Main Post 4- Group Meeting

GENRE DICSUSSION

2:50- Casey: I think either a comedy, action or rom-com would work well.

2:50 Tom: Yes, they would work best, and a comedy would be fun to produce.

2:51 Fathema: Its easier to do comedy so I agree.

2:51 Casey: it might be hard to get the comedy element across though..

2:52 Tom: comedy opening sequences aren’t always funny though, the opening sequence just needs to give the impression that the film will be funny, like Napoleon Dynamite.

2:54 Tom: I’ve got an idea of what we can actually do, when we’re filming, the way we’re presenting could be like a picture book.. Like with the pages showing the picture and the credits to set the scene.

2:55 Fathema: is that going to be ‘comedy’ though?

2:56 Tom: it’s different.

2:56 Casey: I think a Rom-Com might be easier to do, but if we did do a comedy I think we’d have to base it on something like ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,’ a teen-comedy.

2:56 Tom: the opening sequence did make the film look like it was going to be a comedy.

2:56: Casey: a comedy sequence would be do-able for us as well as it can be basic but also look really creative, unlike an action genre for example which would need lots of explosions and fast paced/ fancy/ high budget editing.

Tom: Comedy sequences incorporate the use of bright colours into it so it catches the audiences’ eye.

Fathema: Comedy films are often aimed at a family audience, so basing it in a school is something they could relate to.

Tom: Filming it in school would be easy and has a lot of potential. We can relate to it too.

Casey: I found a graph for one of the researching posts, which showed that last year the most popular film genre was comedy with 22%, so comedy is definitely a popular genre.

Fathema: And the results from the questionnaires suggested that comedy was the most popular/ most enjoyable genre too.

Tom: And it was also suggested that the audience wants to see more of them.

2:57: We all agreed on the concept of having a comedy genre opening sequence that would be filmed in the school.

PLOT DISCUSSION AND BASIC OPENING SEQUENCE DISCRIPTION.
School based.

Casey: who’s the main character going to be? He/ she should probably be a stereotyped character.

Tom: We could Americanize it a bit

Casey: A typical comedy is more likely to be a ‘nerdy’ character

Fathema: Like with glasses on, trousers done up high, ect.

Casey: there should be a bully as well.

Tom: in the opening sequence, we need to establish the setting.

This is our final sequence idea in a nutshell; in brackets are the names of the people of who came up with what.
(Casey) Nerdy character walking around with credits displayed over the top, name of film displayed in a 'doodle' style on a book. (Fathema) The main character will be holding books, wearing glasses, very stereotypical, and (Tom) narration over the top, something like (Tom) “this is the story of how I went from this..”(Casey) cut scene to a comical ‘fail’, “to the most popular girl in school. (Casey)” (Tom) Bell ring at the end of the sequence.