This film starts in a busy airport just after the 9/11 bombings in America. It is showing all the people that survived or witnessed this terrible ordeal arriving back home well and safe, and how all their family members and friends reacted. It shows how all the people are pushing each other out of the way in their eagerness to find their missing family members and their arriving back off of their planes.
It is cutting between a number of different scenes of people finally finding their relatives, with the mid shot throughout. At the very beginning though, it is at shoulder view:
A man pushing his way through the crowd and finally finding a red-headed woman who hugs him and they then kiss, which then cuts to a woman and two children running up to her and a long shot which then zooms back in to a mid shot which then cuts to 2 women hugging. This then goes on to cut to a woman picking up little girl and hugging her tightly.
As the above starts happening, there's a voice-over of male voice talking about how love is around and about how when the planes hit the twin towers all the messages sent to the lost or dying people were all messages of love, not of hatred and dislike.
Whilst this is happening, their are still scenes flicking across the screen of people being reunited:
Cuts to a woman running up to her sister and hugging her, which then cuts to a girl hugging her dad, a husband and wife hugging, a baby boy and dad hugging and then the little boy kissing his dad on the cheek, a mother and young daughter hugging and laughing, 2 old men walking up to each other and hugging, a man and woman kissing, a woman crying and hugging her husband, two women hugging.
Then whilst a man and woman are hugging, the words "Love actually is all around", comes up at the bottom of the screen in red and white writing. Whilst this is on the on there is still different scenes cutting acrosss the screen: a man swinging a little boy in the air, a man, woman and teenage girl hugging each other.
Then the words "is all around" disappear and the words "Love Actually" are just left at the bottom of the screen.
This background screen of people hugging then fades out to just leave the words "Love Actually" on a black screen.
Throughout the duration of the 2-minute introduction, the camera keeps a mid-shot of everyone.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Basis of my coursework
My Coursework
In a group of three, we are going to produce the opening two minutes of a romantic comedy. This will be aimed at young adult’s (15-20), this due to the fact that they will be able to relate to the plot more than other age groups and will understand the jokes involved whereas a higher age group may not. We have decided to stick to the overall traditional romantic comedy and our plot is based around a teenage girl Caitlin who finds her best-friend, Courtney, and boy-friend, Carl, together in bed. She leaves them and on an endless search to find love she eventually finds it in her best friend, Matt. Caitlin is a florist and at the same time as love is on the horizon she is asked to produce flowers for a wedding; she does this, only to find out that it is Courtney and Carl's wedding she is doing the flowers for. Caitlin has an accident at the wedding where she falls into Carl, at which he tells her that he never stopped loving her and so what happens when Caitlin is faced with the question of whether to go back to Matt or retrieve her old love form Carl…what does she do?...
We have set it in a modern time period so the actors will need to wear fashionable and suitable clothing. We will also have to make sure many technical features are in our film to also represent this. The overall Mise-en-scene of our piece will be the house's in which our characters live in, the work place (the florist) and the night life of the town (clubs/bars).
In a group of three, we are going to produce the opening two minutes of a romantic comedy. This will be aimed at young adult’s (15-20), this due to the fact that they will be able to relate to the plot more than other age groups and will understand the jokes involved whereas a higher age group may not. We have decided to stick to the overall traditional romantic comedy and our plot is based around a teenage girl Caitlin who finds her best-friend, Courtney, and boy-friend, Carl, together in bed. She leaves them and on an endless search to find love she eventually finds it in her best friend, Matt. Caitlin is a florist and at the same time as love is on the horizon she is asked to produce flowers for a wedding; she does this, only to find out that it is Courtney and Carl's wedding she is doing the flowers for. Caitlin has an accident at the wedding where she falls into Carl, at which he tells her that he never stopped loving her and so what happens when Caitlin is faced with the question of whether to go back to Matt or retrieve her old love form Carl…what does she do?...
We have set it in a modern time period so the actors will need to wear fashionable and suitable clothing. We will also have to make sure many technical features are in our film to also represent this. The overall Mise-en-scene of our piece will be the house's in which our characters live in, the work place (the florist) and the night life of the town (clubs/bars).
...Script for our film... Love Squared!...
...Script... Love Squared...
FADE IN EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park.
VOICE OVER
CAITLIN #1Someone once told me that love is the most unlogical feeling in the world. I didn’t understand this when I was younger but now ive realised that this fact is completely right and that love makes no sense at all. It’s sometimes loud, sometimes quiet; sometimes people don’t mean to love at all. Sometimes it’s confused for lust and others it is turned into admiration. Well whatever it is I believe it is one of the most powerful feelings in the world, it can determine our entire happiness. However its total power to capture our entire thoughts still bewilders the entire human race. I wonder what would happen if there was no love, there would be no friendship, no girlfriends, no husbands or wives and my cheating ex would not be…
There is then a close up of her getting closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)…
Caitlin runs off.
