Saturday, April 14, 2018

Creative Critical Reflection

Here is my creative critical reflection for my film, For You. Hope you enjoy!




Special thanks to Isabella Espinosa, my project partner, for collaborating with me for this creative critical reflection!

- AC

Final Project: Trailers, Poster, and Film Promo Site

Trailer 1:



Trailer 2:





Film poster: 





Film website: 




- AC



Final Comments

We did it! We made it through these last seven weeks! Isabella and I have managed to finish up all of our project components in the last couple of days and though we may be sleep deprived, it was all worth it in the end. I am so incredibly proud of Isabella and I, I really could not say it enough times. Throughout these seven weeks, I have changed and grown in a way that I didnt know I could. Working with Isabella was a delight, and I could not have chosen a greater partner for this incredible journey.

Thanks for coming along this journey with me!

As always, 

-AC

Monday, April 9, 2018

The End Is Near

Welcome back guys! I can't believe I'm actually saying this but...the end is near! This is absolutely crazy to me!

Heres a little update on where Isabella and I are on our project:

  • Our trailers are finally complete! Editing these trailers took what seemed like forever, but we finally did it! We finally finsihed them both!
  • Our movie poster is almost done! So close, yet so far!! We have are main image, our layout, and our title done, but we still need to insert the credits and main characters onto our poster. Hopefully, we can finish it up soon so we can finish up the rest of the project!
  • Our website has been created but not made...does that even make sense? Let me try to explain... Since we have dedicated so much time editing, our website has suffered the consequences. When i say our website has been created, I technically mean our website actually has a workable link but no content on the site...at least not yet!
  • My creative critical reflection is currently non-existent, but dont worry, I will do it soon!

- AC

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Peer Critiques

Can you believe it's Sunday already!? 

Welcome back guys, today's post will cover some crucial information so pay attention!!

This weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), I drove up to Orlando, Florida, to visit the college I will be attending in the fall of 2018, and resolve some issues regarding my admission. Because of this trip, I was not able to go to my AICE Media Studies class and missed out on some very important things. 

During class, our teacher sperated the students into groups, allowing them to showcase their progress on their portfolio projects and ask for crtique/advice on portions of their projects. Luckily, Isabella was in class and was able to show one of our trailers to her designated group and asked them for advice on our project. We got some amazing feedback! Isabella updated me right after class and mentioned to me that the peer critiques were really helpful and that every single one of her groupmates inputed valuable advice and tips. With their permision, she recorded the whole critique so she could send it to me, so I could hear exactly what my peers had to say! Because of privacy reason, I am not going to upload the exact audio of the critique, but will talk about some of the tips they mentioned!

One student believed that our trailer was a little too slow for a trailer, which Isabella and I strongly agreed with. After mentioning this, the student advised us to cut the clips more often, and creat jump cuts in our scenes in order to fasten the pace of our trailer. 

Another student mentioned that our static clips seemed awkward and off because they were clips of bars and tones and not static. He explained to Isabella that bars and tones were often used in Televison during a technical error while static screens, like the one below, were mostly used during damaged film.


When we first inserted the bars and tones static screens into our trailer last week, I had mentioned to Isa that those were mainly used in televion as opposed to film. However, she decided it was best to keep the bars and tones, so I let it go and move on with the project. After the peer critique, however, Isabella realized that other people agreed with me and that it was best to use the black and white static screens. So, we created new static screens and inserted them into our trailers.

This critique was so helpful to Isabella and I, and even though I was not there, I am so glad my classmates were able to have that experience and chance to gain feedback/advice on their works. Thank god for peer reviews!

-AC 

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Movie Poster Progress/Ideas

Happy Thursday!

Today's post will be about our film poster progress and upcoming plans and ideas, enjoy!

Picking a font is never easy, but as an aspiring graphic design artist, I knew our film needed a font that perfectly fit our genre, target audience, and theme; so, i dedicated hours of my time trying to find the right one. Isabella and I agreed that a script font was the best way to go as it captured the attention of women (our target audience), regardless of age, and stuck to our theme/genre. The font we decided on was "Strawberry Blossom" which we found from the font site, dafont.com can be seen down below:


After downloading the font onto my computer, I began to use Adobe Photoshop CC, a program that I know how to use well, to create our movie poster. For now, our movie poster only has our title and main actors at the top of the page, as you can see below, but will be finished soon!

