Screen Shot List


Shot #: 1
Duration: 38 seconds
Notes: Focus pull as Voice over being read
Cast: N/A
Camera Angle: Establishing/wide shot of Hardwick Hall being brought into focus.
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 2Duration: 5 seconds
Notes: Caitlin walking towards the camera along with her dog.
Cast: Caitlin, dog
Camera Angle: Long shot, she is walking beside the lake shot stops when she is near the camera but her full body can still be seen.
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 3
Duration: 6 seconds
Notes: Carl proposing to Courtney over by a gate ahead of Caitlin
Cast: Courtney and Carl
Camera Angle: Long shot and eye line view of Carl and Courtney
Camera Moves: Pans across to Carl and Courtney

Shot #: 4Duration: 5 seconds
Notes: Total shock on Caitlin’s face because of what she has seen
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Close up, then fades out
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 5 Duration: 10 seconds
Notes: Door is heard slamming downstairs (Non-diagetic sound)
Cast: Courtney and Carl
Camera Angle: Fade into a close up of underwear on the floor
Camera Moves: Pans upwards to reveal Courtney and Carl in bed together

Shot #: 6
Duration: 4 seconds
Notes: Caitlin shouts up to tell Courtney she is home
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Mid shot
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 7Duration: 6 seconds
Notes: Courtney and Carl jump out of bed and look for somewhere to hide.
Cast: Courtney and Carl
Camera Angle: Long shot
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 8Duration: 5 seconds
Notes: Courtney pushes Carl into her wardrobe.
Cast: Courtney and Carl
Camera Angle: Over the shoulder (Courtney’s)
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 9Duration: 12 seconds
Notes: Door being opened, Caitlin comes into room
Cast: Caitlin and Courtney
Camera Angle: Mid shotCamera Moves: tilts down and up to follow Caitlin bending down to pick up boxers and then gets back up

Shot #: 10
Duration: 4 seconds
Notes: Carl falling out the wardrobe
Cast: CarlCamera Angle: Mid shot
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 11Duration: 5 seconds
Notes: Shock on Caitlin’s face
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Close up, fades out
Camera Moves: Zoom in,

Shot #: 12 Duration: 4 seconds
Notes: Goes back to the original scene
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Close up zooms outs to
Camera Moves: Zoom out to reveal Hardwick Park

Shot #: 13Duration: 2 seconds
Notes: Caitlin turns around, back to camera.
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Mid shot
Camera Moves: N/A

Shot #: 14
Duration: 5 seconds
Notes: Caitlin running away upset, front of her
Cast: Caitlin
Camera Angle: Mid shot
Camera Moves: N/A

Filmboard

...Start......

Girl is walking through Hardwick Hall's park......

See's her ex-best friend and ger ex-boyfriend proposing to her......

FLASHBACK...1 YEAR AGO...

Girl catches boyfriend and best friend in bed together......

FLASHFORWARD... BACK TO HARDWICK HALL...

She runs home......

Title Sequence - over song and her crying......

Couple of weeks later, her other best friend (who's a boy), comes over to cheer her up......

She gets dressed and they go out for a drink......

She get's drunk when they go out and wakes up the next morning in her own bed......

Best friend is in kitchen making them both breakfast. They cuddle......

She goes back to work and tells her boss about her ex- getting married......

She gets a phne call and is asked to arrange some flowers for a wedding, but she doesn't know anything else about it as it's a secret......

She begins to plan the flowers - things go back to normal. Meets her new best mate later to watch a film......

He walks her to the door - She realises she's in love - leaves him at the door......

She goes to work next day - Planning flowers and wishes they were being planned for her wedding as she's all loved up......

Later she goes home and checks she has everything sorted......

He turns up at her house with flower - they kiss and then spend the night together......

Morning of the wedding - she leaves him in bed and goes to work......

Gets there, realises it's her ex-best friend and her ex-boyfriend's wedding......

Runs and hides behind some flowers - gets pushed from behind them - it goes silent - she falls into her ex-boyfriend......

He smiles and says he still loves her she runs away!......

She tries to tell the bride about what he said but she will not listen. When she lifts up the phone however to ring him, he's talking to another girl......

Her ex-best friend tells her to tell the guests to go home. New best mate turns up and asks her to marry him......

Fade out of them kissing......

Cuts to the end scene, later with her husband (best friend) and her ex-best friend (girl) and her new husband

......End...

Costume check...