(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASH BACK)
INT. BEDROOM INSIDE A FLAT #2 – DAY
This is a comfy and modern bedroom. The scene opens with knickers and bras on the floor, this then move to a view of a bed and you see people under the covers giggling. There’s a bang of a door and everything goes quiet before you see Caitlin coming home. Carl and Courtney who have been in the bed together both jump up and quickly find a place for him to hide, the wardrobe being the obvious place. Caitlin finally enters the room but his boxers are still on the floor.
CAITLIN #1Looks like you had fun last night
COURTNEY #2(PAUSE)Yes
Caitlin picks the boxers off the floor
CAITLIN #1He forgot something though, these look familiar.
Carl then falls out the wardrobe where he has been hiding
CAITLIN #1(SHOCKED)You...
(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASHFORWARD)
EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
Shot of Caitlin’s face
CAITLIN #1...Bitch
FADE IN EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park.
VOICE OVER
CAITLIN #1Someone once told me that love is the most unlogical feeling in the world. I didn’t understand this when I was younger but now ive realised that this fact is completely right and that love makes no sense at all. It’s sometimes loud, sometimes quiet; sometimes people don’t mean to love at all. Sometimes it’s confused for lust and others it is turned into admiration. Well whatever it is I believe it is one of the most powerful feelings in the world, it can determine our entire happiness. However its total power to capture our entire thoughts still bewilders the entire human race. I wonder what would happen if there was no love, there would be no friendship, no girlfriends, no husbands or wives and my cheating ex would not be…
There is then a close up of her getting closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)…
Caitlin runs off.
(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASH BACK)
INT. BEDROOM INSIDE A FLAT #2 – DAY
This is a comfy and modern bedroom. The scene opens with knickers and bras on the floor, this then move to a view of a bed and you see people under the covers giggling. There’s a bang of a door and everything goes quiet before you see Caitlin coming home. Carl and Courtney who have been in the bed together both jump up and quickly find a place for him to hide, the wardrobe being the obvious place. Caitlin finally enters the room but his boxers are still on the floor.
CAITLIN #1Looks like you had fun last night
COURTNEY #2(PAUSE)Yes
Caitlin picks the boxers off the floor
CAITLIN #1He forgot something though, these look familiar.
Carl then falls out the wardrobe where he has been hiding
CAITLIN #1(SHOCKED)You...
(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASHFORWARD)
EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
Shot of Caitlin’s face
CAITLIN #1...Bitch
Filmboard
...Start...
...Girl is walking through Hardwick Hall's park...
... See's her ex-best friend and ger ex-boyfriend proposing to her...
...FLASHBACK...1 YEAR AGO...Girl catches boyfriend and best friend in bed together...
...FLASHFORWARD... BACK TO HARDWICK HALL... She runs home...
... Title Sequence - over song and her crying...
...Couple of weeks later, her other best friend (who's a boy), comes over to cheer her up...
...She gets dressed and they go out for a drink...
...She get's drunk when they go out and wakes up the next morning in her own bed...
...Best friend is in kitchen making them both breakfast. They cuddle...
...She goes back to work and tells her boss about her ex- getting married...
...She gets a phne call and is asked to arrange some flowers for a wedding, but she doesn't know anything else about it as it's a secret...
...She begins to plan the flowers - things go back to normal. Meets her new best mate later to watch a film...
...He walks her to the door - She realises she's in love - leaves him at the door...
...She goes to work next day - Planning flowers and wishes they were being planned for her wedding as she's all loved up...
...Later she goes home and checks she has everything sorted...
...He turns up at her house with flower - they kiss and then spend the night together...
...Morning of the wedding - she leaves him in bed and goes to work...
...Gets there, realises it's her ex-best friend and her ex-boyfriend's wedding...
...Runs and hides behind some flowers - gets pushed from behind them - it goes silent - she falls into her ex-boyfriend...
...He smiles and says he still loves her she runs away!...
...She tries to tell the bride about what he said but she will not listen. When she lifts up the phone however to ring him, he's talking to another girl...
...Her ex-best friend tells her to tell the guests to go home. New best mate turns up and asks her to marry him...
...Fade out of them kissing...
...Cuts to the end scene, later with her husband (best friend) and her ex-best friend (girl) and her new husband...
...End...
...Girl is walking through Hardwick Hall's park...
... See's her ex-best friend and ger ex-boyfriend proposing to her...
...FLASHBACK...1 YEAR AGO...Girl catches boyfriend and best friend in bed together...
...FLASHFORWARD... BACK TO HARDWICK HALL... She runs home...
... Title Sequence - over song and her crying...
...Couple of weeks later, her other best friend (who's a boy), comes over to cheer her up...
...She gets dressed and they go out for a drink...
...She get's drunk when they go out and wakes up the next morning in her own bed...
...Best friend is in kitchen making them both breakfast. They cuddle...
...She goes back to work and tells her boss about her ex- getting married...
...She gets a phne call and is asked to arrange some flowers for a wedding, but she doesn't know anything else about it as it's a secret...
...She begins to plan the flowers - things go back to normal. Meets her new best mate later to watch a film...
...He walks her to the door - She realises she's in love - leaves him at the door...
...She goes to work next day - Planning flowers and wishes they were being planned for her wedding as she's all loved up...
...Later she goes home and checks she has everything sorted...
