Sonia, Katie, Beth and Beatrice.We are all going to equally share the load of

planning and producing our opening title sequence.

Graduation Day

Brief and Treatment

Length: 90 seconds - 2 minutes         Deadline: Friday 11th February

Narrative • Equilibrium: different groups of people in high

school, soon to graduate. Rose the ‘geek’, has a crush on Doug, the ‘jock’.

• Problem/Disequilibrium: his friends bet him to ask her out. They start going out and he falls for her. She finds out that it was a bet.

• Action: she ignores him and plans to go with Ching-Lee (another ‘geek’) to the ball. He stays cool as he doesn’t want his friends to know that he has fallen for her.

• Resolution-Partial/Full: He does a speech about her at graduation.

Target Audience

The target audience for our film would be between the ages of 14-16 and the primary

gender would be female however, the secondary audience would be male; this

means ‘Graduation Day’ is aimed at a niche audience. It would appeal to women

because it is a film that would make them feel good after watching it. It would appeal to them as many women like romance but

also a giggle as well as finding love. (Research through questionnaires is to

follow).

Will our narrative subvert this linear

model?• It will go backwards; looking into the

past. However, it will link to Torodov’s theory when going into the main story. Possible scheduling publishing suggestions: may as it is close to when people start to finish university, college and school.

How will you test whether the product is successful?How will you check that it accomplishes the intended

effect?• We would showcase it to our

intended audience then distribute questionnaires for them to answer and give feedback. Identifying constraints: trying to find a room that looks like a dorm room and money if we needed to hire one.

What generic codes and conventions will be

operating in your text?• Typography: Red and pink. These are

stereotypical colours used in Rom-Coms. The pink signifies love and femininity and the red signifies love and passion. Therefore, we have decided to stick to the original colours mainly used in Romantic Comedy films.

• Sound: Song by the Jets to give the upbeat, fun side of the film.

Media Languages

• Our Rom-com for our opening title sequence will show close ups of emotions to portray the love but also laughter too. Also, with the sound of upbeat songs it will liven the whole atmosphere of the movie. The typography will show the love side to it also appealing to the young female audience.

Institution

• We will be using Summit Entertainment because of how is distributed Twilight it will be much more appealing because of what a fantastic film Twilight was. It also appealed to the young female audience, who our are target audience and there is also a sense of Romance in the film. Our production company will be called Pass Out Productions (logo in the making).

Representation and Genre

• Our representations of our characters will be stereotypical as you will be able to notice from out cast list on our next slide.

• We will keep to the typical representations of a Rom-Com with such things like clichés like “boy meets girl” and stereotypes but also humorous characters and actions during the heterosexual love.

Characters

• Rose- Geek, main character.• Doug- Jock, main character.• Shelby- Popular girl.• Chad- Doug’s friend.• Mary- Geek, (Rose’s friend).• Ching-Lee- (Rose’s prom date).•

Settings

• The high school.• Graduation stand.• Rose’s bedroom. • Restaurant.• Park.• Gym class.• College dorm.

Visual Style

• Split screens, typical type of shot used in Romantic Comedies.

• Close ups, used to capture the emotions of love and happiness on people’s faces.

• Establishing shots.• Long shot.• Mid shot.• Extreme close ups.