Movie Convention Research: Five Feet Apart

CAMS • Voice over • Tracking shot • POV shot • Eye level • Pan • Zoom • Close up • Medium shot • Long shot • Two shot • Over the shoulder • Soundtrack • Dialogue • Incidental music Editing • Cross cutting • Cutaway • Jump cut • Action match CLAMPS • Hospital clothing • Natural lighting • SFX make up for injuries/disease • Medical props • Hospital set/outside set Likes • The voice over is actually done well in the film and fits well with what’s going on • The pan and tracking shots help establish what is being discussed a scene • The dialogue isn’t cheesy and does a good job conveying the emotions of the characters • The set looks very realistic • The make-up is really well done and looks realistic Dislikes • Some of the soundtrack is outdated and could fit better with what is going on in the scene • Some of the wider shots might’ve been better as closer shots

Movie Convention Research: The Kissing Booth

 

CAMS • Voice over • Flashback • Jump cut • Eye level shot • Long shot • Two shot • Three shot • Over the shoulder • Diegetic sound • Dialogue • Soundtrack • Incidental music Editing • Action match • Eyeline match CLAMPS • Current teenage clothing • (bad) Dramatic acting • Suitable set • Natural lighting Like • Eye level shot because it helps the audience understand what the character is looking at • Soundtrack because it helps the audience get a vibe of what they are watching • Dialogue because it helps convey added knowledge to a scene • Incidental music because it provides a noticeable mood shit from one scene to another • The costumes the fit current times help the audience understand when the movie takes place, along with help from the setting of the movie Dislikes • Dramatic acting is over the top and sometimes doesn’t fit the scene, and if it does fit, is overall too fake • Voice over is cheesy and could’ve been done better • The clothing did help covey the time period but they were overall things most real teenagers wouldn’t wear

Going With a Coming of Age Film

 After much deliberation between the two of us we have decided to go with a coming of age movie. There were a couple reasons as to why we thought this would work the best. The first one thing reason is that we can use younger actors without having to make them seem older. Coming of age movies are by definition movies about people teens growing up and the lessons they learn from that. So instead of having all of our teenage friends play adults, it’s much easier for us to play teenagers since that’s our actual age. The second reason is that it matched our pitch. Just a reminder out pitch is about two high schoolers who throw the party of the year but when they wake up the next morning they realize the entire house was robbed. Since the setting is at Highschool party it and the two younger characters are going to learn some valuable lessons from their actions, this genre seemed to fit perfectly. Our third main reason for choosing a coming of age movie is the simplicity of them. Unlike science fiction movies, action movies or horror movies, coming of age stories are very practical with their story telling. What this means is that we don’t have to put any extra effort into special effects that we wouldn’t even know where to start with. Ultimately keeping it simple was the best way to put our time into more important things like the planning and filming of the movie. And lastly my partner and I love coming of age movies. And this is especially true as we hit the age where most of the characters in the story are. Movies like Superbad and Project X inspired us a lot when we were thinking about ideas and both of these movies are coming of age films. We also had some issues with the other genres. We had an idea of having the same plot as our pitch from a revere perspective where two characters were pulling a heist at someone’s house and would have obviously used a heist movie. But we didn’t think we could set up the genre well in the first two minutes because movies never get to the heist until at earliest the second act.  And lastly we almost went with a romantic comedy as our genre with the same plot as our coming to age film but our friend we convinced to be a co star is a male. So seeing how the two male co stars were both heterosexual, it would have been hard for them to have any on screen chemistry. 

Genre Research: Rom Coms

 

CAMS

• Over the shoulder
• Two shots
• Close ups
• Extreme long/Establishing shots
• Medium shots
• Point of view
• Single
• Panning
• Eye level

 

CLAMPS

• Costumes relating to time period of movie
• Natural lighting
• Make up that matches time period
• Props that fit the time period
• Setting relating to time period

·       (if the movie is a period piece, the props, costumes, and make up would reflect this. The same goes for if it takes place in current times.)

