Textual Analysis

When it came to this part of the task, we had to write 8 detailed textual analysis on other well known romantic comedies. I chose to look at films such as Love actually, P.S i love you and Nothing Hill, not only did these all get mentioned in our questionnaires but i had previously seen this films, making it easier to do a detailed analysis of the films. I also analyzed the openings, looking specifically at the codes and conventions that typically appeared in each opening and seeing how they set up the setting and introduced the characters and storyline.
These detailed analysis will make it a lot easier when it comes to creating our own opening.

Presenting our Questionnaire Findings

After this lesson, we collated our results and created a presentation to give to the class about our findings. We created graphs and tables explaining the differing results and found this very helpful. We noticed that the results gave very particular results, particularly when looking at the gender of the audience to romantic comedies. We found that male viewers watch the films with their girlfriends or wives, not one male said that they had watched it with friends. This made us aware of particular target audience.

We also found out the typical codes and conventions that people expected in the opening of a romantic comedy. These will help us make our openings genre easily identifiable.

We were given feedback about our presentations and were told that they were very good, and that we had sufficient detail in our presentation in order to move onto the next part of the task.

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22nd January 2010

This week we have been collecting results from 50 different people, asking several questions such as 'Who do you watch romantic comedies with?' and 'Where would you expect a romantic comedy to be set?' these questions allowed us to gather lots of differing opinions, and allowed us to see the typical and most common answers. This research will give us an insight into what the audience expect, and allows us to improve our final film openings, due to knowing a lot about the target audience and the codes and conventions in well known romantic comedies.

Once we had collected our results, we calculated the percentages for each question and created graphs and charts to make our results easier to understand. We then created a powerpoint in order to present our findings to the group and Mr. Cramb.

The results gave us a good insight into who we are aiming our romantic comedy at, and sparked some ideas on to what to include in our very own opening. Mr Cramb will be giving feedback on our presentations next lesson.

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Second Lesson

Friday 15th January
Today we evaluated our questionnaire with Mr Cramb, we went through what we could improve for example; the age ranges were too varied and we needed to fit them to the different film certificates. Doing this would make our results even more precise and informative.

We are now typing up our questionaire, we want to make it neat and clear, once it is complete, we will start collecting our results.

First Lesson

Thursday 14th January
In yesterdays lesson we chose our groups. My group is Me, Ollie and Jennie.
We have decided to choose the genre of 'Romantic Comedy' and produced a mind map, that included all of our ideas about the genre. We also wrote the typical conventions that a 'Rom Com' featured, such as lighting, sound and stock characters. Doing this will help us to create our own 'Rom Com' opening and ensure that we use the typical conventions that are expected in this genre.

We also discussed the target audience of this genre, we decided to create a draft of our questionnaire that we will use to find out more information about our audience. It'll also allow our opening to be more effective, and will make the genre of the film clear as soon as the opening is seen.

Researching the genre and audience is very important, as we will therefore have a well produced and planned opening to our film.

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