In this presentation we analyzed and researched into the audience age groups that commonly tend to go and view Romcoms in the cinema, we also analyzed other title sequences from the same genre.
Monday, 3 February 2014
Friday, 31 January 2014
Journal 31.01.14 - story board for title sequence
In todays lesson me, Laxmi and Aaron, started to plan the story board for our title sequence. One of the ideas we primarily came up with was that we would film the train of a brides dress sweeping down a church isle, as doing so the floor would merge into the image of a rail way track. However due to the lack of time we have in order to complete the title sequence, this would not be possible to edit.
Another idea in which we thought of was using a polaroid camera and taking photos of a wedding setting allowing them to float down on a black background with hand written titles bellow the image, however the more we thought about this the more simple we felt in would be.
Finally we come up with the idea of having the titles based around the bride getting ready on her wedding day, the shots would start with the bride sat at her vanity fixing her hair. Using extreme close-up's we would then film the bride applying her make-up such as mascara. Then panning down slowly to her lips and applying red lipstick. We chose the colour red purposely as the colour red connoted sex and romance, therefore giving the audience a hint into what the film is about with out suggesting too much. The camera then moving slowly to then vanity surface itself to reveal to the audience two train tickets and red nail polish in which the female character applies and then blows dry. From this the camera will then pan left to a bed post in which would have a males black tie hanging off, panning up from this to an unmade bed, giving the suggestion of sex, perhaps even hinting slightly at an affair. The next shot will be of the bed side table with will have a photo of a happy couple placed next to it an engagement ring, in which the bride to be picks up again and places back onto her finger, therefore hinting again at the idea of an unfair and she has been unfaithful, from this her hand will move up to the image of the happy couple in which she places her hand on and pushes it face down onto the surface. This suggests to the audience that she no longer wants to marry her fiance.
This is the story boarding idea we come up with:
This is the story boarding idea we come up with:
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Monday, 27 January 2014
Codes and Conventions Romantic Comedy Genre
We established the codes and conventions of the Romcom genre and displayed them in the presentation below. This will help us when we are creating our title sequence as we will follow these codes and conventions and incorporate them into our title sequence.
RomCom brainstorm from shiyanil
In our title sequence we will be following these codes and conventions however we are going to sub convert some of them and go against the conventions such as not including a voice over. In addition to this starting the title sequence from the males perspective instead of the females. One of the conventions that we are following is the location as our piece is set in the city.
In our title sequence we will be following these codes and conventions however we are going to sub convert some of them and go against the conventions such as not including a voice over. In addition to this starting the title sequence from the males perspective instead of the females. One of the conventions that we are following is the location as our piece is set in the city.
Production Company Logo
Before creating our title sequence we had to create a production company. We came up with many suggestions such as
xoxo productions
runaway love films
etc.
In the end we decided the best name for the production company was Romway films as it includes the idea that the films produced by our production company are Romcoms, therefore establishes the genre of our film and title sequence to the audience.
xoxo productions
runaway love films
etc.
In the end we decided the best name for the production company was Romway films as it includes the idea that the films produced by our production company are Romcoms, therefore establishes the genre of our film and title sequence to the audience.
The above image was just our starting point when designing the production company logo. From this we adapted our logo to look like this. This was due to some of the feedback we received from Sinead, she thought the concept of the first logo was good however could be improved with a better design, such as a hand drawn love heart. From this we created the new logo by hand drawing out the heart and then scanning the image onto the compute editing it in photoshop to add the production company title and then uploading it onto our blogs. we felt this new logo had a more personal feel due to the hand drawing of the heart.
Roland Barthes- Enigma Codes
" All narratives share structural features that are brought together in different ways"
Barthes view is that although there is differences between narratives they all have a limited number of structure and organisation, that may effect or adapt the readers way of interpreting the texts these are known as Enigma codes.
Barthe believes that there is always more that one way in which the audience can interpret/read a text, in addition to this he also believes that within a set text there is a number of different meanings and interpretations instead of just one set one. He believes that the only way to understand the texts true meaning is by reading it and then reading it again. This is because every time you read a text you may read it a different way to a which you read it the first time, therefore another meaning comes to surface.
Barthe believes that the audience should have a "writerly" approach when reading the text instead of a "readers" approach, in order to understand it fully. Barthe believes the audience should read a text for its linear plot and be controlled by it. Furthermore he argues that we should take the existence of these codes as a invitation to adapt and read the text in order to bring out the different meanings and connotations within it.
Readerly Texts
Barthe believes that most texts are "readerly texts" these are texts that are usually presented in the usual linear form this is the traditional forma and it simply gives the audience information so that they can receive it. These texts are usually written in the simplistic form in order for the text to give away another other multiple meanings.