...He turns up at her house with flower - they kiss and then spend the night together...
...Morning of the wedding - she leaves him in bed and goes to work...
...Gets there, realises it's her ex-best friend and her ex-boyfriend's wedding...
...Runs and hides behind some flowers - gets pushed from behind them - it goes silent - she falls into her ex-boyfriend...
...He smiles and says he still loves her she runs away!...
...She tries to tell the bride about what he said but she will not listen. When she lifts up the phone however to ring him, he's talking to another girl...
...Her ex-best friend tells her to tell the guests to go home. New best mate turns up and asks her to marry him...
...Fade out of them kissing...
...Cuts to the end scene, later with her husband (best friend) and her ex-best friend (girl) and her new husband...
...End...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
13 Going On 30 - 2 Minute Introduction Analysis
This film starts by showing a sparkly blue screen with the film title in pink writing in the middle of the screen. This then cuts to picture of the main character, Jenna, on a desk in the main corrindor in her school. At this point the camera is looking straight down at the table and picture
and a pair of hands come in from the bottom of the camera on pick up the picture of the desk. The camera then moves up from the hands up the body until Jenna's face comes into view. There is then a close up of her face as she looks at her pictures and a look of shock register's on her face.
There is then a mid shot of Jenna's head and shoulders as she starts walking down the corridor still looking at the pictures with a look of horror on her face. As she is moving further down the corridor, the camera is zooming out until there is a long shot of her whole body still looking at the pictures as she's walking.Whilst all this is happening the music is still playing that had been playing since the beginning. Whilst Jenna is walking down the corridor, the music is still playing and the names of the main actresses ans actors and the directors come on the bottom of the screen in bright pink writing, so as to catch the attention of the audience.
The music then bursts into a much louder, faster, energetic music as a door behind Jenna bursts open a whole load of school children come through the door. One of the school children is a boy who is Jenna's best friend. As he is walking through the door he is taking pictures of everyone with a camera that he has around his neck. There is then a mid shot of the boy's face as he turns around and see's Jenna. He takes his neck off from around his neck and the camera zooms in to the camera as he is adjusting the lens on it.
The camera then cuts back across to a mid shot of Jenna who is still looking at her pictures that she has just fetched. There is there a long shot of the boy creeping up behind Jenna and putting a camera in front of them both and taking a picture of them both, without Jenna knowing what he is going to do.
There is a mid shot of them both as they start talking and whilst they are talking you can see her pulling her pictures towards her chest so that the boy can't see how bad her pictures are.
At this point, the music is still playing and as the camera cuts across the corridor to the main hall door and there is a clapping sound as a group of six girls walk into the corridor. There is a tracking shot as the girls walk down the corridor in a line so that people have to move out of the way as they are coming through. It is very obvious from the way they are all dressed and from the way people, especially girls, cower away from them as they are walking. The six girls stop in front of Jenna and the boy, and the camera does a long shot on them all as they start having a conversation of them all.
There is then a mid shot on them as the camera swaps between the six girls and Jenna and the boy.
The main girl from the six girls starts asking Jenna how her picture turned out, and because she doesn't want to show them her, she just say 'Oh, not to good!'. Jenna then asks the girl how her's have turned out, and she just says, 'Oh, mine neither!'. However, all the other five girls are laughing and saying how they are amazing and the best in the whole school. So, the main girl goes on to get her picture out and the camera zooms in 0n the picture, which is amazing, as all the other five girls had said.
The camera then zooms back out to a long shot and the six girls go on to say something nasty about the boy, so he tells Jenna that he will meet her outside, and he starts to leave. As he walks past them, all six girls move away from the boy and look at him in disgust as though he's a piece of rubbish!
The main girl of the group of six asks to talk to Jenna privately, and the camera pans across the corridor with them as they move across the room. The camera zooms in on them as they start talking about Jenna's 15th. birthday party that is taking place that night. The girl says that none of the girls are able to go to the party as they have got a priject to do for school and that there is a boy coming over to help her with aher work and as he's not been invited to the party then she didn't want to just turn up with him at the party uninvited. As she is saying this, the camera is zooming in on the girl. The girl then goes on to explain that that meant that she would be unable to go to her party.
The camera then goes on to a mid shot of both girls and Jenna says that she should bring the project to her house that night with her and that she would do it for them. She also says that she could bring as many boys to the party that night as she wanted too.
There is then a long shot of all the girls and the main girl of the six, signals for them all to follow her and the camera pans across the corridor as they walk off back in one single line. The camera then goes on to zoom in on Jenna's face to a close up and she has got a big grin on her face because she has managed to get some of the coolest people in her school to come to her party. The camera then cuts back to the group of six girls and they are all laughing as they have managed to get away from doing their work and they get to go to a party out of it as well. However, Jenna doesn't realise this as she is just happy that they are all coming to her party and she thinks that they are laughing because they are happy that they can still go to her party!
and a pair of hands come in from the bottom of the camera on pick up the picture of the desk. The camera then moves up from the hands up the body until Jenna's face comes into view. There is then a close up of her face as she looks at her pictures and a look of shock register's on her face.
