Our film @ccidentally in Love is a romantic comedy. Romantic comedies are movies with light-hearted, humorous dramatic stories centred on romantic ideals such as a "true love" or the "perfect couple." Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films.
One of the conventions of romantic comedy films is the encounter of two partners in unusual or comic circumstances, known as the 'meet cute' situation. In our film we have developed quite an individual 'meet cute' situation where they meet over the Internet by chance after Rob's friend makes him an account. Therefore when meeting each other in really life it leads to quite comic circumstances in order to cover up the lies they have told each other.
The film has morals and ideologies, strong elements of a narrative, that believe in true love and having faith that love will conquer all. This is shown as, stereotypically, the characters have to fight to make sure their relationship works out. It all works out in the end and, of course, there is a happy ending.
Our text as a trailer has a strong sense of narrative with the beginning making it very obvious the two characters meet on the internet, showing them both with their laptops and intertexuality of the websites help move the narrative along. Also well as this the voice over narration from the main character, Lucy, helped introduce the audience to her feelings about the character Ben. The dialogue gave a chance to introduce both her friends but also move the pitch along, letting Lucy explain to the audience what was going on through the use of making her chat to her friends.
After this the montage of different shots of things like dates and moments in the film showing different emotions, lets the audience know quickly the kinds of things that happens in this film. Obviously as it's just a trailer there is a bit of a broken narrative, we cannot unravel the whole film into two minutes. Therefore little shots showing contrasting scenes are nice as they let the audience know what's in store. As well as this the settings of a lot of the scenes are outside, giving an autunmy feel and setting the mis en scene for the film as well. The shots inside let the audience know that the film has different settings too.
The typical structure of a Rom Com is often to have something funny at the end of the trailer to end it on a high and make it memorable. We at first had a shot of Lucy walking into a glass door, however this looked unprofessional so we chose to use a clip of her dancing. This is great as it ends the trailer nicely and lets the audience know that feel good things happen in this film, possibly pulling them into wanting to know more about the narrative.
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