second draft music

Music for media first draft.

This is my first attempt at creating some music for the montage date sequence and the credits. I think the music is a little amaturish and will attempt to create a more profesional score.

My Edit: First Draft - Happily Ever After

I still need to add titles and music.

My First Draft Poster

Poster and analysis of an existing poster

Thumbnail

I am going to try and make a poster which starts with a single image from my film which effectively relates to the story and represents the characters. I am going to make my first draft of my poster using the Thumbnail  I am currently using. I have looked at many different posters that fit under the genre of a romantic comedy (click here to see those posters) and I am going to try and make my poster to look like an advertisement of a Hollywood Romantic Comedy.

Romantic Comedy Posters

1. Everyone.
In these wedding photos every main character is in the shot. These are usually used for films with a lot of side stories and subplots.


2. Pick me up
In these wedding photos the man is usually shown picking up the girl. They show that the film will be more rom than com.


































3. The Back to Back.
These posters show the two main characters back to back. This suggests pretence, that they are not really as friendly as they are acting and that there is hidden meaning and selfish intentions behind their actions.

4. Two guys and one girl.
This either suggests a love triangle or a medling friend who thinks he's helping. This fits the catagory of mine and Callums film and I will therefore base my poster on this. "This means war" has a similar style to what I am going to try to emulate.

5. "Men Are Inept and I Have to Do Everything Around Here!" type poster.
This type of poster usually shows a man with a problem of some sort with a woman who is attempting to 'fix' him.

Thumbnail.

Professional films use thumbnails to represent their film in a single image usually taken from the film. The title of the film is usually part of this thumnail. This thumbnail is my first attempt at finding a picture that represents the film. I decided that as a comedy, the thumbnail had to be comical. However I don't feel that this thumbnail represents much in terms of characters and storyline so I created a second thumbnail which I have used in the YouTube video and I will also use this second thumbnail as my the premise for my poster.

I used a shot from the wedding as I beleive it effectivly shows the story in one shot. It shows Callum looking sad and disappointed which shows how is character feels about the situation and points out the irony of the title (the word 'Happily' being right above his head). It also stands out as a wedding is not usually associated with disapointment. Poppy is looking happy because her character wanted the wedding and I (Benjy) am looking proud of myself because my character managed to get the two characters together, my character thinks he's helpful but makes things worse.

My Edit: The school scenes from Happily Ever After.

Bruce Partleton said that the fades inbetween the cuts are often unneccecery. The tracking shots are also a bit shakey. I suggested putting down wood but Bruce said it was to do with the bumps in the tracking joints.

My Edit: Media wedding sequence

Callum and I decided we would play on cliche and stereotypical imagery. As a result I (as location manager) picked a church with a high roof. This allowed me to do a long tilt downwards  to establish the location.

In the final piece i will use wedding bells as a sound-bridge between to two clips, this will establish the fact that this is a wedding. 

The piano piece is generally known as "Here Comes the Bride" or "Wedding March" and I used it to add the the cliche and stereotypical atmosphere of the film. Our film is intended on being a blockbuster Rom-com. A convention of blockbuster films is simple narrative. One thing that sets British blockbusters apart from American blockbusters is its use of subtlety in narrative and music. Aspects of my film will conform to British Blockbuster conventions but as an overall product it will conform to American Blockbuster conventions.

Meeting and interview with Age and Sons resturant about filming.

Before we filmed the resturant sequence we had a meeting with age and sons. In evaluation of this meeting, Callum and I should have been more prepared for questions about insurance. Also we should have planned out what we were going to say, so that we could have answered questions more coherently and concisely as we mumbled, went off topic and found it hard to get our points across.

My Edit: a shot of people at the wedding.

Inspired by Split Screen: A love story. I attempted to fill seats at the wedding with me and Callum to make it look like there were people watching the wedding. This was also going to be used because we didn't have enough actors and actresses. In evaluation, the attempt didn't look as good as I was hoping, mainly because the split lines are quite visable in places and also because I couldn't fill the seats that much because of litterally 'getting in my own way'. The shot also didn't work well in the whole film anyway.

Redraft Synopsis

Instead of the film opening with two characters (Benjy and Callum) discussing girls, the film now starts with a panning shot from the back of the classroom. This will give the impression of a full classroom. Callum admits to liking a girl in their class (Poppy) and Benjy makes it his mission to put them together. The next scene is the conference room (instead of the cinema). Benjy tells Callum he is going to train him how to get Poppy. Next there is a shot of a clock moving from 10:00am to 1:00pm and then a shot of a school bell ringing (as opposed to before which was a montage in the cinema) Benjy then says to Callum to say "how do you like your eggs? Fertalised" as a chat-up line. There is then a batman style "SLAP" title across the screen and it cuts to Callum rubbing a handprint on his face from where he had been slapped. Benjy then suggests a second chat up line which we don't hear him tell Callum. Benjy says "say..." then it immediatly cuts to Callum saying it. This chat-up line is equally cringeworthy and creppy and is "My friend and I bet you wouldn't take your shirt off in public". It cuts to Callum holding an ice pack between his legs. Benjy suggests a final chat-up line ("I put the STD in stud and all I need is U") and Callum decides against using it and instead aproaches the girl normally.

The girl agrees to go on a date with Callum and the date is seemingly going great until Callum goes to the bathroom. The door shuts revealing Benjy who tells Callum he has a plan. Callum tells Benjy to not do anything and that everything is going fine but Benjy ignores this and tells him to "wait until the bill arrives".

Callum spends the rest of the evening trying to avoid paying the bill by moving the subject away from the bill. When the bill finally arrives it is Benjy wearing a suit. He states that Callum asked him to ask her to marry him and pulls out a ring. Callum tries to explain he didn't say that but is interrupted by the girl saying yes. The scene quickly cuts to a wedding. Wedding bells can be heard before the fade to the new scene.

the guests at the wedding will be played by me and callum, cropped lots of times and pasted to make it look like the wedding is filled with guests.

credits begin to role up and it cuts back to the wedding where Benjy begins to say "when callum first asked me to be his best man" but is interrupted with callum shouting "I never asked you that!".