The title for our project is called Train Affairs, the plot behind this is the story of a male and female City office workers to first encounter each other on their commute to work on the busy south eastern service to London Charing Cross Station,London. At first the pair do not converse, however there is a strong attraction towards each other, this is shown to the audience through voice overs of what each character is thinking.
eventually the pair are seated next to each other one morning and the male character asks the female character out on a date. However the male character does not show up to this date and the female character is left feeling angry,rejected and dissapointed. It turns out that the male character was involved in a tragic accident in which he was unable to make their date, from this accident he was left with memory loss, meaning he forgot who he was, who she was and all about their date. However as the years go by the man starts to regain his memory, one day remembering about the girl he fell in love with on the train. In one last hope to regain their relationship and her love he takes a chance and gets the train they used to see each other on of a morning on the way to work, in hope she still gets it. To his surprise he finds her, she is still sat in the same carriage as she did all those years ago. He goes over to her, she does not look to happy to see him but at the same time is also shocked. After explaining to her why he was unable to attend their date, she sympathizes with him. However now she is married and has moved on. However her love for him and lust is still therefor. Therefore she arranges to meet him after work, from this a affair begins. Will they end up together? will she leave her husband ? is the unanswered question.
In the lesson we brainstormed different ways in which we could create a title sequence for this. we decided one idea we all liked was using a wedding theme to present this. perhaps using place cards and seating plans etc to display the titles. Also using a wedding cake and figures such as the bride and groom dolls and knocking the groom over and changing him for another groom doll, in order to foreshadow to the audience the upcoming events that will take place. Moreover there will also be train tickets present in order to hint at the setting of where the two characters first meet. We will also use many different props in order to hint at the plot of the story. We have decided that we will look at other films such as Vanilla Sky's, the wedding planner, 27 dresses etc in order to inspire our title sequence.
originally we was going to base our title sequence around the genre of romance, however our research showed us that the general conventions of a romance film is that they do not have title sequences therefore we adapted our genre to Romcom.
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