We decided that most romantic films have a plot that starts of in a calm state of exposition, this is where the two lovers are in love and happy, then the action rises to a climax within the film this is usually the part within the plot where something goes wrong, that tears the two lovers apart, this then leads to the part of the story where it is sad as the lovers are apart and lonely and it is the emotional part of the movie, this is the denouement part of the plot. This then leads to the resolution of the plot, normally it’s a happy ending and they are together again. This is the generic convention for a romance film.
This is a diagram that explains the plot of most narratives
When we were producing the idea of the narrative to our film we wanted to create a plot that was similar to the normal convention as we could create a clear storyline of what we wanted in our film trailer. We started by deciding the main characters in our film we decided to use a couple that were already together as we wanted our trailer to look like natural chemistry not false or acted. We are using Georgia White and Jimmy Vick Taylor. So now we had our main characters we decided to start the story with them in love, to portray this in our trailer we decided to start with opening shots of them in love, so the audience get a well-defined idea of that they are the main characters and are together, this would be the exposition of the plot, this would then lead to the conflict within the storyline, then we want this to cut straight to the climax of the narrative. Then we want to see a shot of our main male character in a prison cell this is then where the plot starts the denouement, we then want to use the split screen to show them now separated. We want this to be the emotional and touching part of the film/trailer. He then gets released from prison and goes back to their house, however he then sees a shot of her with someone else. However in the trailer we don’t see weather there is a happy ending or not.
Our film idea defiantly fits with the generic conventions of the romance genre. This is why our storyline will work well and I think this will give the audience a chance to understand our idea fully. This is a diagram of the different shots that we want to use within our trailer, we made a list of as many shots as we could as from our research we could see that we needed a variety of different shots. Within these different shots we are going to make sure they look in love. We think this will really portray our romance idea and make the audience feel emotional.
We then had to think of what we were going to name our film I think this was the hardest part we spent ages and we wanted it to be really clever and we wanted to include the idea of prison in the title. We thought of many ideas like:
- Inside
- Life Bound
- Sacrifice
- Convict Of Affection
- Jail
- Doing Time
- Borrowed Time
- Locked
These were all good names but we felt they didn’t portray our romance idea well, however the jail idea was evident in these titles, but we wanted our idea to be more subtle so it doesn’t give the idea of jail away straight away. So we carried on brainstorming and we thought of the idea on intimate as this is the idea of love and romance, then we saw that this could also be changed into In-Mate, which is what another word for prisoner is. So we thought of ways in which we could show this to the audience and we thought of some good ideas including the letters being in handcuffs or prison bars so we thought if we create the title we could see if our idea would actually work. Here is the first title we created we used the idea od handcuffs around the T and the I in the middle of the word intimate to show the idea of in-mate. To create the title we used Abdobe Photoshop CS3 as this allowed us to create our idea virtually.
I think this title looks good however I don’t think it gives a clear idea of what the title is actually about I think that people will get confused with what the film title is and what we are trying to portray. I also think that the idea of prison is too obvious. So I think we should create another title using a different idea and develop it.
This is the second title that we created I prefer this title as I think that the prison element is more subtle and looks more creative, the text also looks really good as I think that it looks romantic. And the hands holding the prison bars on the T and the I portray the idea of violence. I also think that the black works really well as it looks simple but effective, however when we add this to our film poster and magazine we might have to adapt the colour so it doesn’t blend in with the background. We are going to use this title instead of the first one we created.
