Our Film Synopsis - Mixed up

Our Film Synopsis

I did this film synopsis as it makes our final idea clear for the overall film and sets the scene and who the characters are.

I have learnt from this exercise as i now know how to write a film synopsis and it is for my own film idea.

Mixed up 

Jenny and Alex meet at a club. The people they are both with (there best friends), are extremely drunk and are very embarrassing. The next day at work, Alex gets a promotion and unknown to him, he becomes Jenny’s assistant.

Jenny often visits her local book shop and the audience gets to know the book shop owner. By becoming Jenny’s assistant, Alex has to accompany Jenny on every business trip she goes on. Jenny goes on a business trip to Oxford, (coincidently this is where she was brought up) so instead of staying in a hotel, Jenny and Alex stay at Jenny’s parents house. Alex meets all of Jenny’s family, including her sister, brother and cousin. Alex gets on very well with Jenny’s sister (Danielle) and cousin (Katelyn).

Alex and Jenny both organise a wedding. The audience assumes it is Alex and Jenny’s wedding. Jenny and Alex meet up and talk about a special place they can meet on the same day at the same time every year. But the last shot shows Jenny and the book shop owner getting married and Alex and Katelyn getting married.

Practice Rom-Com Synopsis - 50 first dates

Film Synopsis

I did this film synopsis because it is in the genre that i have chosen and it gave me ideas to start thinking about my own Rom-Com and also made it clear the sort of detail the storyline has to be in for my own film.

This exercise helped me think of my own ideas and also gave me experience in writing film synopsis's for Rom-Coms. In addition, there are many things that i can link into my own film like little details and the conventions that goes along with them.  

50 First Dates

Both characters meet in a café; they agree to meet each other the next day in the same café. The next day, the girl (Lucy) claims not to know who the man (Henry) is. The owner of the café then pulls Henry aside to tell him that Lucy suffers from short term memory loss and cannot remember anything from the day before. She cannot remember her accident and each day her family rein act the day of her accident to stop Lucy from going through the pain of not remembering anything from the past year.  Henry realises that he is falling in love with Lucy so every day he try’s to find a way of meeting her in hope that she will retain her memories. One day she hears that Henry had cancelled his plans to go to the Antarctic which eh had been saving for, for 10 years, because of this she ends the relationship and commits herself to go to a specialised unit in hospital.  As Henry was leaving to go to Antarctica he remembered Lucy, he went to the hospital to see her and she still says that she doesn’t know who he is but had a dream about him last night, this was because of all the paintings she had made of him. She believes she remembers him because she is in love and therefore they restart their relationship. At the end of the film, Lucy wakes up (several years later) with a video tape playing, reading “Good Morning, Lucy”. The tape explains everything about her accident and shows footage of Henry and Lucy’s wedding. Lucy cries. Lucy comes out of her room and onto the deck of the boat was Henry, her father and her young daughter sailing through the Arctic.

Regulatory Research and Generic Conventions research

Generic Conventions research Introduction...

Regulatory Research

The BBFC Guidelines relate to film:

-          The BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification and they decide what classification films are put under. The classifications are U, PG, 12A, 12, 15, 18, 18R.

-          The main issues concerning sex, drugs, language and violence is that some films may want a specific classification but then it may have too many things in that are too much for the classification they want. There are also problems when people don’t abide by the rules and can go against the law that has been put in place.

-          I think the certification my film will be is a 15

-          The 15 certification cannot be watched by a person younger than 15 years old.

-           The things that a 15 must NOT include are the film as a whole must not have discriminatory language or behaviour.

-          Drug taking is allowed to be shown, but the film as whole must not promote drugs use of any kind.

-          Horror is also aloud but must not be sexualised; dangerous behaviour (hanging, self-harming etc.) is not to be dwelled on so it cannot be copied.

-          Strong language is permitted with works such as the F*** but the word C*** would probably not be accepted except in certain context.

-          Nudity may be allowed in sexual context without it being too graphic and nudity with a sexual context is allowed.

-          Sex is permitted, but not in great detail. In addition, strong sexual references (verbal) are permitted, as long as they are not extremely strong.

-          No theme is permitted unless it is suitable for 15 year olds.

-          Violence can be strong but it cannot dwell on the person inflicting the pain.  

-          This will not affect our film as we don’t have anything that is not aloud.

-          Reading these guidelines really helped me thing about what we could have as I was nervous about showing some nudity but as it is not in a sexual nature it is aloud. Finally I have learnt that strong language is aloud but I have learnt that certain words are not permitted.

This is the first thing that i was asked to do to create this blog and research into my chosen genre of film. I discover a lot about the genres that I didn't know as there are many different types of Rom-Coms and Sports comedies.


The main focus of this exercise was Rom-Coms as this is our final chosen genre and Sports comedy is our back up idea. I researched this to help me focus on the specific genre and the character, camera shots etc. that come along with them.


I didn't realise that there is actually a lot of dialogue in Rom-Coms than in other films, therefore meaning that there are many over the shoulder shots. As well as this, i found that in sports comedies there are a lot of panning shots of the sporting action (mainly when people are running across a sports pitch. The setting for a Rom-Com is that they are mainly set in a city so this is very important that when we start filming that we should try to create a city like background. However, in Sports Comedies they are mainly set in schools so this again important to take into consideration when we begin to film.    
  
                                                        

I have done Sports comedy conventions as this is our back up idea for the filming, just in case the Rom-Com doesn't work.

Conventions of a Sports Comedy...

The following are a list of conventions that I have discovered about the Sports comedy genre:

       • Male lead

       • Has a sport in it.

       • Person that is weak at the sport that then gets better.

       • Bad character- good at the chosen sport and are mean to the weaker character.

       • Coach- comic or moral character.

       • Violence.

       • Cheerleaders.

       • Jocks

       • Most of the time set in a school, very stereotypical.

Conventions of a Rom-Com

The following are a list of conventions that I have discovered about the romantic comedy genre:

• man and women meet in a awkward/funny circumstances
• argument – couple separate
• happy ending
• audience like the main characters, down to earth and likeable personality
• friends or family of main characters will be funny
• lighting will be bright to reflect the tone/mood of the film
• usually set in big cities e.g. London, New York
• pop, recognisable songs played throughout
• flowery, heart shaped bubble writing for credits
• normal clothes to represent ‘normal/typical’ people