Research on a few short films.

This is another short film we studied for some research. Again the genre was a Romantic Comedy, and i liked the story behind this film. It is about a teenage boy who falls madly inlove with a girl who he never speaks to. This girl says to him 'dream on cupid' and then he dresses up as cupid and shoots her with an arrow. I loved the way the ending unraveled. Firstly the audience see what happened through the teenaged boys eyes and how he wished things worked out, and then the truth is uncovered. I liked how there was no dialogue however all the audience were aware of the storyline and what was happening, I also like the music which was playing throughout the film, contrasting to the end of the story.

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/shoes_off/

This is a link to the film Shoe's off. Stuart, a timid 31-year-old bachelor, is inspired to break out of his monotonous existence by a mysterious woman in beautiful black boots. He crashes a stuffy cocktail party in order to meet her, but gets kicked out after an incident involving shish kabobs and red wine. It is then that he discovers that the way to a woman's heart is through her shoes. Although this film was 12-13 minuets we found it useful as research for our genre of our film.
This is a romantic comedy and the story line is completely unique and unrealistic. I found it humourous and exciting towards what was going to happen next. I liked all the different shots used and the way there is a close up frame used for the piece of paper saying that he is going 'to live life dangerously'. Throughout all films a close up shot is used when the filmers are trying to exagerate this , this is why we have planned a close up shot of the key unlocking the house and a close up shot when Amy shows Jack that she found a key.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004pyzt

This is the first short film which i have watched. It is four minuets and six seconds long and the story is ONLY focusing on two main characters and has a very simple story line which is easy to follow.
It is about a doctor who falls in love with a women who is dead. Something that i learnt from this short film is that from just watching this short film i have been able to summerise the story into just one sentence which is what we have done with our film.
Also at the start of this film it tells you that it was made according to Straight8 rules. One 58mm cartridge, no editing, unless on camera.

Another thing which i liked about this film is that the story is so easy for the audience to follow and understand, although i do not like the actually idea of a man falling in love with a dead women. There are not many locations involved and it is very basic however, at the same time very effective.
The genre of this film was a DARK ROMANTIC COMEDY.

The Notebook

This is a picture for the second film i looked up. This poster and the poster for ' A walk to remember' are very similar. Both a picture of the girl and the boy doing something romantic together, whether its kissing or cuddling.

A walk to remember.

This is a movie trailer/poster for the film 'A walk to remember'. This film is what we have decided to base our short film on. As you can see in this picture the couple are all cutely cuddling up close together both looking extremely happy. This picture does not go into detail about the fact that the girl has got an illness or that the girl is a 'geek' and the boy is 'the cool kid'. I just decided to look this up to give us a few ideas for creating our poster.

Our Main Character.

Name - Joe Jackson
Age - 19

Birthday - September 24th ( one of the older in his year )

He is not an only child ,like expected. He has one younger brother who is 17 years of age.

Joe is almost embarassed of his younger brother. This is because these two children are complete opposites. While Joe is into sports, going out and girls his younger brother Edward plays computer games and does not enjoy leaving the house. There social lives are a complete contrast and Edward wears glasses.

Car he drives - A black rangerover with tinted windows.

Job - He's a full time student, however promotes clubs on the weekends
Interests - football, sport, the gym, GIRLS, drinking, clubbing, cars, money, popularity.

Relationship status - single, but looking.
Where he lives - A 3 bedroom apartment in knightsbridge, next door to Harrods. He only has One flat mate named Sam Garner and the other room was originally taken by his ex girlfriend Sarah , who only lasted a number of weeks.

He no longer lives with his parents seeing as he moved out into his own house at the age 18, when he started university.

Where he was born - In St Johns wood. The Wellington.

He has grown up in London his whole life.

He has always been popular with the girls, one to mess them around however he has now decided he wants to go on a number of dates to find his dream girl.

Fathers name - Mr Pete Jackson

Mothers name - Mrs Clair Jackson

His father is a lawyer for his own firm and is always in another country travelling for his work.

His mother is a secutary for her husbands lawyer firm, and when she is not at work she is either cooking or cleaning their beautiful house in Sloanne Square. Their business is located in Hype park and is a very well know lawyer firm.

He has longish brown hair, spiked up with gel. Bright blue eyes. Very broad seeing as he spends half of his life in the gym.

Joe normally goes for the stereotypical girl: Talk, slim, Long ,blonde, straightened hair. Tanned skin and they are always from the popular crowd of girls that everyone is after.

' Guy falls in love with a girl whose dying'

When we first sat down to start planning our short film we knew the first thing we needed to choose was the genre.

We made a list of a few of our favorite films that we thought we could take ideas from to create our own:

Film Ideas

- Thirteen

- A walk to remember

- Just married

- The girl next door

- 40 year old virgin

- The Notebook

- 50 first dates

- Hitch

- What happens in vegas

After deciding our genre : 'Romantic Comedy' we decided to base our film on 'A walk to remember', '50 dates' and the TV series 'One tree Hill'.

Starting ideas:

The main guy in our film comes across as a sports jock, he's bored of his life and decides he wants to find love/ a girlfriend. His friends set him up on sevral dates (all good looking, steriotypical, popular high school girls) however he ends up falling for the geek in his maths class who nobody pays any attention too. As time goes on he discovers her secret (she's dying from lucemia!) His friends are shocked to find out that after all the dates they've set him up on he's fallen for the least expected person witch there not happy about...however they have to choose either to accept it or loose him as a friend?

Charchters in our film:

Main boy - (high school jock)

Main girl - (geek)

Girls for dates ... (how many ?)

Guys friends - (football team..how many?)

Bellow is a timeline that we have created to help keep us organised and stick to dates when we start the planning and shooting of our short film.

Once we had finished our timeline we realised that we hadnt actually done it in enough detail so over the weekend we will re- do it, to make it more precise.

Romantic Dramas defined.

While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists. Common themes include the characters making decisions based on a newly-found romantic attraction. The questions, "What am I living for?" or "Why am I with my current partner?" often arise.