In our film we will be wearing modern outfits, Catlin will be wearing jeans and a t-shirt whereas Courtney (applying to the fiction between characters) will be wearing a dress, Carl will also be wearing jeans and a t-shirt to sub-consciously link the characters together. However in the bedroom scene Carl will be wearing trousers, however his boxers will be on the floor and say 'Feelin Horny'. Added to this Courtney will be wearing a mans shirt and shorts to show the characters relationship.

Our Storyboard
...Start..


Establishing wide shot: Hardwick Hall,

Long Shot... Girl 1 walking towards the camera,

Pans to... Girl 2 and boy 1 - boy proposing,

Close up... Girl 1 shock!

Flashback... 1 year ago...,

Fade out, then fade in,

Close Up... Knickers and boxers on the floor,

Pans up... Girl 2 and boy 1 on the floor,

Door slams downstairs (non diagetic),

Mid shot... Girl 1 ('I'm home!'),

Long shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 jump up out of bed,

Mid Shot... Girl 2 shoves boy 1 into the wardrobe,

Mid shot and pan... Girl 2 running and lying back down on the bed,

Birds' eye and pan...

Girl 1 walking out of the kitchen and to the bottom of the stairs,

Mid shot... Girl 1 walking up the stairs,

Close up... Girl 1's hand on the door handle,

Long shot... Inside bedroom,

door handle turning,

girl 2 lying on bed,

Long shot... Girl 1 walking in room,

girl 2 lying on the bed, looking nervous,

Close up... Girl 1 picking up a pair of boxers up off of the floor,

Close up... Girl 2's face (scared).

('Oh, I had someone back last night'.),

Close up... Girl 1's face ('So I can see. I'm sure I regocnise these from somewhere!'),

Long Shot... Boy 1 falling out of wardrobe,

Close up... Girl 1 ('You...'),

Flashforwards...to Hardwick Hall...,

Close up... Girl 1 ('Bitch!'),

Pan Shot... Girl 2 and boy 1 looking shocked...

This is my shooting schedule for my media coursework... woop.!.

Script Continued...

FADE IN

EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY

The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park.

VOICE OVER

CAITLIN #1
someone once told me that love is the most unlogical feeling in the world. I didn’t understand this when I was younger but now ive realised that this fact is completely right and that love makes no sense at all. It’s sometimes loud, sometimes quiet; sometimes people don’t mean to love at all. Sometimes it’s confused for lust and others it is turned into admiration. Well whatever it is I believe it is one of the most powerful feelings in the world, it can determine our entire happiness. However its total power to capture our entire thoughts still bewilders the entire human race. I wonder what would happen if there was no love, there would be no friendship, no girlfriends, no husbands or wives and my cheating ex would not be…

There is then a close up of her getting closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)… Caitlin runs off.

Script... Love Squared

Script... Love Squared...

FADE IN:

EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY

The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall; this is an old romantic building. The shot then cuts to a woman (Caitlin), with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park, you see her get closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. A long-shot is used as she sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)… Caitlin runs off.

(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASH BACK)

INT. BEDROOM INSIDE A FLAT #2 – DAY

This is a comfy and modern bedroom. The scene opens with knickers and bras on the floor, this then move to a view of a bed and you see people under the covers giggling. There’s a bang of a door and everything goes quiet before you see Caitlin coming home. Carl and Courtney who have been in the bed together both jump up and quickly find a place for him to hide, the wardrobe being the obvious place. Caitlin finally enters the room but his boxers are still on the floor.

CAITLIN #1
Looks like you had fun last night

COURTNEY #2(PAUSE)
Yes

Caitlin picks the boxers off the floor

CAITLIN #1
He forgot something though, these look familiar.


Carl then falls out the wardrobe where he has been hiding

CAITLIN #1(SHOCKED)
You

(STRAIGHT CUT)(FLASHFORWARD)

