Initial Story Ideas

I then posted screen shots of my prezi on my twitter and asked people to vote on which one they liked best these were the results

I also got some results through text these were

Once I had collected all of this data 

Idea 1 had 2 votes 

Idea 2 had 2 votes 

Idea 3 had 4 votes 

So the idea I will be using will be 

Idea 3

Convetions of Romance Films

Production Companies

audience of films and romance films

History of Films and Romance Films

Story Construction

Story Idea 1 

The Leads Goal in my story is to discover if her Boyfriend is still alive or not. 

Suppose she receives a letter saying he might be dead and she decides to try and find out if this is true because if she doesn't her baby won't have a father. 

The film is about a women, who wants to find out if the letter she received about the possibility of her boyfriend being dead is actually telling the truth or if it is just a sick joke. She must discover if he really was killed in war or he is safe and coming home in time for christmas so that she can tell him she is pregnant and he can be a father to the baby. 


Story Idea 2

Suppose she stumbles across photos of her fella with another women, she then decides that she must take bitter sweet revenge.

The film begins showing the love between this young couple, when the next morning he claims to be off to work. She kisses him goodbye and continues with domestic chores. While emptying the pockets of their clothes, she discovers  this one photo of her lover along with a more beautiful and attractive women with a pendant necklace hidden in his blazer pocket. She then must decide whether to ignore what she found or get her own back 

The Lead Character's goal is to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend. She'll do discrete tasks to get revenge.

Story Idea 3

The main character's goal among the story is to decide whether or not she should get back into contact with her ex boyfriend who she's still in love with, as there's something she needs to tell him that should only come from her. 

Suppose this happens, she must decide whether or not she puts herself through the pain of seeing him again.

My film is about Christmas 2014, a whole year later from when Holly and her boyfriend filled this season with magical memories last year. She stumbles across a page in her old diary where polaroids are scattered; polaroids of her and him. The more pictures she stares at, the more memories that come flooding back. These memories play on screen, and then the diary closes. Holly gets up, gets ready, rebuilds her confidence.

Class feedback

The male character has a terminal illness (the ex boyfriend)

He had previous illnesses that were minor and didn't tell her, so she thought he was cheating on her when really he was just going to doctors and hospital appointments so they broke up. He was weak and vulnerable and had no one so didn't save the relationship, he was confused, and she was stubborn.

She now has a new serious boyfriend.

But it's Christmas, and with Christmas come memories of her and her ex. She can't help wonder about how he is, so when she receives a christmas card from him her heart jumps in excitement. However, when she opens it her whole world turns upside down.

The christmas card reveals him having a terminal illness, the big C; cancer. She's in a dilemma of going to visit him or not. Does she now risk the trust of her new boyfriend? Does she risk feeling attachments toward her ex?

Planning Genres

Romance 


I like this genre because after looking at a few film openings and trailers. I found that the genre has many codes and convention that are followed throughout the openings of different films. I think it would be easier to film for this genre because they often are filmed in natural settings and this would make it easier to film as they don't need a high budget setting.

Horror 

After watching many openings and trailers that fall into the horror category i discovered that they all follow conventions. I think that this genre would be harder to film due to the fact that you have to find the right location and make sure that it is scary enough to find the film you are trying to make, i feel this could make filming the opening quite hard as it could take a very long while to find the perfect location. 
Action 



I watched many action movies and found that although this would be a fun genre to film it would just be to hard as they need quite a lot of money and extravagant filming locations. they would also be very hard for me to film as they tend to contain action in the first 2 minutes which is something I just can't film.

Existing Films and My Own Title Ideas- Romance

This has been a group task, I worked with Ellie and Danielle. 

Existing Films

- The Notebook 

- Love Actually 

- Pretty Women 

- The Fault in Our Stars 

- The Vow 

- Definitely Maybe 

- Dear John 

- Princess Diaries 

- The Best of Me

- If  I Stay 

- About Time 

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

- The Spectacular Now 

- Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

- Wild Child

- Stardust 

- Dirty Dancing 

- That Awkward Moment 

-Love Rosie 

- She's the Man 

-The Lucky One 

- Warm Bodies 

- One Day 

- Romeo and Juliet 

- Endless Love 

- 500 days of Summer 

- Theres something about Mary 

- Midnight in Paris 

My Own Titles 

- Last Love 

- Somebody to Love 

-The Final Goodbye 

- Last Summer 
- the Last Letter
- The Note 
- The Only One
- This is it 
- Once 
- One Chance 

Weekly Production Log

Week Beginning 6th October
This week I looked into different genres and decided that I wanted to create a romance film. I then researched into Romance films titles that already existed and then created some of my own.

