My Film Plot

A young teenage couple Louise and Arron are coming up to the 2 year anniversary. Arron plans a romantic dinner for them however previous to that day Louise had been told that the family were moving away and she has to break the news to Arron.

Arron is devastated and consults in his friends, Louise moves away and after about a month she realises that she is unable to keep a long distance relationship with Arron. Arron however is not ready to loose Louise, Arron and his friends decide that they will make a plan to win her back and to do this start by watching movies, as they watch more and more films they begin to hatch a plan thinking that the way to get Louise back is by doing what they do in the movies, they make several stages

1.       Send presents such as flowers chocolates balloons.

2.       Showing up unexpectedly

3.       Throwing a huge party and inviting her

4.       Write her a song

5.       Save her life (does something to have to save her )

Although Arron thinks this is romantic and will win Louise back little does he know that she is starting to fall for another guy in her new town. Arron’s friend joe is best friends with louise and she has told him this but he does not lnow whether or not he should tell arron he chooses not to.

After doing the 5 things to win louise back arron realises that she is not interested and is with another guy and tries to deal with it, arron finds it hard to get over louise, when louise comes to visit she realises how sad arron is and tries to talk to him about what went wrong.

In the end arron falls in love with a girl back home and louise stays with the guy back home, the pair remain close friends.

Two film case studies

Film 1 ( Friends with benifits)

Shot types
Cutaway shot - shows the two main characters together in the main location of the film.
Medium upclose shot shows the two characters together but without seeing the location aswel.
Mid shot
Cutaway shot- shows the location and characters together
Extreme wide shot- shows all sections of the location.
Over the shoulder shot- switches while the characters talk to each otheer
Medium close up- shot points upwards.
Mid shot- servral used in same minute to show different locations
Close up- shows the emotions
Wide shot- shows location and surrondings

The length of the trailer is 1 minute 44 seconds.
The codes and conventions that the trailer follows are:

• Voiceover
• Main characters introduced
• Romantic colouring and text
• Boy meet Girl
• Romantic hesitation
• Live happily ever after

Film 2 ( Love actually)

love actually
Wide shot- shows the city at christmas
Mid shot- shows a character dancing
wide shot- shows another character in his location
Two shot- shows 2 characters together in the frame
Over the shoulder shot- showing an introduction between two characters
Close up- characters whisper
Mid shot- shows main character talking
long shot- shows location
close up- shows emotion

The length of the trailer is 2 minutes and 31 seconds.
The codes and conventions that the trailer follows are:

• Voiceover / prologe
• introduction to main characters
• Romantic credits
• boy meets girl
• grand gesture

Questionnaire

Are you…

·         Male

·         Female

How old are you?

·         15 and under

·         16-25

·         26-35

·         36-45

·         45 or older

How often do you watch a comedy film?

·         Once a week

·         More than once a week

·         Once a fortnight

·         Once a month

·         More than once a month

·         One or more times a year

·         Never

Do you prefer…

·         Cinema or watching a film at home?

What sub-genre would you prefer?

·         Romantic

·         Horror

·         Police

·         Animation

·         Other (please state)

Would you prefer …

·         Girl fight over boy or boy fights over girl.

·         Falling in love or falling out of love.

·         Love and attack or heart break from death

·         Dumb policeman saves the day or clever policeman proved wrong by dumb policemen.

·         Or write what you prefer here.

What do you like about comedy films?

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What do you dislike about comedy films?

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What do you look for during advertisement of a comedy film?

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