EXT. HARDWICK PARK-#1-DAY

Shot of Caitlin’s face

CAITLIN #1
Bitch

My Coursework
In a group of three we are going to produce the opening two minutes of a romance, this will be aimed at young adult’s (15-20), this due to the fact that they will be able to relate to the plot more than other age groups and will understand the jokes involved whereas a higher age group may not.We have decided to stick to the overall traditional romantic comedy and are plot is based around a girl, Caitlin who finds her best-friend, Courtney and boy-friend, Carl together in bed. She leaves them and on an endless search to find love she eventually finds it in her best friend, Matt. Caitlin is a florist and at the same time as love is on the horizon she is asked to produce flowers for a wedding, she does so only to find out that it is her ex-best friend, Courtney and ex-boyfriend, Carl’s wedding. Caitlin has an accident and falls into Carl, he tells her he still loves her so what happens when Caitlin is faced with the question of whether to go back to Matt or retrieve her old love form Carl…what does she do?.........We have set it in a modern time period so the actors will need to wear fashionable and suitable clothing, we will also have to make sure many technical features are in our film to also represent this. The overall Mise-en-scene of our piece will be the flats in which the characters live in, the work place (the florist) and the night life of the town (clubs/bars).

Technological Convergence

Technological convergence is extremely important for radio 1, this due to the fact that there are know other radio stations in which they need to compete with, this through advertising. If radio 1 stuck to only one method of advertisement then it is less likely that people would hear about there show. Added to this if radio 1 stays in touch with new technology and attracts its audience through different forms of entertainment then it is more likely that one of the technologies and methods of listening to the radio will appeal to that audience. However I believe radio 1, whose institution is the BBC advertises mainly to the younger generation, this due to the fact that younger people are not afraid of new advances in technology and are prepared to hear about new things.
Radio 1 does this through its convergence within the technologies; the most popular ways to now listen to the radio are now through the internet and by downloading podcasts. These are more interactive forms of listening to the radio where the audience can get involved and leave comments if they wish. Also to make the audience feel welcomed and safe with the presenters there are now competitions in which the audience can join and at any point the audience can text and ring in. Also there are now webcams which have been placed in the presenters houses and have been placed in the studio, this means the audience can see the presenters at home and at work and will feel more knowledgeable about them. Radio 1 stays in touch with the local news, it performs at local gigs and fund raises ( these including the audience), this sometimes helping radio 1 to place themselves in the public eye and to sell themselves to the audience as they do so.
Even thought radio 1 now advertises more towards the younger generation it allows itself to sell to a higher class (working-class) rather than the lower-classes, this by using the internet for most of its products. There are many people that do not have the internet and therefore cannot experience the same comfort of radio 1 through all its technologies. Added to this many people do not have cars and will not be able to listen to the radio through this.
The internet is now one of the most popular ways to listen to the radio, this through listen again and listen now. With this the audience can access and what a show or if they have missed a show listen to it again through the internet. This will appeal to a wide variety of people, for example people at work or teenagers who use sites such as face book and bebo. It means that the audience can multi-task and listen to the radio at the same time as doing something else on there computer. However this means of listening to the internet is not portable, unlike MP3 Players such as i-Pods where podcasts ca be stored from the internet and taken to where even you go. Added to this the audience can then customize there shows after picking there favourite ones. It is a straightforward way to download and there is good EPG. This also applies for radio through your mobile phone, however the signal sometimes fails.
Radio 1 used many forms of technology to appeal to its audience, however I believe that listening through DAB and Analogue radio is now becoming less popular, this due to the new methods that people are adapting to. The old methods of listening to the radio also were hard to tune, they cost money, they had no visual and they were also impersonal and did not have rewind.
Also Radio 1 advertises in places such as cinemas and through DVD’s and even on the side of cars. It makes sure that it is there for people to see and allows itself to mix into there lives. Audience also have the choice of when they wish to listen to the show and are given the times in which each DJ will be on, each DJ has its own show, the methods and music behind each show are also different. Each presenter is given their own personality and they use this to advertise themselves to the audience.
Overall without the audience’s input into radio 1 there would be no show, the way in which each radio show is given its own advertising stream means that the audience are separated into categories of their favourite show/ presenter, added to this the technology they listen to the show through also creates groups of listeners. Without the technological convergence radio 1 may have less audience as they have less technology and advertising methods to appeal to them.

Idea.....thinking out loud....