There is then a mid shot of Jenna's head and shoulders as she starts walking down the corridor still looking at the pictures with a look of horror on her face. As she is moving further down the corridor, the camera is zooming out until there is a long shot of her whole body still looking at the pictures as she's walking.Whilst all this is happening the music is still playing that had been playing since the beginning. Whilst Jenna is walking down the corridor, the music is still playing and the names of the main actresses ans actors and the directors come on the bottom of the screen in bright pink writing, so as to catch the attention of the audience.
The music then bursts into a much louder, faster, energetic music as a door behind Jenna bursts open a whole load of school children come through the door. One of the school children is a boy who is Jenna's best friend. As he is walking through the door he is taking pictures of everyone with a camera that he has around his neck. There is then a mid shot of the boy's face as he turns around and see's Jenna. He takes his neck off from around his neck and the camera zooms in to the camera as he is adjusting the lens on it.
The camera then cuts back across to a mid shot of Jenna who is still looking at her pictures that she has just fetched. There is there a long shot of the boy creeping up behind Jenna and putting a camera in front of them both and taking a picture of them both, without Jenna knowing what he is going to do.
There is a mid shot of them both as they start talking and whilst they are talking you can see her pulling her pictures towards her chest so that the boy can't see how bad her pictures are.
At this point, the music is still playing and as the camera cuts across the corridor to the main hall door and there is a clapping sound as a group of six girls walk into the corridor. There is a tracking shot as the girls walk down the corridor in a line so that people have to move out of the way as they are coming through. It is very obvious from the way they are all dressed and from the way people, especially girls, cower away from them as they are walking. The six girls stop in front of Jenna and the boy, and the camera does a long shot on them all as they start having a conversation of them all.
There is then a mid shot on them as the camera swaps between the six girls and Jenna and the boy.
The main girl from the six girls starts asking Jenna how her picture turned out, and because she doesn't want to show them her, she just say 'Oh, not to good!'. Jenna then asks the girl how her's have turned out, and she just says, 'Oh, mine neither!'. However, all the other five girls are laughing and saying how they are amazing and the best in the whole school. So, the main girl goes on to get her picture out and the camera zooms in 0n the picture, which is amazing, as all the other five girls had said.
The camera then zooms back out to a long shot and the six girls go on to say something nasty about the boy, so he tells Jenna that he will meet her outside, and he starts to leave. As he walks past them, all six girls move away from the boy and look at him in disgust as though he's a piece of rubbish!
The main girl of the group of six asks to talk to Jenna privately, and the camera pans across the corridor with them as they move across the room. The camera zooms in on them as they start talking about Jenna's 15th. birthday party that is taking place that night. The girl says that none of the girls are able to go to the party as they have got a priject to do for school and that there is a boy coming over to help her with aher work and as he's not been invited to the party then she didn't want to just turn up with him at the party uninvited. As she is saying this, the camera is zooming in on the girl. The girl then goes on to explain that that meant that she would be unable to go to her party.
The camera then goes on to a mid shot of both girls and Jenna says that she should bring the project to her house that night with her and that she would do it for them. She also says that she could bring as many boys to the party that night as she wanted too.
There is then a long shot of all the girls and the main girl of the six, signals for them all to follow her and the camera pans across the corridor as they walk off back in one single line. The camera then goes on to zoom in on Jenna's face to a close up and she has got a big grin on her face because she has managed to get some of the coolest people in her school to come to her party. The camera then cuts back to the group of six girls and they are all laughing as they have managed to get away from doing their work and they get to go to a party out of it as well. However, Jenna doesn't realise this as she is just happy that they are all coming to her party and she thinks that they are laughing because they are happy that they can still go to her party!
My Treatment
Our film starts with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall, then cuts to Caitlin walking through park, and as she is getting closer to the camera, she is looking more and more shocked. She sees her ex-best friend, Courtney, and her ex-boyfriend, Carl, stood under a kissing gate, and Carl is proposing to Courtney...
There is then a flashback to the year before this incident, and the scene opens with the camera pannig across a bedroom floor with knickers and boxers on the floor. This moves onto a view of the bed which Courtney and Carl are lay asleep in. Then in the distance, you can hear a door being banged and Caitlin announcing that she has arrived home. Courtney and Carl both wake up sharply and Caitlin tells Carl that he must hid straight away; the wardrobe being the most obvious places. Caitlin then goes on to enter the room, and upon entrance finds the boxers laid out on the floor. With hesitation, Courtney informs Caitlin that she had had somebody stay over the night before after she had been out on the town. Caitlin jokingly says that she thinks she recognises the boxers from somewhere, and at this point, Carl falls out of the wardrobe. Both, Courtney and Carl look extremely shocked, and Caitlin shouts 'You...'
There is then a flashforwards, back to Hardwick and into the scene were it left off from, abd it continues with Caitlin shouting, '...Bitch!'. This then is forming a whole sentence of a series of two time frames.
The title sequence is then played over images of Caitlin crying and of her singing sad love songs in floods of tears. From this, various images are shown of her watching love films, crying and eating big tubs of ice cream to herself. This is helping to show the passage of time.
