to portray the genre of the film. Teasers trailers are used to advertise a film in more depth than a trailer, it is longer and has more clips in that a trailer. Sometimes this means part of the story is given away. They are usually only made by big budget films, so it may be difficult to make one on such a small budget. When looking at film movie trailers first I want to decided which genre of film I wanted to explore more thoroughly. I know that i would be interestedin making- a thriller, a comedy, an action film and a romantic comedy.

I looked at;

Thriller



The thriller trailer I decided to study was The Fugitive, immediately we are on edge because it is a hand held camera, so we are shown the action straight, then as the narrative starts we can begin to understand the basic storyline and it introduces us to the main character, we then see a sequence of flash backs, the “past” in slow motion and the present in real time. It is has face pace editing, which also builds the tension needed for a successful thriller. It has dark and eerie settings show by many point of view shots. The titles show the man still running which I think is very affective because we are still watching him but focus on who the actors are.



Action


In action films the story is told more through physical action rather than dialogue the trailers have to be fast pace. You also find a lot of gadgets in a action film trailer. In the quantum of solace, the music is tense and this helps build suspense, James Bond is introduced a series of fast pace close up and mid shots. The film settings are iconic, place where you would stereotypically expect rich, famous people to be. Also places often used in action films. There is a mid shot of James Bonds face, where the foreground is not clear but we cans see that he is holding a gun- threatening to shoot. The use of a low angled shot gives the “hero” the power. The shots fade in and out, which gives the illusion of someone blinking- and seeing everything. They use an attractive woman to make the film attractive to different audiences and soon after the explosion which excites the audience and breaks the suspense of the first minute. There is hints of romance, this again attracts a different audience and makes it more of a hybrid genre. They have the “bond” theme music which again sets the “tone” of the film because people will will know what to expect.

Comedy


Comedy films generally start off happy and funny, we laugh throughout the main characters hard times and then again when life gets better which is usually when the story ends. So trailers have to show this. They are often focussed on one specific character, in this case Jim Carey is the star. So the trailer is focussed on him, and his jokes. I like the way the titles tell part of the story, you could have the titles on their own, but they are connected through the clips. The clips are funny, which make the audience want to see the film, But often with the comedy genre often the best gags are given away in the trailer. So it is easy to judge from the trailer if you will enjoy the funniest parts in the film. There is some face place editing which shows many different scenes. The music kicks in near to the end of the trailer- when the Jim Carey is having fun, and we know that these clips are taken from later on in the film, when everything has got better for him. As it ends there is the last “gag” which is often what the audience will remember.


Romantic Comedy


comedies are often set around weddings, so I chose to look at a wedding film. The mise-en-scece is bright and cheerful, also what you would expect from a film. As it starts we are lead to believe her wedding is perfect, from the clips and the titles. But then we find out she is just the bridesmaid and the music changes from the “happy music” and there is a slow motion clip of her falling. We then meet the “hero” she is handsome, as we would expect him to be.