Just had an idea,,, Charlotte my dearest member of the group can play the piano-fancy making a little melody for the film missy.?. We can build it up.!._ anyways i will ask her and stop writing comments on here that i wont get an answer for.!. ... ooooo mabye we could create a d.v.d. case for it to go in,,, anyways bye pll...... oxo p.s. d u think we shud send are plot ideas off and see if any1 wants to make them.?.... okay im finkin outside the lil box nw.... p.s. i quite lyk dis blogging.!. oxo

Bruce Almighty

Institutions- BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL
SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Shandy Acres/Pit Bull Production

The film begins by fading in from a black screen, this relates to the black background which is then used. The institutions names are written in a bright white over it and connote a computer screen or a notebook. This relates to a workplace or office. To keep this theme the words are wrote in Times New Roman and are placed in the centre of the screen, this also creates a formal side for the film. The way the words fade in and out may reflect on the memory of the character within the film. However a forward slash is used to make the audience question the tone in which they are about to be addressed. The voice over, which is non-diagetic, then answers this as you hear two people questioning about whether or not they need to wear a hair net. This creates a child like feel for the audience and sets the comical side to the genre. Added to this the people are talking about the worlds largest cookie so imagery is used to create humour. As a black screen is used the audience may feel as if something is being kept secret and so will watch to find out more. Questions will also arise in there head to who the people are and why they are talking about a cookie. The voice over also leads a little into the characters personalities, for example one of the people being self-conscience and not wanting to wear a hair net. It also creates the setting and gives hints that they are in a bakery. There is also non-diagetic music playing over the first scene. I believed this sounding almost like whistling showing a laid-back side to the film. It also could sound quite inspirational and at times, when an instrument is playing monophonically quite peaceful.
The film then fades into a mid/long-shot of cookies in a bakery, however there is shallow focus used on some of the cookies. This iconography allows the audience to connect to what has just been said. The music gets quicker when you see the actor who comes into view from the bottom of the camera, this showing a fun side to his character as he enters the film from an unusual angle. The camera tilts up slightly and there is then a mid-shot of his face. He is wearing a hair net which allows the audience to relate to the voice-over. Added to this the image sets the genre as he uses the prop to make him comical. At this point the words ‘Jim CARREY’ fade into the bottom centre of the screen, the way the change from capitals to lowercase and the way the name fades in and out makes the audience think his character may be indecisive. The actor, still in the mid-shot looks up to the sky, at this point the music slows down and sounds almost religious and choir style. The way he says ‘why do you hate me?’ means the audience can understand he has bad luck from the very first second. Added to this the audience may be able to relate to having bad luck and therefore connect with the character.
There is then a wide-shot if the whole bakery; this is also an establishing-shot as it helps the audience understand each characters role. You see the camera man; the woman reporter and the sound man all wearing black on the right. You then see the main actor ‘Bruce’ in the centre of the scene, he is wearing blue. The cook is stood behind the shelves wearing a white hat and apron; he is stood on the right. The colours each character wears fade into each other as they get lighter to one side, this could show the class of the characters, the status of the characters or it could show how the plot may change and ‘Bruce’ may become white (good) or black (bad) dependant on what he decides. This could also represent later in the story his choice between becoming god and heaven and hell. Added to this you can see a sign on the wall which says ’30 year anniversary’, this allowing the audience to understand a bit more why they are filming the bakery. There are two lights shining either side of the sign which connote happiness for the bakery.
This cuts to a wide and long-shot of the bakers and reporter, the microphone in which ‘Bruce’ is holding says number 7 questions arise in the audience to whether this is an important channel and whether he is wealthy. The camera then zooms into a mid-shot as you see the man behind him picking his nose. This stays with the comedy genre but goes for a more disgusting way of doing it to allow comedy for all the audience. The audience are placed in the point of view of the person recording the news report; this is done through a hand-held camera being used. There is then a mid-shot of the woman and man who films reactions to the man picking his nose, this shows that their views are important to and that they may have something to so with the story. The camera then cuts back to a mid-shot and as ‘Bruce’ leans into the camera it zooms out. This allows the audience to feel as if they are moving and are part of the action. The way mid-shots are used as the camera zooms in and out creates repetitiveness and this shows that maybe they have filmed stories like this before. There is then another mid-shot, keeping the repetitiveness, however it is of the two people filming and it shows that they are important in the process behind the scenes. Added to this the way the shots are quick shows the frustration of the character, this is until he walks past the camera sighing. The camera pans him for a second as he walks past the camera.
The camera then flicks back to using a mid-shot to show that things are back to normal, it also pans slightly to the left as the reporter asks his questions. There is then a short fade in and fade out as they decided to take the shot again. There is a non-diagetic sound of a beep and there is a new take in which the camera is slightly to the right than before, again we are in the point of view of the person who is filming the report. ‘Bruce’ walks past the camera one last time but slightly closer to show that he has lost all interest. Finally a wide and long-shot is used of a cookie being brought onto the screen, there are lots of people crowding and the comical side of the genre is shown yet again.