Trust me, I know it looks empty for now, but Isabella and I have been planning what we are going to do for the main image of the poster and cannot wait to add it in along with the bottom credits to finally finish this poster.

What exactly are we planning you ask?

Well, we decided the main image on the poster should be a picture of Ryan, played by myself. Since Ryan ends up finding the footage her father had left for her mother and becoming inspired to be a film-maker, Isabella and I planned to capture an image of Ryan holding a camera, signaling her inspiration to become a film-maker. However, we do not plan on showing Ryan in full detail, to create a mysterious, dramatic vibe, so we intend on making Ryan a silouhette holding a camera. This image against an image of a sunset or something that has meaning in the film will enhance the poster and attract the attention of the viewers, without giving the whole story away. 

Hopefully we can finish this as soon as possible, time is running out, and we still have a lot to do! See you soon!

-AC

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Video Effects

Welcome back guys! In today's post I will discuss some cool effects we added to our footage so keep reading, hope you enjoy!

Because our film revolves around the found footage of Eliza and Spencer's love story, our trailers include scenes from that found footage that Spencer had recorded prior to his death. After putting all of our scenes together into imovie and editing/tweaking clips and audio, Isabella and I watched our trailer a couple of times through and realized something was missing.

We concluded that there were 2 things that were weakinging our trailers. First of all, we hadn't created the static clips we were planning to use as a transition, and second of all, the clips in the trailer that are meant to be part of the found footage did not look like they were filmed an an old camera. After realizing that, we instantly began to create our own static transitions! 

Isabella and I watched a tutorial video on how to create static screens but realized that all tutorials were completed on Adobe Premiere Pro, not iMovie. I told Isabella that I have a student adobe account with access to all adobe products but did not know how to use Premiere pro, but after watching a few basic tutorials on YouTube, I started getting the hang of things.

After playing around with Premire Pro and following a tutorial that we found on YouTube, we created our own static screens. Check it out below!




Now that we solved our first issue, we were now faced with our second obstacle, the found footage scenes. So we began to question ourselves, how do we make it seem like we filmed those scenes on an old camera?

Well, since we found a tutorial on how to create a static effect on YouTube, we figured, why not search how to create an old camera footage look? Due to poor wording in our search, we found around 15 different tutorials on how to create this effect. Without hesitation, we watched all 15 tutorials and all that was ledt to do was follow one of them and create the old camera effect on all of our found footage scenes. 

Isabella and I decided to follow the tutorial below and created, what I believe is, a masterpiece!



After following this tutorial step by step for each found footage clip, we then began to re-insert the clips into iMovie to finish our trailers. Finally, we had found what was missing! Here's a look at an example of a found footage clip with the effect from the above tutorial. Enjoy!




As you can see, editing isn't always easy! Sometimes, editing may be one of the most tedious and hardest parts of production. Luckily, Isabella and I were able to work together and conquer the editing beast! 

Until next time,

-AC



Sunday, April 1, 2018

Film poster conventions

As promised, I will be researching the general conventions of a film promo poster. Here we go!
  • Film posters are a form of promotion that aids in drawing in the film's target audience before the film premieres. 
  • The majority of film posters have an artistic value, which inclines the audience to purchase the poster and hang them up for their own eyes to see. 
  • Iconography, or the visual images and symbols used in a work of art, is an important factor in film posters. 
    • Iiconography always helps identify the genre of the film and aids in further intriguing the target audience.
  • Main conventions of film trailers:
    • Eye-catching poster to entice viewers
    • Main image should focus on capturing the essence or a part of the film
    • The title should be eye-catching and roughly take up a third of the poster
    • The poster should focus on genre and follow genre conventions
    • Poster should include tag line and/or release dates
    • Poster should include main actors/actresses and directors/producers
    • Symbolic colors
The movie, The Vow, is the perfect example for a demonstration of a romantic drama film poster.


