Mood Board

Alot of these movies were very successful highlighting how romantic comedy is a popular genre. However, although our opening sequence will be planned out it will not be of as high a quality. This mood board represents just a few famous romantic comedies. Using more modern romantic comedies to work with such as 'This is 40', 'Bridesmaids' and 'Warm Bodies' will allow us to create humor for a more modern audience as peoples humor towards romance and elements of a movie may have changed or developed over recent years.

The Three Act Structure

Final idea and settings for opening scene to movie

The chosen genre is romantic comedy and the plot is similar to the film 'This means war' in the way that two men fall in love with the same girl without realising. Although at the end both accidentally meet the girl at the same time and realise that they are both being played.

The settings will be basic and very character-focused to maintain the intensity of the moment when both male characters realise that they have been seeing the character. The settings will be light to ensure they have no effect on the mood of the film and only the actions and speech will have an effect on the audience. The filming will be done in the street as the two male characters walk towards the restaurant to meet the girl, they are having a conversation about the girls they have both met who they are planning to now meet and when they both walk into the restaurant tension rises as they both approach the table and look at the girl and eachother in confusion as the girl sits in shock as she realises that she has been caught. The two men will be friends which also means that the moment of realisation is intense as they cannot understand how they never realised what was really going on making the moment almost humorous.

Initital 25 Word Pitch Ideas

"Tom and Jerry think they have found 'The One' when meeting new partners but through their naivety are in a relationship with the same girl."


"Two friends who are in awe of their fantasy girl fight to save their friendship after discovering they are dating the same female."


"Sam who has the admiration from two close friends endures a series of ups and downs as she decided which boy she wants the most."

Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K9LKKQG

Today I sent out a survey so i can gain more understanding of what an audience really appreciates in a movie. So far me and my group have established the genre of our 2 minute opening sequence that we'll be creating as 'RomCom'. In general this genre appeals to most people as comedy and romance are 2 genres appreciated by most people and romantic comedies bring these two audiences together.
I've only included basic questions at the moment to test whether or not my group have decided on the right genre. Through separate research i've also noticed that music has a huge influence over the genre of a movie and romantic comedies definitely have elements of fast pace music to keep up with the humour and happiness, but music such as slow piano music is also used to create the gentle romantic moods throughout. Films such as the one below are the perfect example of romantic comedys with varying music to highlight the parts of the movie with comedy and the parts that are more concentrated on the romance.

Rom Com Movies

Romantic comedy's are the best genre of movie as although it has a serious element with the romance its kept light hearted and entertaining with the element of comedy. Although some end badly they all tend to end well although they usually have lots of ups and downs throughout their plot, but also the music tends to be cheerful and light to fit in with the romantic setting and funny sections. Good examples of romantic comedys are films such as 'Hitch' and '13 going on 30'

2 minute opening sequence ideas

Me, Taylor and Louis have come up with an idea for our 2 minute opening sequence. Slightly similar to the plot of the film 'This Means War' i act as a girl who is seeing two different boys at once (Taylor and Louis), but what I don't know is that they're both friends. They then both accidentally bump into eachother when I arrange to meet them both on them same day. It will then be left on a cliffhanger as they both meet me at the same time by accident. This is just a basic starting idea, alot more research and development is needed yet.