1. ASSIGNMENT 9: GETTING INTO
GROUPS
Debbie, Maria , Milka

2. Done by:
Debbie GENRE
Drama
Reasons:
 Most of our inspirational films were drama related.
 Personal interest.
 Our story is suitable only for this genre.
 We want to get a better understanding of the
genre, therefore by picking it will be a great start.
 Original.

3. Done by: Maria
Conventions Use-Develop- Description Examples from
Challenge and Purpose films
Argument or Using Heighten the
Conflict conventions of tension to
(DRAMA) arguments emphasis
between mother emotion. You
and daughter. develop
Challenging the sympathy for
convention the daughter
because the and hate for the
violence turns mother because
into extreme mother starts
violence arguing with her
and throws a TV
at precious.

4. Convention Use-develop- Description Examples
challenge and purpose. from films
Happy ending- • Freedom writers- • Not knowing
using a real life whether the
Relief situation of when teacher is going
(DRAMA) racism has taken to change the
place and has minds of these
made the society children because
separate. no other teacher
Challenging it by could.
using a Middle-class • She realises
posh woman to what has been
change the minds of happening and
these young people. she cares unlike
Relief at the end the other
that everyone has teachers. The
united and love the audience has
teacher and are all sympathy for the
going to be in the kids as they
same class again have had a hard
with the same life.
teacher.
Done by: Maria

5. Done by: CONVENTIONS USED IN OUR
Debbie
FILM
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/
description
Arguments Use Description :Husband
 Between protagonists and wife arguing , wife
Develop
 Starting to be more aggressive
slaps husband , as she
by hitting. thinks he does not love
Challenge her, he hold her wrist ,
 Unusual hitting such as using trying to calm her down ,
some kind of weapons
 Weak protagonist winning
and stop her from doing
any other kind of physical
aggression.
Purpose: Build up
tension.

6. CONVENTIONS USED IN
Done by:
Debbie OUR FILM
conventions Use/develop/challenge purpose/Description
Conflict Use Description: By what
 Getting the wrong idea wife understand , her
about something or husband does not love
someone. her anymore, because he
 Causing violence or does not show any
argument. affection for her anymore.
Purpose: Emphasise
emotion and develop
sympathy

7. Done by:
Debbie
CONVENTIONS USED
IN OUR FILM
conventions Use/develop/challenge purpose/Description
Emphasis of Use Description:
emotion  Showing emotion  At first emotions will be
through behaviour and coming just from wife,
how you treat other but by the end husband
people will be sending out
I.e.: Affection. strong emotions too.
Develop
 Showing no kind of Purpose:
affection for someone  audience feel more into
you love. the film , because they
Challenge will know what each
 Sending out an image of character is feeling.
an uncaring character.

8. Done by: CONVENTIONS USED IN
Debbie
OUR FILM
conventions Use/develop/challenge Purpose/
description
climax use Description:
 Main characters point of  After some
view changes from what accumulated
it was at first. tension, wife
explodes and ends
up hitting the
husband, leaves
house and gets run
over.
Purpose :
 excite the
audience.

9. Done by: CONVENTIONS USED IN
Debbie OUR FILM
convention Use/develop/challenge Description/Purpose
Use of symbols or Use Description:
metaphors  Showing of something  Showing the wedding
that symbolises or rings at the
informs the audience of beginning of the
an event/date opening sequence to
show it is about a
married couple.
Purpose:
 Tell the audience
more about the
character, in a more
original way.

10. Done by:
Debbie CONVENTIONS USED IN
OUR FILM
convention Use/develop/challenge Description/Purpose
Happy Use Description:
ending/relief  Protagonist end up  Husband promises he
together. is going to try and
Get what they were change and to start to
fighting for throughout the show more of his
movie. emotions.
Develop  Wife starts to
 Protagonist are not a understand more the
couple. husbands point of
Challenge view.
 Get completely the
opposite of what they
tried to gain throughout
the movie
 One of the protagonist
dies.

11. Done by:
Debbie
convention Use/develop/challenge Description/Purpose
Realism or Use Description:
realistic issue  Using real issues such  These kind of
as love problems that problems happen a
people can relate to. lot in our everyday
life.
 Couples tend to be
shy and scared of
showing and
expressing their own
feelings.
Purpose:
 Get closer to the
audience as they may
have similar
problems.

12. Done by:
Debbie
conventions Use/develo/challenge Description/purpose
Moral Use Description:Love is not
message Drama films all tend to love if its not shown.
have a moral message
behind it, each story has
their own message.

13. Done by: Maria
INSPIRATIONAL FILMS
Titanic grease
 . I liked this movie
 .The “I‟m flying” scene inspires because it sent out a
me because of the message it good moral message.
sends out. It is like both of them  . Its moral message was
are on top of the world and that you should not
nobody around them can stop change the way you look
them. for someone just to
 I liked the way the camera attract them.
moved around them so they
emphasises that point really
well.

