Coursework Discussion One, 14th November

Today (14^th November) was the first day my group and I started to look in detail at movie trailers of different film genres, In today’s lesson we brainstormed many ideas based on film genres and as a group decided what would be the best genre and the genre that we could put in the most creative ideas. At first we were all set on the genre of romance and we looked into many trailers, some of those being P.S I love you, the notebook and 500 days of summer.  There were many elements of a romantic genre that caught our eye but The key elements that stood out the most regarding a romance genre were the editing techniques such as the slow pace cuts, the non-diegetic music and the voiceover, We had strong ideas on the specific Mise-en-scene such as the stereotypical attractive boy and girl preferably a blonde skinny very striking teenage girl as this would draw in a specific target audience which was young girls and woman as Romance films are usually regarded to be a ‘chick flick’ and less appealing to men. We had a lot of ideas when it came to the location of the film, our original idea was t  film in London, specifically at around the west end, our reasoning behind this was that we are approaching the Christmas season and the decorative Christmas lights would have complimented the theme of our trailer exceptionally well. Although all of our ideas had been very creative we did start to doubt the ideas that we had been brainstorming as we felt some of our ideas could have been unrealistic, for example would we really manage to get ourselves as well as our actors to travel to London? Lighting was also an issue as Romance films use various lighting to conceal blemishes on the actress’ face which adds to the effect which reinforces romance. The weather was also an issue as it is getting rapidly darker in the evenings our time for filming would be limited and we would most probably have to make more than one trip up  to London which was a problem regarding cost. I feel as if we may have rushed into making a decision instead of taking into consideration the finer details as well as the vital aspects.