Evaluation for Romantic Comedy
The purpose of this assignment was to design, develop and
create a trailer for a romantic comedy movie. We were also asked to design a
poster for the trailer. We were given the title “The First Date” to use for the
trailer. I don’t really know much about romantic comedies. I’m only able to
think of four romantic comedies that I’ve enjoyed and I’m unsure if two
actually qualify as Romantic Comedies. Basically, I was out of my area of
expertise. Despite this I quickly came up with a couple of ideas for the
trailer. The first was about a guy trying to get his friend a first date as he
had never been on one. It was a very typical Romantic Comedy plot and I quickly
changed it. I then decided to go more down the dark comedy route and had the
idea to have a guy kidnapped by a girl and forced to go on a date with them. This
quickly became the favoured idea and I started storyboarding it.
I had an idea for the poster almost immediately. It was the
typical romantic poster with a white background and red text. The girl would
casually be leaning on the guy. The twist was the guy was duct taped to a
chair. Any other poster ideas quickly became irrelevant and this is likely my
first mistake as I became determined to use this one idea. The other poster ideas I noted down were not
as good as the first one and I didn’t put much thought into them. Due to my
poor drawing skills, I don’t think the sketch of the poster I did was very good
and apparently, neither did anyone else as two other students (Carl Doherty and
Chloe McCann) decided that my drawing of the female lead was so bad that they
drew her themselves. It was amusing and probably made the poster better.
The filming went very well for the most part with a majority
of it being filmed in a single session. In this session I couldn’t actually
move, due to me being duct taped to a chair, so it took a little longer for
things to get done. Overall I think it was a very good session and not much
could have been done to improve it. The only real thing wrong is that we had to
do it in a different location than I wanted too. This was due to the studio
being modified at the time.
One of areas I don’t think I did particularly well in is the
research. It was difficult to find any “history of romantic comedies” pages or
anything on the subject of past romantic comedies for some reason. I think it’s
likely because people aren’t very interested in old romantic comedies and are
more interested in the new ones. I think another factor in my research not
being very good is that I’m really not a fan of Romantic Comedies. This made it
difficult for me to find, what I consider, to be more interesting information.
Overall I think that this is one of the worst videos I’ve
made. I’m not pleased with it at all. This is likely due to the fact that I have no
idea what I’m doing when it comes to romantic comedies and I don’t think it was
very funny. The camera work and the acting were good, the script was very good. I'm not actually sure anymore what made the video so bad. It could have been a lack of motivation on my part or maybe because I wasn't enjoying the project. In conclusion its probably not as bad as I think it is but I'm still not happy with it.
