initial ideas and research

as a group to help develop our courswork we have developed our research. we have decided our film teaser trailer will be based on a really cheesy american romcoms that are made in america, so that we can make our parody about them. at this time we have not chosen our distributer or institutions.

we chose our characters names which are Buddy Johnson and April Day. we chose these names as we were inspired by the buddy holly song "Everyday", we liked this song but we were aware we are not allowed to copyrighted products in our teaser trailer, so we looked into the ownership of buddy holly records and found out about Decca Records, we then emailed them, but we have not heard of any reply as of yet. If using this is not possible we have also asked a student from our school to create an underscore that we would want simular to films such as "juno". as well as this as a group we have created a storyboard, and by doing this we now have time to complete our film magazine and poster mock ups.

when looking at creating our film poster and magazines we looked at different styles, different layouts and different fonts. in order to create a poster or magazine we would need a font style. we are looking at font styles that will appear in all 3 parts of our coursework and to decide what font we would like we have chosen a few examples we like. these examples are chosen from http://www.dafont.com/

we chose these font ideas from looking at films that have a simular genre such as "juno" "superbad" and "napoleon dynamite" as these films are the types of films we wish to paradoy.

Research On RomCom Film Posters

this is the film poster for "what happens in Vegas"the film is about a couple who get married in vegas, the image of the couple shows them getting along and enjoying the rlationship they have. the female and male characters on the front show that is is a rom by the way they are holding each other. the title "get lucky" shows that they are not actually in love.

Initial Coursework Ideas

For my A2 coursework, i am still remaining in the same group as i did before and as a group and looking at many different teaser trailer examples and genres, we decided that our genre would be a Romantic Comedy. to be more accurate we are doing a spoof romantic comedy, with a slight satire to mock romcoms as they appear now. as a group we chose the title "wrongcom" and have based our ideas upon that. we chose this title as it is a play on words and it empashises the comedy in our coursework.

as well as creating a teaser trailer , our group will also be creating a film poster and a film magazine front cover that covers our "film" collectively as a group we decided to research,create and produce our advanced portfolio with a different genre to our foundation portfolio, as it allows new ideas and different techniques to be used. for the plot line of our film. we are not using the stereotypical, good looking characters we are using characters that are not good looking, that are not expected to be in this genre of film.

Features of a Film Magazine

there are certain features that appear on a film magazine, these features are:

• a masthead
• a centeral image
• smaller images of other features in the magazine
• coverlines
• taglines
• Different font types appropriate to the advertisement
• colour scheme
• mode of address

Annotated film poster

Features Of Teaser Trailer

A teaser trailer will have a hint of what the film is about and reveals a small glimpse of film to the audience
It will make the audience want to find out more if nothing is given away.
It will make the audience speculate and talk about the film.
It will reveal the date/season it is released.
They are of a short length
It will reveal the genre and mise-en scene
They are released a long time before the release date
It will often contain images not from the actual film.