The next scene is of Caitlin lay on her sofa looking extremely depressed when there is knock at her front door, which she assumes must be her takeaway which she had ordered. However, it is not, and it is her other best friends, Matt, a brown-haired, muscular man, who declares that he come to cheer her up as he is sick of seeing her miserable. He walks into her house and take care of the situation; he puts dance music on playing extremely loudly and tells Caitlin to go and get dressed, whilst he cleans up her house. He then tells her to go and get dressed up nicely and do her hair and make-up as he is going to take her out to the pubs and clubs for a good time. They go to the pub in a taxi, Caitlin has too many drinks and gets on the stage and starts singing love songs on the karaoke machine.
At the pub, she meets an old work colleague, Kate, who organises weddings, gives them her mobile number and tells them to get in contact with her if they ever needed any work doing.
The film then cuts to the morning after, Caitlin is getting out of her bed with a bed hangover. She goes downstairs for a glass of water, and finds Matt in her kitchen making pancakes with chocolate sauce smiley faces on them and he has put a glass of fresh orange juice on her table and has put her toy dog next to it. She goes up behind him, and cuddles him thanking him for such a good night before and for bringing her home safely and also for the breakfast, but that she's afraid to say she couldn't really remember that must from the night before because she was so drunk and then he reminds her about her episode on the karoake machine, and they burst into fits of giggles. The phone is then heard ringing and Caitlin goes to answer it. She rush's back into the kitchen and tells Matt that it was Kate, who she had met the night before, asking her if she go in straight away because she seemed to have double-booked her day snd she urgently needed some flowers fetching and arranging for a wedding in two days time, that she didn't mind what type of flowers they were as long as they arrived at the church for ten thirty in the morning. She tells Matt that she has to go straight away and sort them out and she's sorry for just leaving him and thanks him again for the night before and asks him if he could shut the door behind him and post the front door keys back through the letterbox behind him. She leaves the house and rush to the local florist's and orders the flowers. She is now very excited by all the work she has been given and is enjoying the resposability it gives her. She decides that she will pick white and red roses for the wedding as she has always liked roses and she loves these two colours together; also, the wedding cake is red.
She goes home that afternoon to find a note on her table left by Matt, telling her to ,eet her in the local cinema's that night at about 8 o'clock. She arrives at the cinema's to find that he has managed to get a film to themselves and they start laughing and joking about what they could do together when there was nobody else there. They start running up and down the aisles and throwing popcorn at each other and jumping on the seats. After the film has finished, they go and buy an ice-cream and Matt gives her a lift home. He walks her up her drive to her front door and there is a tense silence as they debate how to leave each other; should they kiss and not! They just say good bye and hug and laugh nervously as if nothing has happened. Matt returns to his car and he drives away, Caitlin realises that she has feelings for him.
It's the next morning, and she starts to arrange the flowers in her front room, when there's a knock at her front door. Matt is stood at the front door messing around singing the songs that she had been singing when she had gone on the karoake machine a few nights ago. She stands at her door listening to him and when he finishes she bursts out laughing and lets him into her house. They mess around, arranging the flowers and then thing leads to another, and they start having a tickle fight and then they start kissing...
Slow love music is playing and she starts giggling. She then drags him upstairs and the scene fades out and then cuts back in to the morning after.
Caitlin is lay in bed with Matt next to her. She quietly gets up and gets dressed leaving her toy dog in her place. She also leaves a glass of orange juice on the bedside table with a note telling him that she has gone to the wedding to take the flowers.
She drives to the church and puts the flowers at the back of the church until she finds out where they need to go. She goes in search of Kate to find out where they need to go and finds her in the church foyer talking the groom. Caitlin waits to talk to Kate, only to realise that the groom is Carl, Caitlin's ex-boyfriend. She hides behind some flowers and then realises that it must be Carl and Courtney's wedding that she has been arranging the flowers for. Kate eventually leaves the conversation she and as Caitlin tries to move away to speak to her, she trips a stray cable on the floor and falls onto the floor in front of Carl. He starts laughing and gives her his hand to help her up, saying that she has not changed a bit since they went out! She starts to relax as they sit drinking a cup of tea; however he then takes this to far and tries to kiss her. As he does this, general flashbacks of their life together start flicking on the screen and as they get quicker, Caitlin is shown pushing Carl away.
As she is running away from him, she notices Courtney stood at the stood outside getting ready to come in to the church. Without a note of hesitation, Caitlin runs to her and tells her that she musn't marry him, it would be the biggest mistake she she would ever make. However, is Courtney is not willing to listen to what Caitlin has to say and tells her that if she doesn't leave she will ring the police. She attempts to push her away and as she does this Caitlin explains that she will prove he's not right for her as he will just keep cheating on her. They stop fighting and Caitlin says that if she will rings Carl, without him knowing that Courtney is there, will she listen to what he says to Caitlin. Courtney is unsure about what to do, but decided that she needs to know the truth so as she knows who to trust and so she agrees to the plan. They use the church phone to ring Carl, but upon picking up the phone, Carl can be heard talking to another girl who is whispering seductively to him down the phone. Courtney puts down the phone.