Editing

• Fade ins/outs
• Eyeline match
• Zoom
• Split screen

 

Sound

• Dialogue
• Voice over
• Score—love songs, sad songs
• Incidental music
• Diegetic sound

 

Examples

• Stars Fell on Alabama
• Locked Down
• To all the Boy: Always and Forever
• The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
• The Kissing Booth 3

 

Positive Elements

• When done right, dialogue provides so much to a romantic comedy.
• Eyeline matches along with close up shots convey emotion really well.
• Two shots help you better visualize the couple
• Over the shoulder help you bounce back and forth during a conversation when used in that manner
• Scores always add so much to a film
• Establishing shots help the audience visualize where the scene will be taking place

 

Negative Elements

• When the movie takes place in current time, the outfits usually don’t look like actually people wear and are unrealistic.
• Voice overs are cheesy.
• Fade ins/outs are overused.
  
  
  

Genre Research: Coming of Age Films

 CAMS

• Establishing Shots

• Two shots, Three shots, etc. depending on how many main characters are present in a scene

• Over the shoulder shots

• POV shots

CLAMPS

• Young actors

• Casual everyday teen outfits

• Setting could be at school and/or a party

• Props include backpacks 

Editing

• Jump Cuts

• Eye-Line Match

• Split Screen

Sound

• Songs listened to by the youth of the era the film is set in

• Ambient sound of other conversations

• Dialogue between main characters

Examples

• Good Boys

• Blockers

• Love Simon

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Long Haul

• The Hate you give

Positive Elements

• If portrayed correctly, the actors can really show the characters development which is the main purpose for coming of age films

• Catchy Music typically used for sound track

• The setting, costumes, and props can create a lot of relatability with younger audiences.

Negative Elements

• Often comes off as unrealistic when adult film makers try to recreate high school

• Most young actors either aren't as good or older actors seem to old for a character in high school

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Genre Research: Heist Movies

 Heist Movie

CAMS

• Tracking Shot

• Establishing Shots

• POV shots

• Close-up

CLAMPS

• Props could be the item being heisted

• Actors typically dressed up nice

• Setting can be a bank or museum

• Also setting can be a planning bunker

Editing

• Action Match

• Jump Cuts

• Split Screen

Sound

• The score is typically creates suspense

• Sound Motif

Examples

• Oceans 8

• Baby Driver

• Army of the Dead

• Cheery

• Hobbs and Shaw

Positive Elements

• When done right the score can have the audience at the edge of their seat

• The constant twists keep the audience engaged

• Usually incorporates comedy in the movie

Negative Elements

• Many times is very predictable

• Hard to follow many characters when they each have their own plot.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Our Pitch

   Pitch 1:

• The party of the century turns into the biggest mystery when the two who threw it can’t remember a thing in the morning...

We will need to get a decent amount of background characters for it to look like a party. We will have to move everything for one of the scenes to make it look like everything went missing. We’ll cut music when the scene transitions from the party to the next day. We will have some of the names be labels on the drinks. Well have one of the into the pool and the camera followed them into the water and it would show one of the names. We’ll do about 30 seconds intro, a minute of party footage, and 30 seconds with the next day roughly, subject to change. It will be filmed like a documentary by the two people throwing the party, as well as a regular movie. 

 

Pitch 2: 

• When a boy wakes up 70 years in the past with no memory of how she got here, how will she ever get home. 

With this pitch, our biggest difficulty will be creating scenery to match the past. It would also require a bunch of background characters. We wouldn’t have the costumes or the props to make it work. It would be an interesting option to pursue though. We would have to spend a lot of money t make this work, and even them, it will be very difficult. We could maybe change how far back she goes, but by then it wouldn’t really be drastic enough for someone to care enough to watch the movie. All in all, the cons out way the pros and it will be two difficult to do this pitch idea. 

 

Overall we are going to go with pitch one.