MAIN Post 8: Pre-production documenatation

Synopsis of whole film
The film is about a young women called Jenny and her hetic life and unorgansied personality. Shes editor or a fashion magazine and lives in a rented flat with her friend called Sophie. You see her go on lots of dates and everytime something goes wrong, luck comes her way and she finally meets the man of her dreams and finds the love shes been looking for, her life becomes less hetic and she learns to be more organsied.

Synopsis of opening sequence
In the opening sequence we see the young women running around her room showing her getting ready for her day, this is very chaotic as her room is very messy showing her unorgansied lifestyle.  All the credits will be made with objects so we will make them flow with the film for instance fridge magnets.

Treatment

Shot List

We decided to use some of the titles included in the opening sequence for instance having the directors name in the opening sequence as we saw this in some sitcoms we also have some titles that are edited in as not every title can be put in the opening sequence with objects. Both sitcoms i looked at also have all edited titles so it is still staying within the conventions.



Location Recce

We havent used many location as our character lives in a flat with her flat mate so if we showed lots of different rooms it would make her seem like she owned a big flat/house and she wouldnt be able to afford that.


Props and Costume List

Risk Assesment

Shooting Schedule

Day	Shots	Time
Tuesday 22nd February	ALL SHOTS WILL BE FILMED	12- onwards until natural light is too dark

Mise-en-scene Description

Set Design/ Location

Our Rom-com is set in a house the main character is a girls so we are using a bed room that is pink and has white furniture we also use the bathroom and kitchen as she is a young women she won’t have loads of money so we want the sets to look basic and show of her character

Lightening

There was natural lightening coming through the whole back wall of the bedroom, this will be good as we won’t have to use any artificial lighting and it will make the shots look natural, there is also ceiling light in the bedroom and a bedside table light if the natural light is too dim. The bathroom also has windows across one whole wall and as it’s at the front of the house there is a lot of natural light this will once again give the clips natural look, the bathroom does have a ceiling light but we probably won’t use it if it’s light outside. The kitchen has windows along too walls as its situated at the back of the house, there isn’t a lot of natural light but there is artificial lighting we can use. Rom-com are light and bubbly and I think this needs to be shown through having bright lighting preferably natural as it will look more realistic.

Props

 All of are props are used to put across JENNYs personality and information about her life for instance we are going to have fashion magazines all over her bed and floor to show she’s interested in fashion she will also knock over a box of tampons to have the comedy element of the Rom-Com. All of our titles are used with props as we have seen this is quite common in Rom-coms we are using fridge magnets, makeup and handwritten titles this allows the titles to link with the characters ands also gives the natural realistic styles that Rom-Coms have. Many of our props are everyday items such as toothbrush, make up, toothpaste, clocks this puts across to the audience her normal life style so they can relate to her another form of style of a Rom-Com.

Costume

JENNY= when she wakes up she will be wearing shorts and a vest top as her bed wear, when she gets ready for work she will be wearing a tight black skirt, plain top and a blazer her work clothes shows that she has quite a good job as she is dressed smartly and it also shows she quite fashionable she will also be wearing heels as many women the age of our character would wear them too work.

Hair and makeup

JENNY= her hair will be straightened and left down

Character Movement

Through out the opening sequence JENNY is rushing around everywhere as soon as she wakes up she runs out the room, a lot of her character movement is rushing around and worrying this is because her character is un-organised and clumsy and has a very hectic life so this is shown through her character movement. There are also element of her character movement that just reflect her normal life for instance when she is getting ready she is shown brushing her teeth, putting on her makeup and getting dressed.

CREW LIST

Amy: The actress who will be playing JENNY
Becky: The camerawomen and Director

Alice:  Costume and make-up and also Director
Chloe: Props and also Director

Technical Reece

Unwanted Noise: as our location is set in a house the best time to film is when there is no-one else in as there will be noise that we don’t want.

Animals: In our location a dog and a cat live there so we will have to make sure that they are not in our shots or make noises which we don’t want them to make.

Outside filming:  we will have to be aware when outside of pedestrians as you don’t want them in our shot, traffic isn’t a main problem as we want the footage to look realistic but the noise of the traffic make cause a problem, we will have to try and film in a quiet part of the day.

Weather: For the outside scene the weather will affect when we film as we won’t be able to film when its raining as it could ruin the equipment

Cars in drive: We will also need to make sure that no cars are parked in the drive when we are filming as this will make the shot look bad and we don’t want to show the character as having a car

Storyboard

 





Pre-Production Report

From the start we knew we wanted to do a Rom-com opening sequence, our first idea was a girl with a hectic life and how she finds love and how she juggles it with her life. We had a focus meeting with our teacher miss ship and she said that our ideas were too vague and weren’t detailed enough. She also said that we needed to think more about the age of our actress and the detail of her personality and life situation at the moment. From this meeting we decided our actress was about young 20’s so it targeted teens and young adults. We then established her job which was fashion magazine editor and we planned to portray this through the opening sequence we also showed it through elements of props and costume.

Once the idea for the synopsis and opening sequence detail was finished we went on to our pre-production documentations. We had to make some changes in the shot list when it came to do the story board as we realized that some of the shots and angles we planned to do wouldn’t work. We split the work between the group which had 3 people and if things weren’t right when we went over the work we planned what needed to be changed.