End of term summary

End of Term Summery to show our progress

Genre Research - Romance

Romance movies were known to be films based on passion, emotion and affection of the main characters which is usually a man and a woman and the story of their marriage/relationship.  Romance films are known to be 'love strories'.  those are examples of stereo typical romance movie narratives.
Not all Romance films are about the opposite sex. There is a history of romance films about the same sex couples.

(2010)

 (1957)

Sub Genres -
There are different types of Romance movies for example:
Chick Flicks
Romantic Comedies
Romantic Thrillers

Romance movies tend to appeal more to females.  they are often dramatic and full of romance.
Many females feel that they can relate to one of the characters as most of the stories are common life romance related stories.

For example Titanic
It is about 2 people from different social classes falling i love and people disagreeing with this.  I have noticed that most romance narratives is when two opposite people fall in love and friends/family disagree  with their relationship.  This is a famous / common romance plot as it has been popular since the famous Romeo and Juliet story by Shakespear.

Letter For Focus Group

This is the letter I wrote to invite our focus group to the interview 

Opening Sequence

We have decided that this will be our opening sequence:

• Tilt from feet upwards on the business woman walking down an alley on her way home from work\
• She walks past a homeless man, who notices that she is being followed by a group of boys
• As she is about to walk out of the alley way one of the boys grab her bag and run 
• The homeless man shouts and starts to chase the boy who stole the bag
• There will be a short montage of the homeless man chasing the boy he finally manages to get the bag back
• He gives the bag back to the woman 
• The woman thanks him, gives him her business card and tells him meet her in her work place
• There is a slow motion shot of the man and woman smiling at each other 
• It ends with the woman walking away smiling 

Audience Research Survey - Romance

Here is a questionnaire we made to find out our target audience

Questionnaire

Audience Profile Research Survey

These are the 5 survey questions i come up with individually:

What is your favourite type of genre?

How do you find out about new movies coming to your cinema?

Are you in a relationship?

What tv shows do you watch?

How many times do you go to the cinema a month?

never      sometimes    often     all the time

Our discussion after the pitch

after the pitch we all come together as a group and decided that we need to change our idea or change the type of genre we are going to do as our pitch wasn't very successful.  So we all decided that we all would individually think of a genre and come up with a new opening sequence for it and then decide from there on.

Self Review of pitch

Today we pitched our idea to our teachers and class mates. This is my opinion on how we got on:

Strengths -
I think our strengths were that we were able to recognise our weaknesses and errors in our coursework idea we also took in the feedback well and took things seriously and understood what we had been told.

Weaknesses -
I think the main weakness in our pitch was that we were a bit unprepared.  We wasn't prepared enough for our pitch to be successful. I think that we needed to think about the genre we chose and do more research than what was already done, as we ended up getting the wrong idea of what a Thriller is supposed to be like, but we pitched a horror without even realising.

Opportunities -
Because of the comments made in our pitch i don't think we have many good opportunities as we have decided to start again and re think our idea.

Threats -
The only threat that is clear that we are behind  compared to other groups. The other threat is that we made it seem like we were pitching a horror movie instead of a Thriller and it's also low budget it would be hard to video the ideas we have put together in the dark, and because it is winter, it is dark early.

Tv Drama homework

TV Drama: Misfits Series 3 Episode 5

• Who made it?

Maurray Ferguson
Petra Fried
Howard Overman

• What channel is it on? 

E4

• What time is it on?

10pm

• What is the sub-genre 

• Who is the target audience 

teenagers from the age of 16+

• What was the narrative 

While doing community service at the local hospital, Kelly gets trapped in the body of Jen, a coma victim.

• What/who was being represented 

A group of teenagers who are doing community service but they have been given these super powers and help save people with the superpowers