1. Our Film Concept
Jessie & Molly

2. Main Idea- ‘The Story of Us
Our chosen film genre is Romantic Comedy.
The main storyline follows a teenage couple through their
relationship.
It’s a simple concept but the way in which we will present it
will be lighthearted with an artistic edge.
The opening itself will be a tracking shot of the Female
Character, Katy, as she sorts through some books in her
room. While this is going on there will be credits showing
the Film Company Names. Katy will then drop a book and
pick it up to find a scrapbook she made of her and the Male
Character, Luke’s relationship. She turns it over to reveal
the front cover which displays the film title, The Story Of
Us. She then opens it and reminisces about their
relationship by looking through the pages.

3. Blue Valentine
Photograph Compilation Inspiration Legally Blonde 2
Scrapbook Inspiration
(500) Days of Summer
Concept Inspiration
Inspiration

4. Inspiration…
Blue valentine: We got our Idea of compilation of photos
from the end credits of Blue Valentine. We saw this and
realized that we wanted to portray our couple’s relationship
similarly to how the couple in the photos is portrayed.
Legally Blonde 2 was our inspiration to include a
scrapbook and possible voiceover in our opening. The
scrapbook included in Legally Blonde 2 tells the story of
the previous film in the series. The idea of informing the
audience of past events was grasped from this.
500 Days of summer was our concept inspiration because
although it is not about a typical ‘fairytale’ storyline, it still is
portrayed in a lighthearted and artistic way that captures
the hearts of the audience.

5. Target Audience
Our Target Audience will be (predominantly female)
teenagers from the ages of 12. Although research
shows that the audience for Romantic Comedies
ranges greatly in age, our aim of the film would be to
produce something that teenagers can relate to and
enjoy because they understand and have a
significant connection to. Our choices of Actors,
costumes, location and music reflect this.
We, as teenage girls, also fit into the specific target
audience, which gives us and advantage in that we
ourselves will enjoy it!

6. The Actors
Dex Elkington & Amelia Walker
We chose these two students to be our characters because they both have
individual quirky styles, which ties in with the concept of our film. They also have
good acting abilities and confidence in front of the camera as well as being good
friends, making their chemistry realistic.
For costumes, our actors will wear their own clothes because they come across
as having the style that our costumes would be modeled around. For the outside
scenes, we will dress our actors appropriately with their own autumn clothes and
for the bedroom scenes we have asked them to bring their pajamas!

7. Location/ Style of Characters
Cafe
Park
All of our chosen locations are ‘natural’
places for a teenage couple to be to
create a sense of realism in the film. The
couples photographed look similar to the
way we will stage our shots on our Bedroom
locations. We will use a park in Wroxton
(which we need no permission for), my
bedroom and my local café- which we
need permission to film in.

8. Lighting & Sound
For lighting, we will shoot mainly outside and in the daytime, where
the light will be naturally good. We are aware that we cannot depend
on the weather, so our shooting will revolve around whether the
conditions are right for filming or not; on rainy days, we will shoot the
inside scenes in the café and bedroom.
On the inside scenes, although the room we will be shooting in will
have a big window to provide a lot of natural light, however I am sure
we will need extra lighting, which we will be able to provide lamps for.
We have chosen to use a voiceover and music playing with the clips,
so we will not need to worry about background noise in the clips. This
is very convenient because in the past we had a lot of problems with
background noise drowning out the dialogue. We have done research
into what music to include, and have experimented making our own
music with ‘Soundtrack Pro’ as well as finding un-copyrighted music
clips to include to enhance the bright, romantic and quirky tone of the
opening.

9. Font Style
We plan to use a font that looks as if it has either been
written, typed or printed, to tie in with the scrapbook theme.
As well as the film titles, there will be other text appearing
in the scrapbook, the font of which also needs to be
considered.
We really like these fonts because of their
‘thrown together’ quality that is common for a
teenager to create and like. The quirkiness is
essential as an image we want our film opening
to portray.