[Pitch]
My target audience
would be young adults and teenagers, looking at the statistic rom-com genre is
mostly watch by middle-class a young females who are into fashion celebrities
and mostly up to date.
My secondary audience would be people who would like to watch it with a friend still middle class and order parents who would like to watch it with their children.
My movies going to be similar to wild child, it's a boy girl thing, the proposal, devil wears Prada and chalet girl. They all target young females. All those movies have something in common they all target the same audience and some of them to include drama, music and sports.
My story would be based on a girl who's desperate to be popular and have a relationship by the end of this school year. This type of movies are very popular among the teenagers. In the beginning of the opening movies don't necessarily have to include five of the Todorov's narrative formula. My movie I'm going to include the state of equilibrium and the disruption of it. In that way I would be able to create some Mystery which is included in Barthes' Hermeneutic code as well as enigma code to build up tension.
For my characters
I would need only three characters I would have a geeky girl who's going to be
my main character and a popular girl who's going to be a villain and finally a
boy who is going to be the prince and the loving of the main character.
For the locations I chose two bedrooms to compare the boys’ bedroom and the girls’ bedroom while they are getting ready for school. I would also need to film the scene in the street to show them leaving the house and going to school as well as the school itself.
Stereotype of this sort of genre it is very common to have a villain who is going to be with the male main character. The villain would be popular outstanding and very well dressed girl who will do anything to get the male main character on her side. They will be at the main character itself it is going to be a girl who is very shy and not in the middle of the attention and has a limited comfort zone. She's the one who's going to fall in love with the very popular and mature boy in school. He would be the second character for my movie because he will be the one who would eventually be with this geeky girl.
For mise-en-scene
and props I would be needed, lights, costumers such as fashionable clothes for
the villain to show that she's not very easy to deal with and at the middle of
all the attention. Hoodie or sweater and sweatpants as well as pair of glasses, for the geeky girl
to show that she is not popular in school. I would also be needed microphone to
make a great quality of the sound I would also need props such as computer,
food and drinks to be used during the time when the main characters would be
compared.
And for intertextuality I'll be using social media to introduce actors, production companies and etc to the audience. For example when the main character will be sending a text to her friend using Facebook that would be a close-up of the text writing the name of the actors and the production companies such things are often used in rom-com genre.
1 comment:
Hi Adel, Mr Burrowes here. I've viewed your pitch and read the post, and here's a few thoughts:
Overall, this would work, though you need to be clearer on what we’d see on screen, particularly on editing: I’m assuming you intend to crosscut between the two locations/characters until we get to the school?
On audience, gender is key: these are ‘chick flicks’ but producers and distributors seek to boost the appeal to a secondary male audience; how would you do this? You need to be more specific on age too: look at the UK age ratings (BBFC) and decide which you’d pick for your film. Base that on the BBFC descriptions but also by researching the age ratings of other comparable rom-coms. [1 tip: just like horror films boost female attendance as date movies, rom-coms do the same with males]
You mention clothing in the video, but need to really pin this down! The fashionable point: zeitgeist, or ‘she is a zeitgeisty character’, is a useful term
Titles: if you stick to using mobile screens, you’ll get very limited marks for titles. If this was just one of a more creative range of diegetic titles (ie, included in the mise-en-scene), however, that would give you scope to score very highly on these. Look at some past IGS examples, but also Napoleon Dynamite and Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (a Warp X film, so good for the exam too) for some ideas there. There are also many other films that have taken this creative approach to titles. Think about the street shots: if you filmed shop windows etc, with careful framing you could edit your own posters etc (or produce these and stick them up). Also look for electronic displays you could access.
Trick or Treat, horror, opening is a great example of using mise-en-scene in a bedroom. Submarine (also Warp) is a must-watch. Pretty in Pink is a great example of setting up the love triangle (actually 4 in this case), with Duckie an interesting character, and any of John Hughes’ films. 2015 IGS film (+Molly’s blog) Candelabra is worth a look. Working Title have a wide range of rom-coms, mostly with Hugh Grant (and Richard Curtis as writer and/or director), but have also tried some teen flicks – you mention Wild Child, also look at About Time, which adds sci-fi to its hybrid approach.
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