Influence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlGUO4el_0

When planning our film, we eventually settled on producing a five minute short film. After several ideas, we eventually setlled on an Inbetweeners style comedy about how rumors are spread and distorted, becoming incredulous.

We settled on this, becuase we wanted to produce a product that was original, unusual and different from average.

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Influences

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnusc9Rlx6w&feature=related

When trying to settle on a subject for the film, we were inspired by this sketch from That Mitchell and Webb look to make the film revolve around a character's drunken misadventures, and how different people see those events, and how this differs from the protagonist themselves.

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Writing plots and scripts

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228170048AAGm1ZF

When writing the plot and script for the film, we have browsed as many drunken and embarresing stories as is possible online, to try and Frankenstein these stories into a workable plot.

When writing the script, we have taken into account the disposition of the character that we are writing lines for, for example when writing line for Pete's character, the chav, we consulted him on the lines, and indeed headed many of his suggestion as to line ideas, so as to get a third party perspective on the believability of the lines.

When deciding which drunken embarresments to include in our plot, we selected the ones that we found the most homourous; we originally had an alternative scene, but after thought and consultation, we decided it was too risque for this particular project, and decided to change it. Obviously for this genre of film, we needed to include blue humour; throughout this we will endeavour to ensure it is not overly offensive to any parties.

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Classification Research

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/BFF278474/

When researching what classification our project would likely fall under, we looked at The Inbetweeners, a film with similar themes and homour style to see what rating it would likely recieve. Although not going for as strong references to sex and not as much strong language, we still feel that a 15 would be appropriate for our film. Our desire to fall into this category add to the argument against including a scene that was particullarly offensive, and in the end we decided not to use this in the script.

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Genre Research

http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms.html

When deciding on a plot and script for our project, we researched the codes and conventions of different subgenres of comedy, attempting to follow some of these; however we did not want to use excessive cliches and outdated homour. We have decided to include slapstick elements to the film, such as drunken stumbling and over the top fighting. We will use this to create an increased sense of confusion in the drunken scene, and add a touch of homour to the fight scene, which could otherwise be taken relatively seriously when compared to the rest of the film.

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Target audience research

When planning our film, we decided the target audience should be the 18-35 age category; we came to this conclusion based on the blue homour sometimes included, which this age group would find acceptable, whereas other age groups may find it offensive or otherwise unnaceptable.

By setting this age category for our target audience, we were able to include more crude homour without concern for alienating the target audience with the topics that we address. However, throughout writing it we tried our best to make sure there would be nothing that offends people outside of the target audience too, as we want our film to have the widest appeal possible.

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