musica

I have been looking and researching music I want to be in the background of our speech, it will need to be copyright free and have no singing. We want it to have an indie feel, but not be too depressing.

I'm looking on jamendo although there are millions of songs on their. At the moment I like the thought of a song like Buddy Holly's Everyday 

or The Drums 


I like the backing instruments as they are upbeat but not your mainstream R&B!

Final preparations!

Camera
The camera we will be using tomorrow is the Canon 1100 D. We borrowed it from school, and a lot of the students have said it is brilliant quality and easy to use.

As well as a camera we obviously have a tripod.

We have decided to use Effie's iPhone 4 to take evidence of filming, and I would like to make a few vlogs during our time filming. We thought using a phone is a good way to show our abiblity of using different media devices.

Props
Below is a list of props we will need for tomorrow:

• Socks
• Toilet Roll (titles)
• Cereal box (maybe titles)
• Remote
• Tissue Box
• Marley & Me DVD
• Ben & Jerrys (Empty... yummmmm!)
• 'Witty' Tee- shirt
• Present + wrapping paper (maybe)
• Plates and dinner (yum again!)
• Bin
• Mum and couples at beginning
• Beer, popcorn, poker board etc. for lads night in.
• Fake private messaging to Sam

ANIMATIC!

The Script is finally here!

Script

Our lovely protagonists!

Scriptamungo! 

So we have just finished writing our opening monologue which includes our protagonists pet hates of all things men! It took just over a week to complete this as all three of us have turned out to be perfectionists! Unfortunately we havent had the chance to write our script up yet but it will be on here soon. 

On the other hand we have successfully found our female protagonist and her dreaded grousome lover! 

Female Protagonist REBECCA STAMATIS

So sticking to our indie rom com conventions we wanted our main protagonist to be ordinary looking and naturally pretty. Fortunately my best friend Becca seems to fit this pitch well...

Actresses that I think share the same kind of features and conventions as Becca are: 

Carey Mulligan

Zooey Deschanel 

Audrey Tautou

The Boyfriend SAMUEL WHITE

Instead of having a grubby, unattractive boyfriend we decided to go for a boy who seems good looking and a real 'dream boat' on the outside but really he is just a horrible selfish person. We decided to change this so our first boyfriend (Sam) and our male protagonist (who doesn't appear in the opening) contrast each other. 

Sam has been used in many media projects before so he should be comfortable behind the camera and will know his stuff!

Actors that influenced our decision for picking Sam include: 

Hugh Grant

Ashton Kutcher

Ryan Reynolds

Aaron Johnston

So there we are our two characters! 

Titles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-xytodmKE

Here is another media text called "The Ex Drummer". I like the way the text is actually incoorporated on the objects rather than edited on the computer! It also isnt the main focus of the shots so we focus more on the story.

Locations

We have also spoken about the different locations of where we want to film each snippet.. for the final shot when we see the couple holding hands we thought about filming at the Bickerley which is a dis-used train track where and a public pathway. The backdrop would be romantic which contrasts to the couple in shot. Here are a couple of pictures...

Another potential place would be Hightown Lakes:

Rom-Com Planning and initial ideas.

IDEAS

So me Zoe and Effie have come up with what we hope to be a successful story opening!

We are sticking to our protagonist narrating at the beginning, explaining her pet hates surrounding men. This will then cut to a shot of told hands, then it will zoom out to reveal a couple (a grubby male, who is unattractive and gruesome and an ordinary girl.. the female protagonist). 

To make our audience be able to relate to the story we asked some of our friends what they didnt like about boys, and the three of us also came up with some. Sorry lads! Examples of these are: hands down their trousers & contaminating objects around, leaving the toilet seats up.

We also want to focus on the little things (inspired by Amelie) like when they come up  behind you and pinch your waist and not closing the cupboard doors. 

Title Sequences

We also have been thinking about the use of titles and want to be really imaginative and artistic. These are conventions that we found in other indie films. We want the titles to be on the objects in the scene; such as on the cereal box in the left open fridge and titles on toilet seat/toilet roll inspired by the media text 'Napoleon Dynamite"

Film opening brief

So its time to start our film opening and the brief I have chosen is:
A ‘relationship’ comedy/drama made by an independent production company, aimed at young adults.
I'm pretty excited to get started however the group I am with, Zoe and Effie, have completely different ideas for the  story. They are inspired by openings such as The Holiday with the non-diegetic speech of Kate Winslet, and Love Actually with all the couples together.
As much as I love the films I think its all a bit cliche and soppy, and because its an indie film i want it to attract both sexes. I want it to be just as funny as the romance.
I like the idea of having two contrasting protagonists that are the lovers for example in 'Knocked Up'.


I like the shots of "This is Allison's Life" and "This is Ben's Life" you can really see the contrast of the characters, having text like this in my opening is an idea I would like to consider.

I'm also inspired by this split scene from 500 Days Of Summer:


The faded edges and costumes give it that Indie, vintage feel and thats what I really like. Also using something like "This is ..... life" and having a split screen we can show the two protagonists getting ready for their day of work.. maybe the day they are going to meet.