MAIN Post 12.1: Question 1

Our Genre is a Romantic comedy as a group we have used our character to fit the conventions of the behaviour in a Rom-com for example you see our character talking to a potential love interest through text. This is often seen in Rom-com opening sequence, to notify the audience on what is about to come later on in the film. Part of our character personality is displayed in the opening sequence as you see her sending an email to her boss which should be sent to her potential love interest. Also you see her fall over and clumsy aspects appear. This is conventional for a Rom-com as there's aspects of comedy shown throughout.

Our opening sequence first shot opens with a display shot of our main character, JENNY in bed waking up to the sound of the alarm. As our Film genre is a Rom-com it was conventional that we only had one character in our opening sequences as this allows the audience to realise what the main focus was. Majority of Rom-Com's for instance "in her shoes" start with the character in bed waking up. Also '13 going on 30' shows the focus only on one character in their opening sequence to show the audience who the film is about.
It was recognised that our camera work portrays the aspects of the character which we entailed to do so. For example the use of shots we used such as extreme close up / close up and low angle shots, relate with the genre of the film because it shows expression to her own actions. Many Rom-Com's signify important points which appear or link later on in the film.

We have a narrative enigma in our opening sequence as our character JENNY is texting her male friend and emailing her boss. However, accidentally sends the text to her boss, these types of enigmas are conventional in Romantic comedies where they set up a love interest and occupation within the opening sequence through a narrative enigma. By doing this it allows the audience to understand what type of genre the film is and how the character get puzzled.
In our opening sequence our titles are displayed in a conventional way as majority of them are objects spelling out the title. For instance we use a fridge magnets placed on a fridge spelling out a name. This helps the audience understand what type of genre the film is because many of other Rom-Com's use the same technique. As our character is in bed, she rolls over pulling the pillow with her so the shot can see the other side of the pillowcase as it read 'Kings Langley productions' In colours which signify love and romance also our other titles which appear on a black screen are in pink and silver this is because it represents femininity. This also matches the title of the film 'l.o.v.e 'as its shown on a bracelets in the colours schemes of silver.



This display One of our titles in our opening sequence however this title was not integrated in with the process of the film . It just appears, where as other titles we have used such as 'Becky trimmer' displaying on the post is integrated in with the action as she puts the post down.

This display our title of our film.


A convention of a Romantic comedy is showing the character facing a problem, in our opening sequence. We show our characters complexity with finding tights without holes in them. We also show how our character is in a rush to be ready for work from this you see her fall over on magazines placed on the floor this is also conventional as it shows an element of comedy. JENNY'S room is purposefully in a mess and unorganised as we wanted to show her personality as resulting in disaster this is conventional for instance in the Rom-com 'Bridget Jones' her personality is displayed as scatty, yet shes shown as a willing character however, hard she tries she doesn't sussed. To an extent we wanted this to be similar as our character. Wherever she is or whatever shes doing she still has this personality and characteristic of being clumsy and problematic.

The music which is demonstrated in our opening sequence is conventional because its cheerful. Many Romantic comedy's have love songs or similar music. In our opening sequence we didn't include much dialog, as from watching other opening sequence of Rom-Com's they didn't tend to have dialog however, we did use the repeating technique. For example in 'four weddings and a funeral' the word 'fuck' is repeated for effect and to display to the audience that there's a problem. This also adds an element of comedy. In our opening sequence we repeated the word 'shit' twice this added the correct elements. The reason for not using dialog throughout our opening sequence is because many Rom com don't display dialog as it about setting the scene and establishing the character.
However, in our opening sequence we have atmosphere sound to make our opening sequence look natural. Our character JENNY makes noises to show she is annoyed at how clumsy she is being.