Conventions

(Hassan)

In most movies nothing much happens in a dramatic sense in an opening sequence. However what does happen is that they establish main characters, most of the time that character being the main protagonist. What opening sequences also do is set up a certain amount of enigma. They work by drawing in viewers by having something quite interesting happen and only showing snippets of the main characters to tease the viewers into wanting to watch on.

We intend to use movies such as Its a Boy Girl Thing, 10 Things I Hate About You, Mean Girls and others as inspirations to our project. We're going to show the two main characters getting ready for college the next day whilst showing their differences of personality with the twist that they have an internet relationship despite hating each other in person.

Conventions

The genre of our movie is a teen comedy romance. The characters typically found in these genres are stereotypes of teenagers. Such as having the "jock", the "geek", the "popular girl" among others. Settings include high schools or colleges, domestic spaces such as bedrooms, hang out spots such as cafes and party spots which are usually houses, clubs or in the high school (prom). Plots usually include a romance between a two characters who usually are not thought of as compatible due to their stereotypes given to them. Props used are ones that people would find normal to teenage life, such as mobiles, computers and props you'd normally find in a school or college. Language is normally slang and very informal with some swears also included into it.

We will pretty much totally stick to the conventions given above. The reason we are sticking with the normal conventions is that the conventions are tried and tested and have proved to be a success as statistics from other movies of this genre have shown.

Cya