14. Done by: Maria
IF ONLY
 . Our film can be based on this
 . I find that the notebook was very movie. As the moral message of it
inspiring because the romance is based is the same.
on something real.  . This movie is inspirational
 . I also find it inspiring because many because it shows that you should
people go through this, and the moral always appreciate the one that you
message of it is to not let someone you love, or you can end up regretting
love go. it.
 . You should never give up on love.  . It also shows that if you do start to
appreciate her, then things will go
really well and you can show her
how much you love her

15. Done by: Maria
 . I find this movie inspiring
because it shows that even
though the one that you love is
terminally ill, you should not leave
them, but stay by their side.
 . This movie also inspires me,
because it shows that love can
change someone for the good and
not for the bad.

16. Done by:
Debbie THEMES
Discrimination
Jealousy
Obssession
Suicide Adolescence
Justice
Theme Poverty
Conflict Supernatural
Revenge
Science
Racism
Religion
Depression

17. Done by:
Debbie
CONCEPTS
Love
affairs
HIV
Pregnancy Alcohol
Hidden
feelings
Prostitution
cancer
Concepts
DNA drugs
Memory loss Homosexuality
guilt

18. THEME / CONCEPT
 Our theme is conflict.
 Our concept is guilt.
 We are going to show this by the husband
feeling guilty of what he has done.
 We show this by flashbacks of the two
arguing.

19. Done by: Milka
IDEA DEVELOPMENT
In our first group meeting we:
 Put all our ideas together
 Come out with the main idea.
 Make some changes according to our different
opinions
It wasn't too difficult because we all had very similar
ideas of what we wanted our opening sequence to be
about.

20. Done by:
Debbie
IDEA – WHOLE FILM
 Married couple where wife does everything for the
husband
 Husband shows no affection for her
 She gets fed up and they both argue
 She gets run over and put into coma
 He feels guilty and believes it is time to change as
he realises how important she is to him.

21. Done by:
Debbie
IDEA- OPENING SEQUENCE
 Close up shot of wedding rings
 Husband having flashback of him arguing with wife
and him hitting her
 Door shutting
 Car screeching
 Him running shouting „no‟

22. Done by:
Debbie
IDEA DEVELOPMENT
At first we did not have any ideas for what our
moral message was going to be therefore made
things harder. However now we have a very clear
idea of what message we want to send out.
Moral message :
 love is not love if it is not shown.
 We only realise what we have after we loose it.

23. Done by: Maria
ENIGMA
 We are going to create enigma by not showing who
was the one who has been run over.
 By both of them leaving the house we are left
curious as to which one of them has been run over.

24. Done by:
Debbie
TARGET AUDIENCE
 Age : 15-20
 Gender : mostly females
 Ethnicity : any
 Location : United Kingdom
 Hobbies : going out with friends, having fun, going cinema etc
 Social class : Middle class, working class
Target audience would be interested because :
 It has a lot to do with love
 Very common problems in this age range
 15-20 year olds interested in finding out new things about
love.
 Can be a good way to start showing their emotions more
often.

25. Done by:
Debbie CHARACTERS
Girl : sophie Boy : danny
•20 year old girl
•20 year old boy
•Fashionable
•Aggressive
•Loving
•Stubborn
•Caring
•Doesn't like to
•Wealthy
show emotions
•spoilt
•Difficult
•„family‟
background
background
•hegemonic

26. Done by:
Debbie
COSTUME & PROPS
Girl Hair down most
of the time to
Boy fashionabl
e
cover face
Fashionable Always keep
straight facia
expression
Casual
clothes Macho
Casual
clothes
Props
Weddin
g rings

27. Done by: Milka
IDEA FOR LOCATIONS
 Debbie's house in her living room,
were most of the filming would
taken place
• Door scene of where
someone leaved the
house without showing
the viewer who left.

28. Done by: Milka
OTHER LOCATIONS
• we are going to film outside Westfield for
the scene where girl is walking and
thinking about the situation
• Also to film the car
screeching will be in
Westfield as she is leaving
there.

29. Done by: Milka
NARRATIVE
We will be using non-linear narrative in are film as
there will be flash-backs and flash-forward

30. Done by: Milka
THEORIES WE WILL INCLUDE
 Claude Levi-Strauss - constant creation of
conflict/opposition propels
narrative.(love/hate, control/panic).
 Tvzetan Todorov simply
equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium

31. Done by: Milka
HOW WE WILL GET THERE
 our parents will drop us, or we could get train or
bus.
There is no health & safety danger in these
locations.

32. Done by: Milka
IF LOCATIONS IS ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE
I do believe that the place we would be filming is
always available, as it is one of the group members
house. As we wouldn't need to make an official
promotion to film in are location.