After a lot of debating with herself, Courtney tells Caitlin to go and tell all the wedding guests that the wedding is off and that she just can't do it. As Carl realises what is happening, he starts running down the aisle but is tripped up and falls into the cake face first. Caitlin then looks up to see who the foot had belonged to who had tripped Carl and Matt appears around the corner from behind some flowers. He explains that he has been hiding his real feelings from her for to long, and asks her to marry him. Without question, she says yes! This scene then fades out with them kissing...
It then cuts to the last scene which is set a year in the future. Caitlin and Matt are sat together laughing in an old country house, and a Courtney and her new husband Aaron come into the room announcing that dinner is ready.
There is then a flashback to the year before this incident, and the scene opens with the camera pannig across a bedroom floor with knickers and boxers on the floor. This moves onto a view of the bed which Courtney and Carl are lay asleep in. Then in the distance, you can hear a door being banged and Caitlin announcing that she has arrived home. Courtney and Carl both wake up sharply and Caitlin tells Carl that he must hid straight away; the wardrobe being the most obvious places. Caitlin then goes on to enter the room, and upon entrance finds the boxers laid out on the floor. With hesitation, Courtney informs Caitlin that she had had somebody stay over the night before after she had been out on the town. Caitlin jokingly says that she thinks she recognises the boxers from somewhere, and at this point, Carl falls out of the wardrobe. Both, Courtney and Carl look extremely shocked, and Caitlin shouts 'You...'
There is then a flashforwards, back to Hardwick and into the scene were it left off from, abd it continues with Caitlin shouting, '...Bitch!'. This then is forming a whole sentence of a series of two time frames.
The title sequence is then played over images of Caitlin crying and of her singing sad love songs in floods of tears. From this, various images are shown of her watching love films, crying and eating big tubs of ice cream to herself. This is helping to show the passage of time.
The next scene is of Caitlin lay on her sofa looking extremely depressed when there is knock at her front door, which she assumes must be her takeaway which she had ordered. However, it is not, and it is her other best friends, Matt, a brown-haired, muscular man, who declares that he come to cheer her up as he is sick of seeing her miserable. He walks into her house and take care of the situation; he puts dance music on playing extremely loudly and tells Caitlin to go and get dressed, whilst he cleans up her house. He then tells her to go and get dressed up nicely and do her hair and make-up as he is going to take her out to the pubs and clubs for a good time. They go to the pub in a taxi, Caitlin has too many drinks and gets on the stage and starts singing love songs on the karaoke machine.
At the pub, she meets an old work colleague, Kate, who organises weddings, gives them her mobile number and tells them to get in contact with her if they ever needed any work doing.
The film then cuts to the morning after, Caitlin is getting out of her bed with a bed hangover. She goes downstairs for a glass of water, and finds Matt in her kitchen making pancakes with chocolate sauce smiley faces on them and he has put a glass of fresh orange juice on her table and has put her toy dog next to it. She goes up behind him, and cuddles him thanking him for such a good night before and for bringing her home safely and also for the breakfast, but that she's afraid to say she couldn't really remember that must from the night before because she was so drunk and then he reminds her about her episode on the karoake machine, and they burst into fits of giggles. The phone is then heard ringing and Caitlin goes to answer it. She rush's back into the kitchen and tells Matt that it was Kate, who she had met the night before, asking her if she go in straight away because she seemed to have double-booked her day snd she urgently needed some flowers fetching and arranging for a wedding in two days time, that she didn't mind what type of flowers they were as long as they arrived at the church for ten thirty in the morning. She tells Matt that she has to go straight away and sort them out and she's sorry for just leaving him and thanks him again for the night before and asks him if he could shut the door behind him and post the front door keys back through the letterbox behind him. She leaves the house and rush to the local florist's and orders the flowers. She is now very excited by all the work she has been given and is enjoying the resposability it gives her. She decides that she will pick white and red roses for the wedding as she has always liked roses and she loves these two colours together; also, the wedding cake is red.
She goes home that afternoon to find a note on her table left by Matt, telling her to ,eet her in the local cinema's that night at about 8 o'clock. She arrives at the cinema's to find that he has managed to get a film to themselves and they start laughing and joking about what they could do together when there was nobody else there. They start running up and down the aisles and throwing popcorn at each other and jumping on the seats. After the film has finished, they go and buy an ice-cream and Matt gives her a lift home. He walks her up her drive to her front door and there is a tense silence as they debate how to leave each other; should they kiss and not! They just say good bye and hug and laugh nervously as if nothing has happened. Matt returns to his car and he drives away, Caitlin realises that she has feelings for him.
It's the next morning, and she starts to arrange the flowers in her front room, when there's a knock at her front door. Matt is stood at the front door messing around singing the songs that she had been singing when she had gone on the karoake machine a few nights ago. She stands at her door listening to him and when he finishes she bursts out laughing and lets him into her house. They mess around, arranging the flowers and then thing leads to another, and they start having a tickle fight and then they start kissing...
Slow love music is playing and she starts giggling. She then drags him upstairs and the scene fades out and then cuts back in to the morning after.
