Planning

As our chosen genre is a ‘teenage romance comedy’ we have thought carefully about how we will present out opening sequence. We have decided together that the opening sequence will be taken place at a house party, which is very relevant to the genre we have chosen, as teenagers are most usually stereotyped to be linked with drugs, sex and partying. As we have chosen our teenage romance comedy to take place at a party we will need to organise people to act as if they were at a party, to do this we have to make sure we are very organised so we are able to get all of the people to be apart of it, otherwise we will not be able to make the ‘appearance’ of a house party realistic.

Cast
Plastic #1Plastic #2Posh Girl Main Girl Main Girl’s best friendSlutSlut #2 (with main girl’s boyfriend)DruggieMain Boy (Main girl’s boyfriend)

Shooting Schedule (plan)
We have though carefully about how we need to include a storyline in the opening sequence that will later lead on to some form of romance later on in the film. We came up with the idea that one of the girls going to the party will walk in on her boyfriend with another girl leaving her heartbroken and alone, perhaps leading to a story or her finding another love in her life.
The first shot will be a long shot of the main girl character walking with her friend to the front door of the house party.

We will then have an over the shoulder shot of both the main girl and her friend talking to each other whilst waiting for someone to answer the door, here we will include some dialogue such as “I shouldn’t be here: you know I’ve got a boyfriend”, making it clear the viewer that the main character has a boyfriend and is un aware that he is at the party.

After the dialogue has finished, the ’posh girl’ opens the door greeting the two girl’s, we will then use a shot reverse shot showing the girl’s outside then to when their walking through the door.
Then we will use ’random’ shot’s of different aspects of the party showing dancing scenes, alcohol and drugs (obviously fake), we will use them in a sense of flashes to show ‘passing of time’.
We are then planning to use an over the shoulder shot of the two girl’s looking at the party, and through their shoulders we will see the dancing scenes of the party, we will then switch the camera to be facing the two girl’s for an reaction shot, though the crowd of teenagers dancing.
We will then start a process of introducing the other main characters and ‘clicks’ of the film, using panning and tracking:

The first character we will be introducing in this sequence will be the ‘posh girl’, we will have a medium shot of her walking through and giving money to the ‘druggies’ for drugs, their we will also be introduced to the druggies. Once the posh girl is out of the shot, the ‘plastics’ will walk into the scene walking past the druggies again and using facial expressions to show their personality and feelings towards druggies. We will then use a high angle shot looking down at the plastics walk through all the crowd, whilst all the other teenagers part and stare at them as they walk through. Then we will have a low angle shot looking up the stairs as both the plastics walk up them, we may have a close up of just the plastics shoes. Once the plastics are upstairs we will use a shot reverse shot, of them on the upstairs landing, where the ‘slut’ will walk out of the bathroom with a boy (presuming they had sex) and she pushes the plastics out of the way. The slut and the boy will then go into a bedroom together, once they are out of the scene the main girl character will then walk out of the bedroom, going into another, then using a shot reverse shot we film her going into the other bedroom where she find’s her boyfriend with another girl. Then we will use the last piece of dialogue which will be of the girl saying : “what the hell is this”, we will then have the last medium shot of her slamming the door, which will then be the end of the opening sequence and the name of the film will appear.

In conclusion this will be the main layout of how we will present out teenage romance comedy, however we are planning to shoot other shot’s that will be randomly added between the main shot’s to emphasis it being a ‘out of control party’ and also to show passing of time.
There will only be some dialogue at the beginning of the opening sequence and at the end, throughout the rest of it we will add stereotypical teenage music that will be usually found in a teenage romance comedy.