Naming Our Film

Today we finally came up with a name for our film. Our film will be called 'Snakes and Ladders'. We have chosen this name because it is a way of describing the ups and downs in relationships like the board game. I am happy with this name because it isn't cheesy and is suitable name for a coming-of-age/romantic film.

Music In Opening Sequence

Legally Blonde
The music used for the opening sequence of Legally Blonde is called 'Perfect Day'. This is a very upbeat and joyful song. The lyrics are reflecting what you see on screen. The characters all look like they are living the ideal life where there is no work and all play. The main protagonist is getting ready in the clip and although the music playing is non-diegetic it is the type of song you would imagine she would listen to while getting ready. It is the ideal song for a chick flick because it is light-hearted and fun song. It would not be ideal for a romantic film, a slower song would suit that type of film better. The same song plays throughout but this does not make the clip boring as the song is what leads up to the big reveal of the lead female. You also hear quieter diegetic sounds such as dialogue.

For our sequence I think we should try and create a piece of music that is not quite as "girly" and cliché ridden as the target audience for our film is slightly different to the one for Legally Blonde. We want our film to appeal to a wider audience and for this to happen we need something less feminine.

Representation

Representation in film is the way certain groups are portrayed. Each group has a stereotype. As the main target audience for romantic films is females you will find in most of these films the lead male is a handsome and romantic and the female is often quite relate-able to most women. For most women this appeals to their romantic sides as most men in real life are not like the ones you see in romantic films. In a lot of these films they show what most women's ideal life would be like, often in a quite unrealistic way, but it appeals to the audience.

Enigma

Suitable Distributors

I have been looking into suitable distributors for our film. Our film is a high budget coming-of-age/romantic film so I have looked at other films with a similar genre.
Mean Girls is a film of a similar genre which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. This distributor is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing film studios. Other films of a similar genre it has distributed include Failure to Launch and Titanic. It has also distributed many box office successes such as Paranormal Activity and Iron Man.
American Pie is film with a coming-of-age genre which was distributed by Universal Studios. It is an American motion picture studio, owned by Comcast, and one of the six major movie studios. It is also one of the longest-lived motion picture studios to be located outside of Hollywood. It has produced many romantic and coming-of-age films. These include Bridesmaids, Leap Year, Definitely Maybe, Love Actually, Bring It On and Sydney White.

Progress

Today we continued working on possible font for out credit sequence. We have decided to not use over fancy font. I think this is a good idea because we want the audience to be able to see the credits clearly. We also found music to play during the 'NNIK Productions' clip. I am happy with the music we chose because I think it suits the clip very well.

Progress

Today we added the music that we created to the opening sequence. Once it was added the clips started jumping so we had to get the media technician to fix it. Once it was fixed I thought it looked really good.