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Analysis of Romantic Comedy Film Posters from KieraTolhurst1

WHAT IS A SHORT FILM? A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where the boundary is drawn, however the Academy of Motion Picture defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including credits."  Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and produced by independent filmmakers with a low budget.  EXAMPLE OF A POPULAR SHORT FILM On the website IMDB, it states that the most popular short film on record is "Tangled Ever After", which has a running time of only six minutes. The reason for it's success is due to the short film's sequel to the original Disney film, "Tangled" which earned a total gross of $200, 821, 936. Because the characters were so engaging and the story-line so enjoyable, when the film finished at a marriage proposal, many people were eager to watch the six minute sequel which fol...

Screen Gems Screen Gems is an American film production and distribution studio that is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. It has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation. Many of its releases are of the horror, thriller, action, comedy and urban genres . Screen Gems is the subsidiary of the Big Six conglomerate Sony and therefore is highly professional in the production and distribution of their films and could receive a larger budget than other Independent distributors and producers due to it's giant parent company.    Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (known simply as Sony Pictures and abbreviated as SPE) is an American entertainment company that produces and distributes films through multiple platforms. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2015 (April 2015 – March 2016) has been reported to be of $8.3 billion further suggesting tha...

Analysis of a film poster from ambsmales  

Restricted and Unrestricted Narration is where a film industry will tell a story however can change the tension levels of the film and the surprise element by varying between restricted and unrestricted narration. Restricted Narration is where the producer of the film hides certain information from the audience so that the outcome and ending events of the sequence are made more surprising as the audience aren't aware of certain facts within the film and because of this, the ending is more impactful and effective. Moreover, due to not all of the information being clear and portrayed in the film, the build up towards the events ending the film are made more tense and gripping to the audience. Unrestricted Narration is where the producers of the film don't hide any information from the audience and therefore the ending is more clear and anticipated. Despite the fact there are no hidden surprises within the journey, the build up can still build tension and grip the audience a...

Cinematography | Media Studies from tyler_beever

Romantic Comedy – Sound   Non-diegetic soundtracks are the most used and the best way in which romantic comedies can create the feeling of excitement, tension or surprise . It leads and somewhat manipulates the audience to feel a sense of humour and cautious of what is going to happen, this can be contrasted with the use of iconography to build the atmosphere. This can be linked to how the editing is used with the aspect of cinematography to make the audience guess what’s going to happen or how the event will take place . From the sub-genre, the use of upbeat modern or slow 'classical' music makes a large impact on audience’s emotions . An old ‘classical’ song from a record may be played, however the sound will be incorporated to make it sound upsetting , meaningful and heart-breaking . The way the rhythm and pace of the music is carried out can create a sense of joy and upset and reflect the mood of the characters. It can be disordered with added sound to juxtap...

BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE We have decided, as a group, to produce a 'behind-the-scenes' video to compliment our final product. When we begin filming on Thursday, we are planning to take a smaller, more compact camera which will be effective to film 'vlog' type footage on. The video will be casual and relaxed, but very informative as we film clips from our filming process, our location, characters etc. This will mean we have more information which we can reflect on when we come to the evaluation process nearing the end of the blog. We will all share behind the scenes filming as we will all be featured in the final film at some point (meaning we can't film the behind-the-scenes at the same time.) For example, if Louis is playing a character in the film he cannot film the vlog-type footage however Amber may be available to film this as she may not be included in that particular clip. When film industries do a behind the scenes film they talk about what the film is ...

The Potential Audience for our film Romantic Comedies often play off of stereotypes and are mostly centred around love; usually with a female character's quest for love, although sometimes it is a male character who is the protagonist and hopeless romantic. Because of this, the most common audience for remedies are females, furthermore, RomComs often get linked to teen films and chic flicks giving them another common audience of teenagers and young adults. Overall the most common audience group for RomComs is teenage girls. It is believed that RomComs attract female audiences around the age of 12 to 24 however the average audience figures can very when taking into account the family audience they additionally attract. Young females and families are possibly a more popular audience for these films because of the light and 'soppy' branded plots. Most romantic comedies/chic flicks base their film on teenage romance which is the same theme we're using in our film, thus a ...

Love Sick "Love Sick" tells the story of a man who is unlucky in love and always seems to be the heartbroken rather than the heartbreaker. After his most recent girlfriend breaks up with him he begins on a solemn and downcast walk home until he gets to the railway station and meets "the girl of his dreams"  and he begins on a chase to finding her. After an arduous and labyrinthine journey to find her he discovers she has a boyfriend. After going on a wild goose chase he sits down in the park once more dejected fearing he'll never find love, until a jogging woman runs past and he goes off chasing her. This film is similar to ours as the protagonist almost has to go on a quest to find true-love and it ends in bad news with him feeling heartbroken and dejected much like the post-it note map our character goes on only to discover the web of notes weren't for him.  Love Actually "Love Actually" tells the story of n ine intertwined stories ex...

Restricted A guy is sat in the nucleus doing some extra work and then suddenly feels hungry and gets a craving for crisps. He waits a bit until he can't fight his cravings anymore, he packs his college stuff away and then heads off to the vending machine to get his packet of crisps. He heads down the stairs and across the atrium and finally gets to the vending machine where he is eager to eat some crisps. He finally gets to the vending machine where he is greeted by heartbreak as on the vending machine is a sign saying "SORRY OUT OF SERVICE" heartbroken he slides down the glass and a little tear falls as he'll have to stay hungry. Unrestricted A guy is sat in the nucleus doing some extra work and then suddenly feels hungry and gets a craving for crisps. He waits a bit which turn out to be a fatal error for him. He waits until he can't fight his cravings anymore and then packs his college stuff away and heads off to the vending machine to get his packet of ...

Audiences Romantic-Comedy films are often referred to as chick-flick films. These films are often aimed at a female audience and the age ranges from 18 up to 50. This is due to this genre of films having a light hearted nature that doesn't take much thinking about. Traditionally,romantic comedy films don't showcase serious topics but in recent years it has become more popular to introduce these more serious topics into the genre. However, there are different types of Romantic-Comedy films that are aimed at different audiences.  High School Musical This franchise of films are musical Romantic-Comedies aimed at teenagers. High School Musical is one of the highest grossing teen romantic comedy films ever due to its light hearted nature and upbeat songs.

Warp Films Warp films is an independent film and television company based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1999 by Warp records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The first film by the company was made in 2002 and was named My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117. In 2003 this film won the award for Best Short Film at the BAFTA Awards. After the creation of this film the company went on to create many films aimed at a niche market. Some films the company distributed were: This is England by Shane Meadows  (2006) Four Lions by Chris Morris (2010) Why should this company distribute our short film, Rendezvous? Warp Films should distribute our short film Rendezvous as it is a Romantic-Comedy aimed at teenagers which is quite a specific target audience. This company specialises in films aimed at a niche market audience and has won many awards for distributing and creating these films at such high quality. ...