As you can see in the image, the film poster for The Vow, incorporates many of the general conventions for film posters. The tag line is perfectly visible, and portrays the depth and importance of love in the film. The main image highlights the main plot of the story without giving away too much, which entices the viewers. The light background symbolizes the love between the two characters and sets the mood for the film. Overall, this poster incorporates many conventions.


Thanks to this research, I am able to open my eyes and start to plan on how Isabella and I are going to organize our film poster. Of course we still have to finish editing the second trailer, but it is important to multitask at times, since we don't have too much time left for this project! Stay tuned for our film poster story boarding!

-AC

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Editing progress

Folks, we did it! We have finally made some progress on our editing, thanks to Isabella! Once she came back from Paris, Isabella and I spent hours finding the perfect song for our trailer, royalty free of course! After finding the perfect song, we were able to start editing.

Unfortunately, the file of our trailer is over 100MB and will not upload to blogger. Isabella and I both agreed that uploading it to YouTube is not the best idea since it is not the finished trailer. All we are missing from trailer one is static scenes and camera footage lenses. Therefore, you will just have to trust our word for now and wait until we can get the file under 100MB to show you guys a preview!

Isabella was an absolute hero when it came to editing our first trailer. She took this task under her wing and went for it. Of course, I was there to offer her guidance and help when she needed! Isabella incorporated muliple cinematic conventions in the trailers to make it more real and conventional. She added cinematic bars to the whole trailer, to make it look like the trailer had thick black margins on the top and bottom of the trailer. Isabella also added the vignette filter to the found footage, which makes the image look more vintage.

The audio of  the trailer consists of voice-overs, which Isabella strategically placed, back-ground music, which we both agreed aided in conveying the romantic mood and vibe, and audio from the clips that we filmed. Though Isabella was faced with the tough task of matching our voice overs with the clips that we filmed, she powered through and the result is amazing!

I'm just so happy we are making progress and that we are catching up from being behind! I can't wait to start editing trailer two and begin researching on poster conventions!

Stay tuned for more...

-AC

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Work, Work, & More Work

Welcome back guys! 

It's work time!! Isabella is officially back home from Paris so it is now officially time to work! 

Here is an outline I created for what Isabella and I have to work on in the next couple of days:

Today, Thursday, March 29:

  • Research Royalty Free Music Sites
  • Find background song for our trailers
Friday, March 30:
  • Begin to edit Trailer 1
    • Insert voice-overs
    • Insert background music
    • Match audio
    • Level out audio
    • Etc.
  • Begin to brainstorm ideas for our film poster
Saturday, March 31:
  • Finish editing Trailer 1
  • Start editing Trailer 2
    • Insert voice-overs
    • Insert background music
    • Match audio
    • Level out audio
    • Etc.
Sunday, April 1:
  • Research film poster conventions
  • Brainstorm ideas for our film poster

Stay tuned for our editing progress!

-AC

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Behind Schedule/Trouble in paradise

Uh-oh.. guess who is slightly behind schedule again.....

You guessed it.. its me! :(

This week has been an absolute roller coaster for me. Since it is the last week of the 3rd quarter in school (in America most high schools use quarter schedules, not semester schedules), I have been running around like crazy making sure i have the best grades I can possibly earn. Not only did I have to work three times as hard this week in school, but I am also balancing family and personal issues that have taken a bit of a toll on me. Because of this, I was not able to begin editing this week. 

But don't lose all hope fellow blog readers! Guess what this week is??? SPRING BREAK!!! 

I am finally on break so I will absolutely get right on track. Isabella, my project partner will be in Paris, France (so lucky, I know!) during the majority of the break but I on the other hand, will be sitting on my bed working my editing magic. For now, it's time to relax, but stay tuned for my magic!

-AC

Friday, March 23, 2018

Recap: Filming Day 2

Check it out! Here's some of the footage from our second filming day!! Once again, I have put together a short clip of some footage from day two, without any editing, hope you enjoy!



Now that we have all the footage, it's time to start actually editing!

- AC

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Recap: Filming Day 1

Welcome back blog readers!

