Further Research - Fifty Shades Of Grey

The beginning of this trailer will be the same feel as my three minute clip. From twenty-two seconds onwards the girl begins to talk to the man but the audience only sees parts of him or he is in the background blurred. He even talks and walks around the office but the audience continues to imagine what he looks like up until he is finally revealed. There is the use of continuous black outs as a part of the editing which adds to the mystery of the man's character I hope to create this same mystery for Chloe, my main character. Each movement he makes is followed by a black shot to a further position he is in, this makes an audience member wonder what will happen next, almost like a sense of excitement.

Exploring the Genre

Trailers of Anti-Rom-Com's:



This is more of a film which is similar to mine in terms of the boy is full of emotion versus the girl lacks it. The male in 500 Days of Summer is very set on traditional values much like my character 'Jack' will be like, i.e. he is romantic and longing for the girl. I quite liked how the film progressed through 'Day 1' to 'Day 500', although I could not do this in my film because I am already including a voice over and otherwise it would become too confusing. There are generic conventions of rom-com's used in this trailer, for example a couple getting into an argument, then rowing, an engagement ring, friends giving advice. These will all be used within 'Chloe' and so my genre falls into the category of anti-rom-com; the sub-genre of the major genre, romance.




The Break-Up is a conventional rom-com where by the girl is emotional and longing for the guy to change his mind in the matter of their relationship. This will eventually be the story line of my film although the first two minutes which the audience sees, they will not know about their relationship, how it ends or whether it was a relationship unless they watch my entire film produced. The music is also a building piano song which is what I will use, a song which builds in tempo. The genre uses a variety of shots i.e. long shots and tracking shots which I will use in my opening scene. The main characters in the break-up are a male and a female which is a generic convention of romance/ anti-rom-com genres.

Character Profiles

Chloé 

 

- Age: 19
- Job: Entrepreneur
- Likes: Fashion, Work, Coffee, Social Media
- Dislikes: Lazy people, Love, Sleazy men, Emotion
- Clothing style: Designer, Office colours (Black, White, Metallics)
- Role in the narrative: The audience will not feel sympathy towards her, if anything the audience will dislike her purely out of jealousy but also because she has men's desire.



Jack

 

- Age: 21
- Job: Writer of books and plays
- Likes: Reading, Exercise, Love, All things old fashioned, Marriage
- Dislikes: Aggressive people, Therapists, Breakups
- Clothing style: Simple, Not brand conscious,
- Role in the narrative: The audience sympathises with Jack as he is emotional but the girl he wants is not. From Jack's voice over the audience begins to feel even more sympathy for him, maybe because of their own heartbreak in the past.

Treatment - First Draft