2. Plot:
 Our plot is very typical of the rom-com’s as conventionally this
genre uses a meet-cue; which is when the two characters who
will eventually fall in love meet. This is shown in our film opening
at the end of the production.
 Openings to romantic-comedies also give the audience an initial
insight into the personalities and life’s of the main characters; to
get them to decide whether they like the characters and get
them engaged in the rest of the film. I think our product
conformed to this convention when it shows the characters lying
about themselves, juxtaposed with shots of their reality. This
also added humour to the opening.
 However, our production challenged this convention too as we
didn’t set it in the characters own homes. We did this as it meant
the audience didn’t learn too much about the characters through
the mise-en-scene and more from the acting and plot.
 The production also challenges forms and conventions as the
plot revolves around social-networking and meeting through the
internet. We did this is as it provides a modern take on an old
genre. However, this plot is also similar to ‘A Cinderella Story’.

3. Mise-en-scene:
 Setting: this production subverts the conventionally setting used in this genre
as usually openings are set in the characters personal home, workplace or
urban cities. Our production challenges this convention as it uses the
characters school as the setting, we did this to try and attract the school-aged
audience more, as well as the older demographic.
 Costume/makeup: we wanted to break the stereotypical representation of
women when it came to costume, therefore our female character is dressed in
jeans and not a dress which would perhaps be expected in this genre. This
presents her as less girlie than would be expected and may make her seem
less vulnerable. She also has natural makeup as it presents her as innocent
and sweet, this is a conventional representation of women in this genre film.
Our lead male character is dressed in jeans, with a white top, as well as a black
coat. The male is in a fairly typical costume for this genre and we tried to
present him as a stereotypical character.
 Props: both characters used a laptop in our production as our plot was around
online dating. This broke away from the conventions of romantic-comedies as
usually characters in this genre meet in more of a traditional way, for example
in a restaurant.

4. Characters:
 We decided to cast our actor for our lead female
character ‘Rachel’ because her appearance is similar
to other characters in existing romantic-comedies
such as Anne Hathaway. She has a natural/pretty
looking face and this can make her easily relatable to
by our target audience, this is because she is a
realistic representation of a student.
 If we had used actors who were an un-realistic
representation of the general population this would
have subverted from the conventions of romantic
comedies, as films in this genre are usually very easily
relatable to from the audience’s perspective.

5.  Our male character was chosen because he is also
a realistic representation of a male student and we
wanted our characters to be realistic. This
character could be compared to a younger version
of Adam Sandler because he usually plays roles of
males who have misfortune in their life's and is
usually where the comedy in films he stars in
comes from. This is similar to our male character,
Oliver, because he is also shown to be unlucky.

6. Camerawork:
 our establishing shot was a long shot used to set
the scene and introduce the first characters
apperance.
 an over the shoulder, high angle shot was used
when the female character was on her laptop, this
gave the opportunity to see what she was doing.
 A cut in shot was juxtaposed with this to show her
typing again.
 a close up was used when the characters began
talking to somebody online. This gives the
audience more of a personal view and insight of
the characters.

7.  we used a long shot to show the male’s bottom
half of his body walking out the building to show
the audience that he was leaving and build
suspense that he was meeting Rachel.
 as the characters were approaching each other we
used point of view shots from both characters
perspective to make it appear that they were
meeting each other and allow the audience to
finally get a full view of the characters.
 our production ended with a panning shot up to
the sky to have our film title appear on the screen,
we did this because we though it had romantic
connotations and could suggest that the characters
may feel like giving up.

8. Editing:
 We used iMovie to edit our shots together.
 The editing of our opening is fairly slowly paced to relate to the conventions of
this film genre, this also doesn’t create a sense of suspense for the audience
when they are watching the movie and creates a relaxed atmosphere.
 We cross cut between each characters whilst they were talking online and as
they were walking out of the building to meet someone. This gave the
impression that they were talking to one another and built a romantic tension
between them both.
 ellipsis's were also used to show time moving forward as the characters were
meeting and make it more excitiing.

9. Soundtrack:
 When the opening first starts a slow, acoustic song begins to play, this sets
the mood and creates a romantic atmosphere from the very beginning.
We chose to use this music as it is conventional to romantic-comedies.
 The music then stops and a voiceover begins, from the perspective of
both characters. Voiceovers are a convention in this genre and I found it in
a few existing products when I was doing my initial research. The
voiceover in this production helps to add a sense of humour to the
opening as well as gaining information about the characters trough the
things they tell the other about themselves.
 Another acoustic song then plays as the characters leave the building, this
helps add suspense and a romantic build up, whilst the audience think
that the characters will meet. It stops when the camera pans up to show
the film title.

10. Titles:
 The titles in our production follow the conventional order for film titles with
the Directors name appearing last and main characters appearing first.
 Each title stays on the screen for approximately 3 seconds which further
complies with film conventions.
 The font and colour of our titles is very soft and not too harsh which is what I
found when analysing other film opening titles in this genre. If we had used a
harsh font and colour for our titles this would have made our production steer
away from the rom-com genre and may have presented the idea that it was in
the horror genre.