Woman In Black

In class we studied the opening two minutes to the ‘Woman In Black’, this is a film is part of the horror genre and opens with a title sequence, during this you see white, gravestone type writing wrote upon a black background. Added to this there is cloudy grey mist which almost blows over it. The white writing stands out on the black background; the writing is chipped and also looks almost like flesh or skin on the screen. The names fade in and out almost as if they are disappearing. The fairground type music is used to send the audience into a false sense of security until it changes and becomes creepy as more minor notes are used. The opening overall is very simplistic yet makes the audience aware of the gene and explains about what is to come.
It then cuts into a brightly coloured street, a point-of-view shot is used as you look at the people walking around. At this point there is a non-diagetic sound of a car horn beeping which makes the audience almost jump and prepares them for what’s next. As the camera looks down the street the camera is placed behind bars, these are black and spiky symbolising death and imprisonment. Added to this it stays within the shadows and creates an air of fear for the audience. You then see a car come up the road and the camera pans towards it. There is then a close up shot on the number plate before it pans up to the man paying the driver. The emphasis of the car and driver being paid shows the wealth of the character. Added to this his suit shows that he is wealthy as he can afford expensive clothing. Just before he walks towards a house there is a mid-shot of a car passing very close to him. This connotes blood and death as it is a deep red coloured car.
This opposes the actors non-diagetic whistling as he enters his place of work. Inside the colours are kept quite dark as light attempts to shine through and there is a lot of books and equipment which represent his place of work. Added to this there is only one woman who works there and she is the secretary, this setting the time period for this film.
Overall I believe watching this film has helped me to understand in more detail how to analysis the opening to a film.

Evaluation of the Opening Two Minutes From
‘The Holiday’


