Previous romcom BAFTA winners

• Notting  hill won won a bafta award for most popular film in 2000. It also wona wards for outstanding british film of the year and also the best performance by an actor in a supporting role.
• Love actually won 9 awards  including best british film , best supporting role acotr/actress, best actress, best comedy, best newcomer and best british actor and actress.

romcom research- 10 things i hate about you

10 things i hate about you openings with the soundtrack, introduction of character and introduction of setting.

title are shown over the image and are done in a handwriting type font this is because the film is targeted for a teenage audience.

This film is also very simlar to how we want to open ours as it doesnt have any dialogue in the first 2 minutes and all that is shown to begin with are characters and setting with soundtrack over the top. The film also starts by setting the scene showing images of the city  first which is how we are opening ours.


They also use a very upbeat energetic song  as a representation of youth, which is the same effect we are trying to create and use.

Director:

Gil Junger

Writers:

Karen McC

Director: Gil Junger . Wrtiters:Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Stars:Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levittullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith,

Romcom research- four weddings and a funeral

Four weddings and a funeral starts off with the opening credits, we get a shot of each individual character to get a idea of what they are like. The  opening few minute show the setting of the film and make London look like a bright, sunny and posh place.They had variation of camera angles but because the film aws done in the 90's it looks quite dated.
In the films they music doesnt fade in untill after the first 2 minutes.

The opening of this film is reasonably similar to how we would like to open ours, starting off with and itroduction to the characters and setting.

Production Co:PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Channel Four Films, Working Title Films

Director: Mike Newell

Writer: Richard Curtis

Stars:Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell and James Fleet

Box Office

Budget:£3,500,000 (approx) Gross:£244,100,000 (Worldwide)

Opening of film-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHc0-Vco8Qw

Bafta nominations

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer:
Attack The Block - Joe Cornish (director/writer)
Black Pond - Will Sharpe (director/writer), Tom Kingsley (director), Sarah Brocklehurst (producer)
Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes (director)
Submarine - Richard Ayoade (director/writer)
Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)

The bafta awards are purely for British films. It is an annual award.

Submarine is a film that is quite similar to the film that we would want to make. this shows that this style of film has a good response.

'Unlike so many other British TV comedians who have made the transition to film directing, Richard Ayoade reveals a distinctive cinematic talent with his debut, the skewed teen romance Submarine. By Isabel Stevens'

More research on british romcoms - Bridget Jones diary opening few minutes

Taglines:For anyone who's ever been set up, stood up or felt up

Bridget Jones is a british romcom. The opening few scenes are of a woman who is going to her mum christmas party. For the first few minutes there are no title just an intro to the film. Bridget Jones stars Renne Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth and was directed by Sharon Maguire.

the dialogue to begin with is a voice over of her explaining what she wants to achieve throughout year, and as the whole film is set on a year of her life it introduces possible ideas of what could happen.


The opening is similar to what we want as it introduces the character and setting first, just like the majority of romcoms do. In this film the soundtrack doesnt start straight away because of the voice over.


They use various effects in the opening two minutes such as a slow motion when Mark turns round , however this is done in a mickey take way of a conventional romance which have become know of having the perfect person seen in slow  motion through the eyes of the antagonist of the film.Also they have used shots like have the camera on a angle as she walks into her mothers house this is ment to give the sense that her mother is querky and not from this planet.

Box Office

Budget;$26,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend:$10,733,933 (USA) (15 April 2001) (1611 Screens) Gross:$71,500,556 (USA) (5 August 2001)

Production Co:

Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Studio Canal

Trailer-http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2230230553/

Location shots research.

We are going to film our opening 2 minutes in hastings which we know very well.
we are going to film in
- Hastings old town
- Hastings town centre
-East hill

We knew we wanted a shot of the whole town anddecided that the best place to get this would be from the top of the east hill as it is the highest point in Hastings and we would able to get the shot we want from there.

Also we want our film to have a very busy feel to  it so we decided to film it in the old town where there is always quite a few people , and because there are lots of shops and cafes it creates quite close community feel to it.

The only real problems are that because we are filming it all outside it all depends on the weather as to when we film and that because we are filming it in public we have to be careful on not getting to many background people in the video as it would put the continuity off.

story board

Final production company logo

 

This is the final logo for our production company ' fly productions' we wanted to go with something fairly simplistic  as alot of logos are done simply so that they catch the eye and make an audience interested in whats going on.

Connotation of fly

-'Cool'

-Slang

-modern

-youth

-impossible

We used this logo specifically as we are trying to target a female audience, as the films produced by 'fly productions' are all genres which are generally viewed more by females then males.

Generally films such as Romcoms an chickflicks.

examination of genres

The genre of a film is the catagory in which it fits into. A genre is a formed convention , new genres are always being invented.

Examples of film genres...
- Comedy
- Sci fi
- Romcom
- Chick flick
- Horror
- Thriller
- Action
- Adventure
- Crime
- Western
- Romance
-  Fantasy
- Coming of age drama

Research of Genres -

The genre we are going to use in a romcom. Romcoms are light hearted films with comic plotlines that are centred about romantic ideas.

other possible genres we considerd doing were horror or a chick flick.
A horror is a film intened to scare the audience.
A chick flick is a film film mainly dealing with love and romance generally targeted towards the female audience.