Week Beginning 13th October
 This week looked into the history of film and the history of romance films to try and understand my chosen genre better. I also looked into the audience of my film genre in order to try and understand what kinds of people view romance films.

Week Beginning 20th October
This week I looked into production companies and the kinds of films they produce, I also looked into the conventions of romance films and also created my initial story ideas.

Week Beginning 3rd November
I looked into different shot types that I could use within my opening in order to make sure that I was able to complete the shot well enough to be able to shot them in my opening.

Week Beginning 10th November
This week I looked at different distribution companies and the kind of films they distribute, I also created both talent and location release forms in order to get people to sign them saying I can use the location or I can use them in my film opening.

Week Beginning 17th November
This week I looked into film classification and what they all mean, I then decided what classification I would give my film.

Week Beginning 24th November
I created a practice opening to get the right idea about the titles I should use, I then looked at my title ideas and picked my favourite 4 and then did a survey to find which title my target audience like the most. I also did a practice shot of my shot types. I created a risk assessment form for my location. I also completed my timed analysis and my codal analysis and I created a classification screen form my opening which I was unable to complete last week.

Week Beginning 1st December
I went and took pictures of my possible locations and create a site scanning sheet to fill out. I created a brief story outline and looked into how my opening will engage my audience. Also I gained primary research about my opening and was able to complete my plans for shooting.I gained primary research about my opening and was able to complete my plans for shooting.

Week Beginning 8th December
I completed my call sheet  and shoot list leaving me with just my storyboard to complete

Week beginning 15th December 
I completed all aspects of research and planning 

Week Beginning 5th January 
I filmed half of my film opening 

Week Beginning 12 January 
I finished filming my opening 

Week Beginning 19th January 
I completed my edit decision list

Week Beginning 26th January 
I began editing my film opening 

Week Beginning 2nd February  
I continued to edit my film opening 

Week Beginning 9th February  
I finished editing my film opening

Week Beginning 16th February (Half Term) 
I uploaded my film opening and began planning my evaluation questions 

Week Beginning 23th February
I continued to plan for my evaluation question and began thinking of ways to present them

Week Beginning 2nd March
I began to present my evaluation questions

Week Beginning 9th March
I continued to work my way through the evaluation questions

Week Beginning 16th March
I contuined to work on my evaluation questions

Week Beginning 23rd March
I uploaded all evaluation question except 3 to my blog as I still have to film 3

Week Beginning 30th March
I uploaded question 3 completing my evaluations

Production Schedule

6/10/14- This week I will look at different genres that I could use for my opening and decide which genre I will use and research into it

13/10/14- This week I will research into the both the history and the audience of both film and my chosen genre to decide who my target audience is

20/10/14- This week I will look at genre conventions of my chosen genre, I will also look into different production companies to discover what kinds of films they produce. I will also create different story ideas.

3/11/14- This week I will decide which shots I will use in my opening and produce a video of practice shots to make sure they look good.

10/11/14- This week I will look at different distribution companies. I will also create different forms that I need such as a talent release form and a location release form.

17/11/14- This week I will look into film classification and decide on the right one for my film I will then create a classification screen. I will also look into gaining audio permission for my opening.

24/11/14- This week | will create a practice title sequence to understand what things need to be included. I will also conduct a survey to choose my title, I will also practice my differnet shot types again to get them perfect before shooting, I will also complete my codal and timed anaylsis and a risk assessment

1/12/14- This week I will go and take pictures of my possible locations and create a site scanning sheet to fill out. I will create a brief story outline and look into how my opening will engage my audience. I will also gain primary research about my opening and will complete my plans for shooting.

8/12/14- I must complete my call sheet and shoot list and storyboard

15/12/14 – This week I will complete my research and planning

5/1/15- I will begin recording my film opening.

12/1/15- I will continue to film my opening 

19/1/15- I will complete my edit decision list

26/1/15- Editing Commences 

2/2/15- Editing 

9/2/15- Editing Complete 

16/2/15 Half Term Begin Planing Evaluation 

23/2/15- Continue Planning for Evaluation 

2/3/15- Continue Planning for Evaluation 

9/3/15 Begin presenting Evaluation Questions 

16/3/15 Continue presenting Evaluation Questions

23/3/15- Finish presenting EvaluationQuestions

Film Opening Titles