The film fades in from a black screen and you see the Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures signs, this telling the audience straight away who produced the film. After this it fades back out into a black screen to fade back into the master shot of a shallow-focused, green image of trees swaying in the wind, this becoming a very bright image with the sun shining through making it bright for the audience. At the same point the names of the companies who helped to make the film are wrote on the screen in old English style writing, the colour of this writing is white to add to the pureness of the film. The way in which the reflection of the water is shown on the trees and has been edited to do this adds to the audience’s content. There is music playing monophonically at this point until the camera pans left and you see a man and a woman run into each others arms kissing changing the focus pulls, this is when more than one instrument begins to play representing both of them playing together. Also the non-diagetic music represents love, romance and joy as it is played in the major key. Added to this non-diagetic sounds of birds whistling, the people kissing and the wind blowing are used to emphasise how peaceful and beautiful the scenery is. It also gives us a clear sound perspective of the two characters.
The two people kissing uses a two-shot, which is close-up, it shows just those two people and the audience is forced into thinking about the emotions they have for each other. The boy wears a light grey suit and the girl wears a white dress representing purity and innocence. The opening scene sets the genre for the audience as soft music sounds and the imagery of people kissing is used. Some of the members in the audience will be able to link to this scene and will connect straight away to the story. The film then cuts to a mid-shot of these two people, the girls is facing backwards and covering the boy’s face, this makes the audience more absent from the opening and leaves them wanting to find out more. Throughout this piece the music is building up as the two people get closer. A duck is shown, without focus in the water; however you hear the sounds of the water non-diagetically. This connects the film to nature which is meant to be calm and pretty. The white writing is placed on the bottom centre of the screen as the people kiss above it; the writing portrays more of the first film in which we are lead to believe is the opening, however the film begins to zoom out and you see the two people kissing in a mid-shot of them on a computer screen. As the camera zooms out more, a wide shot is used to revel film editing equipment. This bringing the audience back to reality and sets a modern time period for the film. Afterwards you see that there are two computers one in which the music is being composed and one in which the film has been playing on. Added to this there are phones, pens and notepads on the desk all suggesting a high class lifestyle of the characters involved.
The camera then pans down to a man hands playing on a keyboard and controlling the notes on the screen, a mid shot is used to show the full size of the keyboard, added to this it keeps mystery for the character (especially because he wears black), even though you know he composers’ music. White writing is placed over his black clothes, this makes them stand out for the audience, the way ‘A Film By’ is wrote smaller this emphasising the name of the writer for the audience who can appreciate it more. The camera carries on panning up and zooming out as you then see the man playing the keyboard. The actor then leads into the camera to turn a long-shot into a mid-shot shot as he turns to almost look at the camera. There is then a jump-cut and you see a mid-shot of the man hid behind a computer, again the audience feel as if they are being isolated from the action. There then is a voice over which has been placed over the film at the editing stage. At the same time the actresses name is wrote over the computers black screen, using black as a background each time they write a name emphasises the writing even more and brings it to the audience’s attention.
As the voice over begins the actor starts to smile, this cuts to a close up of a girl who is on the phone. She is also smiling; linking the two together as another close up of the actor is used to focus upon his emotions towards her. A long-shot is then shown of the girl walking towards the man, as she walks towards him the camera zooms out and you can see the green trees blowing in the wind outside, these still in shallow-focus linking to the film in which the man is composing music for. The girl is however wearing brown representing old and dirty, this could reflect how they relationship will change later in the film. There is then a wide-shot used of the two together, he grabs her hand which then cuts to a close-up of there hands together as he kisses it suggesting to the audience that they are in a relationship. There are then a few mid-shots of the two as they tug each others hand to get away. This makes the audience almost part of the action and gives them the point-of-view of the actors. However there is not one shot of the two together showing that they are not very close as a couple. The last mid-shot shows the man smiling at the girl as it cuts to a long-shot of her running up the stairs, at this point the camera is slightly tilted up the stairs creating more distance between us and the actress. This cuts back to the man playing the keyboard happily. This then pans across a black screen and cuts to another scene, at the same time the music is in a major key and more than one instrument is played, added to this the music becomes louder to show the change of scenery.
The camera stops panning and there is a close-up of a woman in white driving a black car, she is wearing silver earrings which also suggest a wealthy background. She looks at the camera disappointed as it cuts to another close-up of a man wearing black, the black and white colours oppose each other, and this represents the relationship that the two share. Looking at the scenery you can still see trees, however they are brown and dull, this also representing the relationship, the music slows down and only one note is heard at a time. The voice over also narrates the story as she explains that ‘love fades’.
After this there is a straight-cut to the back of the car, this clarifies the wealth of the character. A mid-shot is used to show the car at first to the audience, to emphasise each detail a wide shot is used making it look almost as if you are going to run into it. The colours stay quite dark; however the red car lights stand out and almost stand for the hatred that may be in some of the characters in the car; however it may stand for the love and romance between them. Added to this there is an American number plate, telling the audience where the film will take place. The camera then tilts up as the car drives away and goes into a crane shot of the road it is driving along as the music speeds up before the film begins.

Treatment For My Romantic Film
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall, then cutting to a woman (Caitlin) who is a florist, with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park, you see her get closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. She sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)…

There is then a flashback to a year before this incident and the scene opens with knickers and bras on the floor, this then moves to a view of a bed and you see people under the covers giggling. There’s a bang of a door and everything goes quiet before you see Caitlin coming home. Carl and Courtney who have been in the bed together both jump up and quickly find a place for him to hide, the wardrobe being the obvious place. Caitlin finally enters the room but his boxers are still on the floor, with slight hesitation Courtney explains that she had someone to stay last night and just as Caitlin states she recognises the boxers Carl falls out of the wardrobe. Then the word ‘YOU’

… ‘BITCH’ is heard as it goes back to Hardwick Hall. Caitlin then runs away and goes back home. The title sequence is shown over an image of Caitlin crying and this then builds up to her singing the song in floods of tears, various images are shown of her eating ice-cream, watching films and crying to show the passage of time.