Caitlin is lay in bed with Matt next to her. She quietly gets up and gets dressed leaving her toy dog in her place. She also leaves a glass of orange juice on the bedside table with a note telling him that she has gone to the wedding to take the flowers.
She drives to the church and puts the flowers at the back of the church until she finds out where they need to go. She goes in search of Kate to find out where they need to go and finds her in the church foyer talking the groom. Caitlin waits to talk to Kate, only to realise that the groom is Carl, Caitlin's ex-boyfriend. She hides behind some flowers and then realises that it must be Carl and Courtney's wedding that she has been arranging the flowers for. Kate eventually leaves the conversation she and as Caitlin tries to move away to speak to her, she trips a stray cable on the floor and falls onto the floor in front of Carl. He starts laughing and gives her his hand to help her up, saying that she has not changed a bit since they went out! She starts to relax as they sit drinking a cup of tea; however he then takes this to far and tries to kiss her. As he does this, general flashbacks of their life together start flicking on the screen and as they get quicker, Caitlin is shown pushing Carl away.
As she is running away from him, she notices Courtney stood at the stood outside getting ready to come in to the church. Without a note of hesitation, Caitlin runs to her and tells her that she musn't marry him, it would be the biggest mistake she she would ever make. However, is Courtney is not willing to listen to what Caitlin has to say and tells her that if she doesn't leave she will ring the police. She attempts to push her away and as she does this Caitlin explains that she will prove he's not right for her as he will just keep cheating on her. They stop fighting and Caitlin says that if she will rings Carl, without him knowing that Courtney is there, will she listen to what he says to Caitlin. Courtney is unsure about what to do, but decided that she needs to know the truth so as she knows who to trust and so she agrees to the plan. They use the church phone to ring Carl, but upon picking up the phone, Carl can be heard talking to another girl who is whispering seductively to him down the phone. Courtney puts down the phone.
After a lot of debating with herself, Courtney tells Caitlin to go and tell all the wedding guests that the wedding is off and that she just can't do it. As Carl realises what is happening, he starts running down the aisle but is tripped up and falls into the cake face first. Caitlin then looks up to see who the foot had belonged to who had tripped Carl and Matt appears around the corner from behind some flowers. He explains that he has been hiding his real feelings from her for to long, and asks her to marry him. Without question, she says yes! This scene then fades out with them kissing...
It then cuts to the last scene which is set a year in the future. Caitlin and Matt are sat together laughing in an old country house, and a Courtney and her new husband Aaron come into the room announcing that dinner is ready.
Our Storyboard
...Start...
Establishing wide shot: Hardwick Hall,
Long Shot... Girl 1 walking towards the camera,
Pans to... Girl 2 and boy 1 - boy proposing,
Close up... Girl 1 shock!
Flashback... 1 year ago...,
Fade out, then fade in,
Close Up... Knickers and boxers on the floor,
Pans up... Girl 2 and boy 1 on the floor,
Door slams downstairs (non diagetic),
Mid shot... Girl 1 ('I'm home!'),
Long shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 jump up out of bed,
Mid Shot... Girl 2 shoves boy 1 into the wardrobe,
Mid shot and pan... Girl 2 running and lying back down on the bed,
Birds' eye and pan... Girl 1 walking out of the kitchen and to the bottom of the stairs,
Mid shot... Girl 1 walking up the stairs,
Close up... Girl 1's hand on the door handle,
Long shot... Inside bedroom, door handle turning, girl 2 lying on bed,
Long shot... Girl 1 walking in room, girl 2 lying on the bed, looking nervous,
Close up... Girl 1 picking up a pair of boxers up off of the floor,
Close up... Girl 2's face (scared). ('Oh, I had someone back last night'.),
Close up... Girl 1's face ('So I can see. I'm sure I regocnise these from somewhere!'),
Long Shot... Boy 1 falling out of wardrobe,
Close up... Girl 1 ('You...'),
Flashforwards...to Hardwick Hall...,
Close up... Girl 1 ('Bitch!'),
Pan Shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 looking shocked...
...Finish...
Establishing wide shot: Hardwick Hall,
Long Shot... Girl 1 walking towards the camera,
Pans to... Girl 2 and boy 1 - boy proposing,
Close up... Girl 1 shock!
Flashback... 1 year ago...,
Fade out, then fade in,
Close Up... Knickers and boxers on the floor,
Pans up... Girl 2 and boy 1 on the floor,
Door slams downstairs (non diagetic),
Mid shot... Girl 1 ('I'm home!'),
Long shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 jump up out of bed,
Mid Shot... Girl 2 shoves boy 1 into the wardrobe,
Mid shot and pan... Girl 2 running and lying back down on the bed,
Birds' eye and pan... Girl 1 walking out of the kitchen and to the bottom of the stairs,
Mid shot... Girl 1 walking up the stairs,
Close up... Girl 1's hand on the door handle,
Long shot... Inside bedroom, door handle turning, girl 2 lying on bed,
Long shot... Girl 1 walking in room, girl 2 lying on the bed, looking nervous,
Close up... Girl 1 picking up a pair of boxers up off of the floor,
Close up... Girl 2's face (scared). ('Oh, I had someone back last night'.),
Close up... Girl 1's face ('So I can see. I'm sure I regocnise these from somewhere!'),
Long Shot... Boy 1 falling out of wardrobe,
Close up... Girl 1 ('You...'),
Flashforwards...to Hardwick Hall...,
Close up... Girl 1 ('Bitch!'),
Pan Shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 looking shocked...