As promised, here is some of the footage from the first day of filming! In order to make this post as efficient as possible, I have put a short clip of some footage from day one, without any editing! I can't wait to actually begin to edit!



- AC



Saturday, March 17, 2018

Filming Day 1&2

You know how I mentioned how I think Isabella and I have super powers?

Well, now I know we do!!

Earlier this week we had promised ourselves that we would finish our storyboards, dialogue, and filming by the end of the week; and guess what? We did it! We filmed 95% of our project in the last 2 days. Though we are missing one or two scenes left to film, I am so proud of the hard work we have put in this week. Hopefully, since we are now caught up on our schedule, we are able to stay on track and keep this project flowing smoothly. Stay tuned for some footage from our filming days! 

- AC

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Dialogue

I'm starting to believe Isabella and I have super powers... we finished the dialogue with no problems! Check it out down below:



Spencer’s Dialogue:
Trailer 1:
  • Frame 3: “Hey my name is Spencer”
  • Frame 6: “What’s your your name?
  • Frame 12:
    • Eliza says: “On a scale of 1 to 10, How was my cooking, and be honest, i won't get offended”
    • “As you can clearly see, I hated it.”
    • “Why are you making dad jokes when you aren’t even a dad…”
    • (Turns and whispers) “yet….”
  • Frame 24: “...And this is for you”
Trailer 2:
  • Frame 8: “Stop splashing me, I’ll slip and fall in!”
  • Eliza says, “That’s the whole point love!"

Young Eliza’s Dialogue:

Trailer 1:
  • Frame 6:
    • Spencer says “What’s your name?”
    • “Eliza”
  • Frame 11:
    • Ryan walks through the door
    • “Hey sweetie how was school?”
  • Frame 12:
    • “So did you like it?”
    • Spencer says “As you can clearly see, I hated it.”
    • “Why are you making dad jokes when you aren’t even a dad…”
    • (Turns and whispers) “yet….”
  • Frame 18:
    • Spencer knocks on door with flowers, chocolates, and teddy bear”
    • “He was sweet like the chocolates he used to get me every Valentine’s day and adorable like the teddy bear he would always bring me; oh and those roses, oh they were my favorite, and his favorite too”
  • Frame 22:
    • Car Screeches, Spencer gets run over
    • “Spencer!!!”


Older Eliza’s Dialogue:

Trailer 2:
  • Frame 8: 
    • Spencer says “Stop splashing me, I’ll slip and fall in!”
    • “That's the whole point babe!”
  • Frame 14:
    • Doctor: “Congratulations! What are you gonna name her”
    • “Ryan.”
Ryan’s Dialogue:

Trailer 1:

  • Frame 10:
    • Teacher: “Reflection of video due monday...Ryan are you even listening?!”
    • “Mhmm”
  • Frame 11:
    • Eliza asks “Hey sweetie how was school?”
    • “It was whatever i guess..”
  • Frame 16:
    • Ryan walks to Spencer’s grave and lays roses down
    • “Hey dad, i heard you liked these, mom told me, and i wanted to bring them for you….*sigh*....i really wish i couldve met you”
  • Frame 17:
    • Ryan is sitting with older Eliza
    • “Mom...what was he like?”
  • Frame 19:
    • Ryan finds For You file
    • “Why didn’t you tell me about this?!”
Trailer 2:
  • Frame 16:
    • Ryan is sitting with older Eliza
    • “What was he like?”

Doctor’s Dialogue:
Trailer 1:
  • Frame 22:
    • Car Screeches, Spencer gets run over
    • Eliza says “Spencer!”
    • Heart rate monitor beeps
    • “Eliza I’m so sorry, he’s dead”
Trailer 2:
  • Frame 14:
    • Audio of baby crying (Ryan being born)
    • Doctor: Congratulations! What are you gonna name her?”

Friend Dialogue:

Trailer 1:
  • Frame 15:
    • Clouded voice in Ryan’s head
    • “What are you getting your dad for Father's’ day?"

Teacher’s Dialogue:
Trailer 1:
  • Frame 10:
    • In class, Ryan is sleeping.
    • Teacher says “ Reflection of video due monday...Ryan are you even listening?!”

