The Final Idea

The final storyline we decided to go with was idea four, out of our six initial ideas.  As a group we deliberated that this idea considered an entertaining storyline for our target audience; young adults. Our idea provides an unrealistic, but mature plot which adds to the idea of a comical genre. This is an example of the type of film our audience would find comical throughout. The film’s title sequence will uses typical conventions of a comedy film. For example, a possible idea of a title sequence could include: The film begins by setting the scene ‘London, united Kingdom’; a preview of writing will inform the audience of the location and the year. This will create understanding of where the film is situated and where the action will take place. The sequence will include a strong sense of Mise-en scene, which will be integrated throughout the title sequence.

 The typical conventions of a comedy genre include: High key lighting, as it emphasises the characters emotions and feeling. It will be used throughout the title sequence to represent the genre of the film; a family comedy aimed particular at young adults. This could also be portrayed through the use of vivid colours and family orientated locations. For example a family home, or work place.

Another possible convention our group could incorporate in our title sequence is:  on-screen sound. Dialect could be immediately preformed by the characters. This would be effective for this particular genre because a sense of laughter will be created by the humorous conversation displayed.  For example the main character, James and his friends or family.
The brief of our selected storyline consist of our main character James (MC Don), a man around the age of 25; who desires to fulfil his lifelong dreams of becoming a famous, international recording artist. James is particularly aiming to achieve his world wide name throughout the hip-hop industry. He disarmingly travels to Hollywood to have a meeting with a top record deal, the company denies James of any potential or talent and so he is put down miserably.

  James continues on his travels home, back to the UK after being turned down and has what he explains as a 'massive breakdown'. However comically, his breakdown only lasts an hour and then he soon gets back on his feet trying to achieve his dreams alone and making it broad for others. We chose this story as our final idea as we thought we could expand on a great comical story line while including several conventions of a typical comedy film.