FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- Suitable for 'Loving Jennie'

FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- 'Loving Jennie'

'Loving Jennie' befits the genre of romance and the plot is very similar, to movies that have been done before. In order for us to find an appropriate production company for our opening, we filtered through our genre research (particularly the british romance films etc) narrowed the films down and checked the various production companies behind them and which ever one would be suitable for our film:

BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It is considered to be an established company at the forefront of British independent film-making and co-produces approximately eight films a year. Also works in partnership with major international and UK distributors. BBC film like 'Fingersmith' also has the theme of homsexuality featured although situated in a totally different era, than our film.

Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland. With films like (some 2011 theatrical releases) 'Season of the Witch', 'Insidious', 'Hobo With a Shotgun', 'Limitless' and 'Justice'. Mainly horror and/or action.

Relativity Media (sometimes written as RelativityMedia and Relativity) is an American independent motion picture production and investment company based in West Hollywood, California. Relativity Media filmography include many of the genre in topic, romance, e.g. 'The Holiday', 'Love Happens', 'Dear John', 'Wild Child' and 'Made of Honour'. These films do seem like polished hollywood-styled films unlike our film which we dont intend to give this impression at all.


*Redbus Film Distribution is a British film company. They have distributed and produced many films for the UK, some becoming hits, such as Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking?, Cabin Fever, Jeepers Creepers and It's All Gone Pete Tong. The first film released by Redbus was Open Your Eyes. Movies like 'Bend It Like Beckham'

Big Talk Productions Ltd. (stylized as bigtalk productions) is an English film and television production company established in 1995 by Nira Park. The company, located in London, has produced films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; it is also known for its British sitcoms such as Spaced and Free Agents.

*Focus Features
With films like 'One Day (2011)', Jane Eyre (2011), It's kind of a funny story (2010), Something New (2006) Brokeback Mountain, (2005), its evident this company work majorly with romance/romcom films that, in my opinion, are very much unlike others. For instance, Academy Award-winning, 'Brokeback Mountain',  features a storyline that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West. Considering our films plot is centred around the same issue of homosexuality, we think Focus Features would be the best decision production company wise.


*Ruby Films
With their film catalogue including movies like 'Love + Hate (2005)', 'Love and Other Disasters (2006)', 'Tamara Drewe (2010)', it suggests 'Ruby Films' could be perfect for 'Loving Jennie' because of their audience base being similar to what we intend aswell.


Others Include:

Summit Entertainment
Gateway Films
Sally Head Productions
Film4


POSTED BY TOSIN

LOVING JENNIE- Meaning

Loving Jennie


Meaning

Our film opening is titled 'Loving Jennie' because we feel not only do it presumably suggest the genre of the film but also the omission of the name of the person who 'loves' Jennnie, subtly refers to the fact, we have more than one person in our plot who loves Jennie, our protagonist.
We want our audience to understand our title as perhaps an understated summary of our plot.

POSTED BY TOSIN AND SHAHNAZ

TYPOGRAPHY- 'Loving Jennie'

Typography- 'Loving Jennie'

Now our group has decided on a name of our film, we have a few researched options, that we feel will be suitable for our film genre and our audience can understand.

To aid us in our research into different font types, we used 'dafonts.com'.










Below are the shortlist font types we collectively have decided on:

(bebas neue)

This font is edgy, yet has a sense of subtle femininity to it, and could possibly satisfy the general themes of our film of heterosexual love to lesbian love.

(jenna Sue)

This font is typically used for titles in films etc that have similar genre to ours. The curly letters collectively resemble handwriting of perhaps a love letter and it's also a font type that our audience can quickly see and assume the genre of our opening.

Similar to the above font type, this one seems like handwriting which gives a personal feel to it. Again, its a font type that will be synchronous not only with our genre but the type of impression, we wish our opening, to give to our desired audience.

(harting)

This font looks like type writing letter and it appears as if it has been written sincerely by an actual person, complementing the possible reality of the film and that this could actually happen. The roughness of the lettering creates an edgy effect which symbolises the drastic change in sexuality our protagonist goes through to make her the lesbian she is now.

 (aerial demented)

This font's shattered effect shows how our protagonist's life became quite shattered and shocked her when her lover was ran over, the font portrays this but it doesn't mean that she's given up, because the title forms actual words, it also reflects how she has picked up the pieces from the past and is giving love another chance although her sexuality has changed and her outlook on life, as she comes to term with the harsh reality and somehow she finds an inner strength that emerges in the form of her sexuality.

POSTED BY SHAHNAZ/TOSIN

GENRE RESEARCH

     BRIEF

         For our AS Media Coursework, we have to create a film opening of a genre of our choice.
         Our group chose the Romance genre and  to focus on the topic of homosexuality, in terms of plot and characters.

    GENRE RESEARCH

       •Research chosen genre

       •Codes and conventions of the genre generally 

       •Modern film examples for the genre

       •Deconstruction of each film opening

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       GENRE CONVENTIONS: ROMANCE

        'Romance films are love stories, or affairs  that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus.’

• Prologue introduction into love theme – Occasionally voiceover
•  Two Protagonist Characters – Normally Man and Woman hesitant to become romantically involved
•  Fundamental Differences Between leading characters; .i.e social class, race, popularity etc.
•  Break-up or Dilemma due to some form of an argument or disagreement.
•  Non- Diegetic sound is usually well known pop songs, so that the audience can recognise them easily. They normally relate to the story being told in the film. The songs can even assist in the story-telling process.
•  Normally situated in an urban location
•  Often centred  around the female POV
• Montages
•  Common Place the two protagonists coincidently go; where the encounter takes place, .i.e high school, work place, party etc
•  Sex or make-out scenes

By Kulsuma, Shahnaz, Stephanie and Tosin