Chick Flick films

We can see from these posters that the relationships that women have with other female friends and family will be important, as are the sexual/ romantic relationships that they have with men.

The film 'It's Complicated' features main characters who are all middle-aged, suggesting that the audience for this feature will be older females and women of the same age as the characters, because they may be able to relate to the situations that the lead female has found herself in.

The 'Dreamgirls' poster features the three main characters, letting the audience know that the relationships the females have with each other are going to feature heavily in this film.

The costume, hair and make up for Hairspray is very bright, loud and vivid; letting the audience know what's in store.

In the Moulin Rouge poster we can see that the red and the blues are used and have been edited to make the poster appear very dreamy, soft and romantic.

Just as we have in our film, the makers of Pretty Woman also named their film after the song ('Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison) that is featured in it.

Target Audience for 'Chick Flicks'

This is what the questionnaire that we gave out to females of a range of ages, asking them to list their: likes, dislikes, interests, look up to, ambitions, film consumer habits, and musical preferences.

We found that:

• 35% of women we asked like to watch romantic comedies

48% of women we asked like to watch comedies

• 29% of women we asked like to watch horror/ thrillers

0% of women we asked said they like to watch war films

13% of women we asked like to watch action films

• 5% of women we asked like to watch science fiction films

Women like comedies because they like a release from their highly pressured lives, and similarly, they like to watch horror/ thrillers because they like to be scared, because this gives them an escape from their reality.

No women said they liked to watch war films, because this genre is still considered a male genre. The military is still mostly made up of men, because women are not permitted to serve on the front line.

Health and Safety

The sequence takes place in a bedroom, and therefore we had to make sure that all wires for objects such as stereos/ hair straighteners/ chargers were put out of the way of the people in the room, to ensure that they would not trip and injure themselves.

Shooting Schedule

Due to our shots all taking place in the same area during our opening sequence, we were able to shoot everything on the same day- 20th February 2011.

Shooting order:

Props- toys, jewellery, shoes, clothes, CDs/DVDs/ bags

Phone alarm

Isla in bed sequence

Isla coming towards camera sequence

Isla going to phone

Isla texting

Isla leaving room

Isla entering room

Isla putting on make-up sequence

Isla leaving room for final time

Storyboards

We changed the exterior location from the car park, to the student entrance of the school, this is so it would be easier to keep the actors and crew safe, and also the setting of the side of the school is more ideal for Isla's entrance because it is more secluded and less of a disruption.

Continuity test

This is our continuity test, which consists of a person entering a room through a door, crossing the room and sitting down opposite another person, then having a conversation.

It was a more difficult task than expected, as we storyboarded the scene, even though it's a simple scene, we learnt that everything takes planning. This affected us when we came to film the scene, because we had not written a script, we made up what to say on the spot, so when we filmed it again from different angles, we had forgotten most of what we said, and the way in which we said it. This made the continuity difficult to keep, because some people were nervous in front of the camera because we had nothing planned to talk about.

It was a good learning experience, because we realised that we have to plan everything that happens in a scene, from the way its filmed to what is actually filmed.

Costume and props ideas

These are the sketches I made for the costume and props of the love interest 'Billy' in our film, 'My Next Class is Biology'

This character is supposed to be trendy in the way that he dresses, and his personality. He wants to be a photographer, and he skateboards to get to and from places instead of using a bus or walking.

Here is the rear- view of the costume, his denim jeans would be a little baggy, but not so much so that his underwear is on show.

The idea is that he is wearing a jacket over a t-shirt, with jeans which are tighter around the the shins and ankles, and more baggy around the waist.

Some of his props include a back pack because he is at school, with a pair of converse trainers.

We will probably put a few books in the bag so that it looks like he is carrying schoolwork and equipment.

Billy is a photographer, so he will be wearing a big professional camera around his neck, because the character likes to take pictures wherever he goes.