Writerly Texts
These texts reveal the content that the readerly texts try to convey, therefore giving the texts multiple meanings. From these texts the audience are now in a position where they can read and adapt the texts giving it different meanings.
Barthe believes that everything the audience view have a purpose behind it and include a certain element within them to intrigued the audience and draw them in.
The Narrative/ Enigma codes.
Barthe has a theory that there are five codes that will group together signifiers by the role they act out in a text.
These are the :
The Hermeneutic Code- Voice of Truth
- This is when the element of the story is not fully exposed to the audience, leaving it open as a mystery, leaving questions unanswered to the viewers.
The Proairetic Code- the voice of empirics
- This builds tension, this is by leading onto another event or action that may take place, opening the audience up to the question, Whats going to happen next?
The Semantic Code- the voice of the person
-This refers to the connotations within the story, which will give another meaning or multiple meaning to whats taking place on the screen.
The Symbolic Code- the voice of the symbol
-This is similar to the semantic meaning, however it is broader and can open the viewer up to a wider meaning.
The cultural Code- Voice of Knowledge
- This refers to anything that cannot be challenged and is assumed to be a element of truth.
In my sequence i am going to use enigmas to suggest to my audience the plot of the film. In my title sequence i am going to use The Hermeneutic Code, at the ending of the sequence, when Aaron gets hit by a moving vehicle, the screen will cut to darkness and the only indication that he has been hit will be the sounds of the crash, the audience will then have unanswered questions as to whether or not his character survives. Also due to the two main characters never meeting the audience are left over to whether the couple meet and fall in love and get their happy ending therefore another enigma involved is The Proairetic code.
Barthes view is that although there is differences between narratives they all have a limited number of structure and organisation, that may effect or adapt the readers way of interpreting the texts these are known as Enigma codes.
Barthe believes that there is always more that one way in which the audience can interpret/read a text, in addition to this he also believes that within a set text there is a number of different meanings and interpretations instead of just one set one. He believes that the only way to understand the texts true meaning is by reading it and then reading it again. This is because every time you read a text you may read it a different way to a which you read it the first time, therefore another meaning comes to surface.
Barthe believes that the audience should have a "writerly" approach when reading the text instead of a "readers" approach, in order to understand it fully. Barthe believes the audience should read a text for its linear plot and be controlled by it. Furthermore he argues that we should take the existence of these codes as a invitation to adapt and read the text in order to bring out the different meanings and connotations within it.
Readerly Texts
Barthe believes that most texts are "readerly texts" these are texts that are usually presented in the usual linear form this is the traditional forma and it simply gives the audience information so that they can receive it. These texts are usually written in the simplistic form in order for the text to give away another other multiple meanings.
Writerly Texts
These texts reveal the content that the readerly texts try to convey, therefore giving the texts multiple meanings. From these texts the audience are now in a position where they can read and adapt the texts giving it different meanings.
Barthe believes that everything the audience view have a purpose behind it and include a certain element within them to intrigued the audience and draw them in.
The Narrative/ Enigma codes.
Barthe has a theory that there are five codes that will group together signifiers by the role they act out in a text.
These are the :
The Hermeneutic Code- Voice of Truth
- This is when the element of the story is not fully exposed to the audience, leaving it open as a mystery, leaving questions unanswered to the viewers.
The Proairetic Code- the voice of empirics
- This builds tension, this is by leading onto another event or action that may take place, opening the audience up to the question, Whats going to happen next?
The Semantic Code- the voice of the person
-This refers to the connotations within the story, which will give another meaning or multiple meaning to whats taking place on the screen.
The Symbolic Code- the voice of the symbol
-This is similar to the semantic meaning, however it is broader and can open the viewer up to a wider meaning.
The cultural Code- Voice of Knowledge
- This refers to anything that cannot be challenged and is assumed to be a element of truth.
In my sequence i am going to use enigmas to suggest to my audience the plot of the film. In my title sequence i am going to use The Hermeneutic Code, at the ending of the sequence, when Aaron gets hit by a moving vehicle, the screen will cut to darkness and the only indication that he has been hit will be the sounds of the crash, the audience will then have unanswered questions as to whether or not his character survives. Also due to the two main characters never meeting the audience are left over to whether the couple meet and fall in love and get their happy ending therefore another enigma involved is The Proairetic code.
Journal 24.01.14 change of initial title sequence idea to Romcom
In todays lesson me Laxmi and Aaron, have changed our original genre from horror to Romcom. The plot of the story has further more changed .
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.
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.
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Karin Fong
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