The next scene opens and Caitlin is in her bed looking depressed, there’s a knock at the door which she assumes is her take-away. However it is her best friend, Matt a brown haired muscular man. He walks in and takes control; taking care of Caitlin’s every need. He turns some music on and starts dancing around the room, he tells her to get in the shower and get ready (but still manages to fall over) he then persuades her they are going out. They both go down to the local pub in a taxi; she has one too many drinks and goes to sing on the karaoke. At the pub she bumps into an associate who organises weddings, she gives them her number in case they wish to use her services.
The film then cuts to the morning after, Caitlin has a hangover and she gets up to find Matt making her pancakes in the kitchen, he has drawn a smiley face on the pancake with chocolate sauce and has put orange juice and Caitlin’s toy dog that he brought her for her birthday on the table.
She goes up behind him and cuddles him, he tells her he had to bring her home last night because she was so drunk, they begin to laugh about the karaoke. Caitlin then gets a phone call from the wedding planner (Kate) who tells her she has mis-booked and needs some flowers urgently for a wedding in two days, she does not mind what type they are and wants her to be at the wedding for ten thirty in the morning. She tells Matt whilst rushing around he room and getting ready, she leaves him a spare set of keys and goes straight out to order the flowers, she has a new excitement for life, the trees are green and the sky is blue she picks white and red roses for the wedding to match the red cake.
She goes back home and notices a note under the door, it is from Matt telling her to be at the local pub at nine, she goes and finds out he has arranged for them to go to the cinema together, they are the only ones watching that film, so start laughing and joking about it and start running up and down the aisle and jumping on the seats. He then buys her an ice-cream and takes her home, he walks her back up to her front door, there is a silence as they decide whether to kiss each other or not. They then both turn away and laugh it off as if nothing happened, Matt gets in the car and drives away as Caitlin realises the feelings she has for him.
It’s the next morning and she has one more day to sort out the flowers she goes out to collect them from the shop. She travels home and begins to arrange the flowers there. Later there is a knock on the door and its Matt he sings her a song at the door and then she laughs and lets him in, one thing leads to another and they kiss… There’s slow love music played and she slowly giggles. She then drags him into the house and one thing leads to another.

It cuts to the morning after and she is lay in bed with him, she leaves the room quietly getting dressed and leaves the toy dog in her place. She has also left him orange juice on the bed side table. It’s the morning of the wedding so she drives to the church she puts the flowers out where they should be and then goes to see Kate; however she finds her talking to Carl, Caitlin’s ex-boyfriend. She hides behind some flowers and then realises that it is his wedding she has been arranging the flowers for. Kate eventually leaves the conversation and as Caitlin tries to move away she trips over a cable on the floor and falls straight on the floor in front of Carl. He then lifts her up laughing and says she has not changed a bit. She starts to feel relaxed as they have a cup of tea; however he then takes this too far and tries to kiss her. As he does this general flashbacks of their life together are shown before they get quicker and she pushes him away.

Whilst running away Caitlin notices Courtney her ex-best friend, who is also the bride. Without hesitation she tells her she should not marry Carl. Courtney is not willing to listen and confronts her about being at her wedding. She attempts to push her out and as she does this Caitlin explains that she can prove it. They stop fighting and Caitlin says that if she rings Carl without him knowing you are here he will say what he did. Courtney is unsure but she is willing to find out the truth so agrees. They go to use the church phone and with picking it up hear the voice of Carl arranging to go out with another girl who is whispering seductively back down the phone. Courtney puts the phone down.

After deliberation she sends Caitlin down to tell everyone the wedding is off, as Carl realises what has happened he goes to run away back down the aisle but is tripped up by someone’s foot at the end and falls into the cake. Matt then turns up with a cake and asks if she wishes to marry him. Without question she says yes! Later it is revealed that Matt learnt about the wedding being cancelled from Courtney as she passed him in her car (they had also been childhood friends but had lost contact).

It then cuts to the last scene where you see a year in the future, Caitlin and Matt are sat together laughing in an old country house. Courtney then walks in with her new husband Aaron announcing that dinner is ready.

Genre: Romance

Narratives (the kinds of stories)

A couple who have to find each other. Their may be two or one of these couples within the story. The woman or man have failed with love in the past and after they often becomes friends, then they both realise there love for each other after a series of hesitant moves on both there parts.

Settings

Each others house,
Forest-deep in the country side,
City,
Could live anywhere in the world but the two will meet eventually.

Stock characters

Perfect man
Hopelessly devoted woman
The best friend
The boyfriends/girlfriends/EX’S
Sidekick

Iconography

Love music
Red-hearts, warm colours
When something goes wrong-pathetic fallacy (weather affecting story)

Audience – Cassie?

Woman-teens and young adults.


Films
The Holiday
What Woman Want
Sex and the city
Notting Hill
Love Actually
13 going on 30
How to loose a guy in 10 days

Box office (money earned by the genre films) - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

My Big Fat Greek Wedding = $241,438,208
What Women Want = $182,811,707
Hitch = $179,495,555
Pretty Woman = $178,406,268
There’s Something About Mary = $176,484,651

Editing techniques

Close ups of main people-them kissing
Flashbacks used
Crane shot/p.o.v shot/establishing shot to open.

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