Thursday, 7 January 2010
Questionaire analysis
from the questionnaire results we found out that most people watch romantic comedies. they prefer fun and happiness in a romantic comedy. they also would like to see love and a happy ending. so they prefer lighter romantic comedies than one with serious issues. more people preferred comedy than romance but people still want to see romance. the people we asked prefer to relate to the film more than escape so they can connect and feel empathy and sympathy towards the characters. the audience would like to see a comedian someone who doesn't take themselves seriously. they would then like to see someone who is wild and free knows how to have a good time. most chose not to have the main characters to be closer to their age to relate to then because they may feel they can relate to them if they were older so then it can deal with more serious issues. they may stereotype if younger characters. the people who took the questionnaire preferred to be surprised by the storyline and not have a obvious storyline which is predictable. the most popular romantic comedies is the classic (e.g. pretty woman 1990) which uses more cliche of romantic comedies and has lots of thematic comedies. more people preferred not to have a happy ending, maybe because it is so predictable.
Monday, 7 December 2009
Pitch 1 : Blind Date (main idea)
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Jane is looking for love and can’t seem to find it anywhere; she sets herself up on a dating website hoping to find Mr right on there. She gets a few messages on the website and decides to set up dates with the three men she is most matched to but they are all Mr Wrong. She tells them all to meet her at the same place on different days of the week We get to see through Jane’s view how all the dates go and she narrates us through them with her thoughts, we get to know what she feels about their looks, dress sense, personality and most importantly to Jane the mans sparkling eyes. All of Jane’s dates are flops and after the fourth date she decides she is done with looking for love and sits in the café/bar with her head held in her hands. Just as she says these words the cute new waiter comes over to offer her another drink, he asks Jane why she looks so down and as Jane sits and tells him the chemistry can be clearly seen. When the waiter, Joe, asks Jane on a date the next day Jane thinks he is taking pity on her but as she finds out on the date, they really fall for each other. Jane’s moral is that if you stop looking for love, love will find you.
Friday, 4 December 2009
Box office
Romantic comedies (which comes under comedies on the UK film council table) was the highest in the box office charts in Ireland and UK in 2008. The top scoring films was Sex an the City. Rom - coms made around 222.4 (£ million) in the box office selling tickets. They also released the most films that year out of all the genres showing there is a demand for them in the cinema. Romantic comedies takes up 23.8% of the gross of box office (Purple). Some of the films that take up the top twenty UK films in the UK box office from 1999 - 2008 are romantic comedies e.g. at number 11. Bridget Jones's Diary, 13 Love Actually, 15. Bridget Jones's: The Edge of Reason, 17 Notting Hill. These are the films that if you ask what films are romantic comedies most would say the names of these films. I the All time top 10 independent UK films the highest film was Four Weddings and a Funeral which is a romantic comedy. This shows what a high demand romantic comedies are this also show that romantic comedies do better in the independent film category than at the box office this could be because it is simple and do not have all the dramatic effect of script that Hollywood use and the audience can connect with the film.
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