Colours

I changed the colourings in some shots if they were too dark, or gave jthe wrong effect.


Original Colourings



Levels after edited





After Colourings



One shot I did this with was the ES of the newspaper building. It looked very grey and unappealing, so to change this I increased the exposure, contrast, saturation and added some orange colour to get rid of the blue/grey. As you can see, this makes the building look a lot brighter and has less of a dark atmosphere.

Before

I also did a similar technique to boost the lighting in a few shots, one of which shown below. 



After





Levels after editing



I also incorporated the use of colour into the costume for some scenes. The scene which is supposed to be the most romantic, the male character was wearing a red jumper as it connotes love.

Filming (1)

Filming will take place on Sunday 30th September. It is easier to film at weekends, as the actors and I are in sixth form.

Filming Schedule for Sunday 30th September
11.30am- Drive to Luton- filming Hatter's way in car
11.50am- Stair scene, (the Mall)
12pm- ES shot of Newspaper building
12.20am- Train station scene (Leagrave train station)
1pm- Home/ Garden scenes
1.40pm- Green screen and still car scenes

I plan to film again on Sunday 7th October

Offices

I looked at offices in rom coms to see what locations I could use for that scene.

All of the above are journalism or media production offices shown in films. The journalists offices seem to be portrayed as creative, slightly messy and colourful. Whereas the more executive offices are portrayed as sleek, high end and bigger (left hand column).

However, Morning Glory office is also a bosses office, although from one angle it looks more cluttered than the other. Possibly to reflect how the female is lower down in importance than the male.

On my original storyboard, my office scene was going to be in the Executive bosses office, so therefore would have to be more minimalist.

The following photos are of possible offices I have access too:

 This perhaps has too much technology to be a journalist office, looks more like a desktop publishers workstation, or something similar, however would work if need be.

This looks more like a journalists office, however the location I need is the executives office, which would be more sleek

With some small props and set dressing, this would look like an excutives office as it is minimalist, but also, the computer is a mac, which are known for being expensive.


One problem with all these locations, is that the desk is fixed to a wall, so you cannot have one person sitting either side of it, like you would traditionally. But I don't see this as much of a problem

Props

As we are filming on location for all the shots (except green screen scenes) the background props will come with the sets.

Crutches

The main prop I need is crutches for the male, as these are central to the storyline. I have got the crutches from a friend of mine, who no longer needs them, yet still keeps them in her house, therefore lending them out is not an inconvenience to her, I have hold of them for the entirety of filming.

Green Screen
I own a green screen, so using this isn't a problem.

Car
 I have access to three cars,
Kia Sorento;
Citron C3;
Vauxhall Corsa

A young journalist would have a small car and therefore rules out the Kia as that is a 4x4. Therefore I didn't mind which of the other two cars I use, as long as I use the same one throughout. So I decided to use the Corsa as that is a little bigger and looks a more masculine and as the lead female isn't very stereotypical and so a slightly less feminine car would suit her.

Vauxhall Corsa that I am using to film

Costumes

  Below are journalist characters from rom-coms to show their costumes

27 Dresses (2007, dir. Anne Fletcher)

Runaway Bride (1999, dir. Garry Marshall)

  

The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)

 

Down with Love (1993, dir. Peyton Reed)

From this I have deducted this males wear a casual suit, so they stil look smart, but not too smart for everyday tasks. It also depends on the loction, how smart the suit is, for example: in Runaway Bride; there are at a baseball game and Richard Gere's costume is much less formal than any of the others. In the Down with Love still, thery are at a scoial event and their costumes are the most formal. As there are no formal scenes in my trailer, I think a scruffy suit similar to James Marsden's in 27 Dresses (above left) will be appropriate  as the character has a rather laid back approach to his job and this would reflect that.

However, C.C Baxter from The apartment (left) is an insurance salesmen, but he has a similar costume to the male journalists and shows how the formality of costume can be lowered when the character is at home.

He's Just Not That Into You ( 2009 dir. Ken Kwapis )

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel )

Female costumes are more varied, and are often unstereotypical ones. Bridget Jones,

The Devil wears Prada and Confessions of a Shopaholic- these three films, the lead females costume is important to the narrative and that leads to a unstereotypical outfit. Mostly this is that journalist are known to have style, but this individual doesn't, but in the case of Confessions of a Shopaholic, Rebecca just has an eccentric fashion sense.

The stereotypical iomage of jounralist is a blouse and pencil skirt or a smart dress. But as in my trailer, the female isn't working in an office, she wouldn't have to look as smart as these in every scene, but would still remain smart. As the storyline progresses the formality of the costumes could lower as the two characters become more comfortable in each others presence.



How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days (2003, dir. Donald Petrie)

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009, dir. P.J Hogan)





Bridget Jones's Diary (2001, dir. Sharon Macguire)

The females boss which features in the trailer would wear a full suit as they are in an office environment for that scene and as the boss of a company would be the most formal of the workplace.

Also, a friend of the females features in the trailer, she would wear similar clothing to the lead character. However, as they are in a parkland at the time, they could both be wearing running clothes, which reinforces the stereotype of women caring about their health and appearance.

Characters

The characteristics of each of the two main characters are:

Female:

• Domineering
• Head strong
• Attractive
• Successful
• Workaholic
• Judgemental

Male:

• Attractive
• Annoying
• Outgoing
• Successful
• Laid back

After deciding these characteristics, I begun thinking of actors as I had already asked my peers who were comfortable to act and be filmed. I had four close friends who had offered to be in the trailer, 2 females and two males. One pair had other commitments and were unavailable to film and contact on several occasions. So I chose the other pair, who go to my school, so were considerably easier to contact.

Boss:

• Male

• Same age as other characters

• look slightly more experianced

1 female extra, best friend of lead
Stereotypical females to emphasize the unstereotypicalness of the lead female.

Change of Opening.

I have decided for the first scene to no use the one places in the school as the filming for this would be too complicated to organise (extra actors and finding the best time to shoot) and I feel this scene doesn't link to rest of the trailer. So the opening scene will be an estasblishing shot of a major road, and then cut to the inside of the car with the two actors having a conversation similar to

M: You know, not all men are horrible
F: I know not all men are horrible, but you are, and I'm stuck with you.

here, non-diegetic music will start and the Production and distribution company names will appear on a background of the major road.