Posters 2

Another poster from the rom com genre in which we are able to look at is this one for the film valentines day. when looking at this poster , one of the first things in which we are able to notice is that there is a massive heart shape in the middle of it. The outline of the heart is in pink , and this is stereotypically a womens/ girls colour, so it could be connoted from this that this is primerally aimed at a female audience. when we look inside the heart, we are able to see that there are lots of famous faces in it , which may attract audience members to watch because of the amazing cast list. Another thing to note on is that the cast mainly consists of attractive celebrities which may also attract the public to watch. This is common in romcoms as popular attractive actors and actresses are cast a lot in these types of films in order to attact the audience to watch.

costumes

when looking at costuming in rom coms , it is able to be seen that the costume for the ladies is ussually quite dressy. this maybe a connotation for aiming to attract to a female audience as they maybe able to find it relateable in a way , and/or this maybe to support the female gender , which most women will also support. one example we can see this in , is the film pretty women , ironically.

In this film , Julia Roberts is dressed in some very provocative clothing as she is an escort , but when at the end , she gets with Richard Gere , she is wearing very fancy clothing , but she has always looked pretty throughout the film , so therefore possibly supporting women as a beautiful gender ?

In other rom coms , we see women acting very laid back in a comical way , and not wearing fancy clothes. In films like Bridget Jones Diary , she doesnt dress up very much , and is seen as a very relateable idol to many women .

There is a mix between rom com films , when it comes to clothing , as some are as laid back as possible with no frills , and others potray women as being very elegant and pretty.

costumes and make up

when looking at costumes for our piece , we decided that for the flashback scene , we would need to have quite vintage clothing as the old man would be looking at memories from the 1950's , when he would have been in his youth. when looking at the clothing for the man , when he was in his youth , we decided that a grey tweed blazer , a black shirt , black shoes and grey trousers would work well and go along with the vintage look.

when looking at clothing for the old man's younger companion , we decided to look at many different styles of dresses from the 50's era' as there is lots of choice of dresses from that time period. After looking at these types of dresses , and comparing them to the dresses we had available , we finally decided on using a dress in which consisted of a navy blue blouse with cream spots , with a elasticated waitband and a cream skirt. we then looked at shoes to go with the dress , that brown brogues would work well with the dress , and were also able to get hold of a pair of these as well.

we decided to then turn to make up for the female companion , and decided after looking at styles of make up from that era , that red lipstick and foundation and blusher would give off the right effect.

Costume for the old man was not a problem as the clothes our actor already had on were suitable enough to go along with his age .   

 

 

 

 

script for voice over

locations

when looking at different locations for our piece , we decided to look at using local places , like public parks in which had wide and vast spaces. places in which came to mind when thinking about this was places like sutton lawn , portland park, kingsway park , Brieley forest park; all local beauty spots in our area.

 

 

 

 

After looking at many locations , we decided that sutton lawn would be best to use as it provided the widest and best conditions for what we would be filming .

storyboard via post it notes

mise en scene, props and lighting

when thinking about the mise en scene for our opening , we thought about the two spaces we would be using. the first space that we were to use was the old mans room. for this , we used Lindsay(the person who which i was working on this project with)'s grandma's house. This was convenient as the actor who played the vold man was Lindsay's grandad , so this was easier for him and us. we decided to use his bedroom as the decor in the room matched the effect we wanted the old man to have in his room.when filming in here , we decided to have a dog on the old mans lap ,to represent that this was his only companion , as he had lost his wife. we also used a picture of me and my girlfriend vicky , also lindsays sister, on the side , for the old man to look at .this was because i would be playing a younger version of him and vicky his wife , in the flashback , which stems off from him looking at the picture. we decide to have the lighting , during the filming of this scene , to be very dull , to represent the light in his life disapearing ,due to losing his wife.

when looking at the flashback scene , we decided that we would want this to show a contrast and had used natural lighting of the day , which was sunny , which we wanted to represent the happiness of the couple. the idea of using a public lawn which had a pond , was one we had from the outset as we felt that this would create a very romantic feel as you may see lots of couples in these places. the fact that there was lots of trees and a pond gave us natural props to incorporate into the back ground , as these could be connoted as romantic setting factors. For one of the flashback scenes , the young man and woman are having a picnic. We used an old fashioned picnic basket for this as we felt that this would fit with the time as well as the contents in the basket , which consisted of fruit. The blanket we used also fited with the time as it was handmade , like many blankets were in those days.