...Finish...
Our voice-over for opening sequence in our rom-com
FADE IN
EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park.
VOICE OVER
CAITLIN #1
Someone once told me that love is the most unlogical feeling in the world. I didn’t understand this when I was younger but now ive realised that this fact is completely right and that love makes no sense at all. It’s sometimes loud, sometimes quiet; sometimes people don’t mean to love at all. Sometimes it’s confused for lust and others it is turned into admiration. Well whatever it is I believe it is one of the most powerful feelings in the world, it can determine our entire happiness. However its total power to capture our entire thoughts still bewilders the entire human race. I wonder what would happen if there was no love, there would be no friendship, no girlfriends, no husbands or wives and my cheating ex would not be…
There is then a close up of her getting closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)… Caitlin runs off.
EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park.
VOICE OVER
CAITLIN #1
Someone once told me that love is the most unlogical feeling in the world. I didn’t understand this when I was younger but now ive realised that this fact is completely right and that love makes no sense at all. It’s sometimes loud, sometimes quiet; sometimes people don’t mean to love at all. Sometimes it’s confused for lust and others it is turned into admiration. Well whatever it is I believe it is one of the most powerful feelings in the world, it can determine our entire happiness. However its total power to capture our entire thoughts still bewilders the entire human race. I wonder what would happen if there was no love, there would be no friendship, no girlfriends, no husbands or wives and my cheating ex would not be…
There is then a close up of her getting closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)… Caitlin runs off.
Friday, 16 January 2009
Research Information on Romantic Comedies
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Narratives (the kinds of stories)
•Girl meets guy,
•Girl loses guy,
•Meet up again after a space of time,
•Become friends again,
•Realise how much they like each other.
•Happy ending.
Settings
•Big cities,
•Weddings,
•On holiday,
Stock characters
•The perfect man,
•The dorky, loveable guy,
•Clumsy woman,
•The boyfriend/girlfriend,
•The best friend,
Iconography
•Love music,
•Red colours everywhere – Red love hearts, Warm colours.
•When something goes wrong ( Pathetic fallacy {weather affecting story})
Audience – Cassie?
Females, mainly teenage girls. Sometimes, men who have been made to watch the film by their girlfriends.
Films
My Big Fat Greek Wedding,
What Women Want,
Hitch,
Pretty Woman,
There’s Something About Mary,
Sex and The City,
Runaway Bride.
Box office (money earned by the genre films) - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/
My Big Fat Greek Wedding = $241,438,208
What Women Want = $182,811,707
Hitch = $179,495,555
Pretty Woman = $178,406,268
There’s Something About Mary = $176,484,651
Editing techniques
•Close ups on main people – e.g. them kissing,
•Cut-backs/ Flash-backs,
•Establishing shot.
Narratives (the kinds of stories)
•Girl meets guy,
•Girl loses guy,
•Meet up again after a space of time,
•Become friends again,
•Realise how much they like each other.
•Happy ending.
Settings
•Big cities,
•Weddings,
•On holiday,
Stock characters
•The perfect man,
•The dorky, loveable guy,
•Clumsy woman,
•The boyfriend/girlfriend,
•The best friend,
Iconography
•Love music,
•Red colours everywhere – Red love hearts, Warm colours.
•When something goes wrong ( Pathetic fallacy {weather affecting story})
Audience – Cassie?
Females, mainly teenage girls. Sometimes, men who have been made to watch the film by their girlfriends.
Films
My Big Fat Greek Wedding,
What Women Want,
Hitch,
Pretty Woman,
There’s Something About Mary,
Sex and The City,
Runaway Bride.
Box office (money earned by the genre films) - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/
My Big Fat Greek Wedding = $241,438,208
What Women Want = $182,811,707
Hitch = $179,495,555
Pretty Woman = $178,406,268
There’s Something About Mary = $176,484,651
Editing techniques
•Close ups on main people – e.g. them kissing,
•Cut-backs/ Flash-backs,
•Establishing shot.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
AS Media Coursework - 2 minute introduction our romcom...
We have got to plan and film a two minute introuduction to a romcom, that we have made up. We have got to make a storyboard and plan all the ideas that we would like to do and then plan and film them. I will then go on to post both the storyboard and the 2 minute introduction in to my blog, so that everybody can see the work that we have done. So, look out for the story board and then the introduction...
Coursework
This is where all of my coursework will be goin that I do in my AS Media Studies lessons. It will be updated every time that I have done something new, so that I have a constant update. I will also be downloading past work that I have done in Media Studies. So, whilst I get on with the work, watch and enjoy!...
My AS Media Coursework
From now on, this is where I will be keeping my AS Media Studies coursework updated.
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