- AC

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Storyboards: Trailers 1&2

Welcome back, guys! Guess what?

We did it !! Isabella and I finally finished our new storyboards! Go take a look: 


Trailer 1:







Trailer 2:




As you can see, Isabella and I decided to make trailer 2 more theatrical, and shorter than trailer two because we agreed that our first trailer would be advertised to our younger target audience, women ages 13-25, while our second trailer would be targeted towards women ages 30-50. Our first trailer would be distributed through social media, while our second trailer would be displayed in theaters and on television.

Now that we finished our storyboard it is time to write our dialogue! Until next time...

- AC


Tuesday, March 13, 2018

New Ideas

As you know from my last post, Isabella and I have had trouble casting actors/actresses for our roles of Spencer and Ryan. During our Aice Media A Level class, we began to storyboard our trailers but could not fully focus since we knew we had another issue that we were putting off and ignoring.

Our Aice Media A Level teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa, fortunately, met with Isabella and me to discuss our project. During this meeting, we explained our conflicts with casting and how we have not been able to find a male in his early 20s that would be willing to be in our trailer. We also explained that we have not been able to cast Ryan, Spencer and Eliza's daughter because we did not have an actor for Spencer to rely on for Ryan's physical appearance and looks. 

Without giving us exact ideas, Mrs. Stoklosa suggested that we rearrange our plot to accommodate our conflicts. Isabella and I looked at each other and knew it would be the best thing to do, even though we had already started our storyboard and had spent days trying to figure out our original plot. Mrs. Stoklosa ended our meeting with one statement that made us realize what we had to do. She said something along the lines of, "What if Spencer never appeared?" and then told us to go figure it out on our own.

Are you ready to hear what our new idea is???

Well, Isabella and I realized we could accommodate our conflict without changing the plot in any way. We decided to restart our storyboard and take out all shots of Spencer in the trailer. But after realizing it was somewhat necessary to show Spencer, we agreed on only showing shots that did not show Spencer's full body. With this idea, we knew we could cast any male with male prominent features, without having to be around 20 years old, that could be in our trailer. I instantly thought of my younger cousin, Matias Morales. Since we decided to never show Spencer's face, we agreed that using Matias in our trailer was the best idea.

Now, all we were missing was casting Ryan, but since we were using my family from my mother's side, Laura Morales (young Eliza), Patricia Morales (older Eliza), and Matias Morales (Spencer), I offered to play to role of Ryan in order to provide consistency with casting appearance. Hopefully, I can overcome my camera shyness and showcase my acting skills (if I have any....)

So, we began to storyboard again, but this time, had no conflicts to interrupt us. Finally!!!

Though we are a bit behind schedule, Isabella and I knew we wanted to push ourselves to finish our storyboard, write our dialogue, and film this week. It'll be a long week, but I know we can do this!

Stay tuned for our final storyboard and dialogue!

- AC

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Film Outline

That short break from our plot hole really payed off! Not only were Isabella and I able to fix the plot hole, we were able to come up with the name of our film, our charachter's names, some casting, and our production company logo. All of that information can be found down below in the outline i have created for our film. Enjoy!

Film Outline

  • Production Company: A&I Studios
  • Logo:












  • Film title: For You
  • Character Names:
    • Husband: Spencer
    • Wife: Eliza
    • Daughter: Ryan
  • Casting:
    • Eliza: Laura Morales
    • Ryan: (Haven't casted yet!)
    • Spencer: (Haven't casted yet!)
  • How they come up with the daughters name:
    • Dinner date/lunch date
      • Spencer: “Do you see yourself having children?”
      • Eliza: "Of course."
      • Spencer: “What would be our child’s name?”
      • Eliza: “Ryan?"
      • Spencer: "That's perfect! I love unisex names."
  • Plot:
    • Spencer documents his life
      • Films meeting Eliza
      • Films relationship milestones with Eliza
    • Eliza gets pregnant
    • Spencer begins to film his reaction
    • Spencer dies
    • 17 years later...
    • Ryan is in highschool
      • Super unmotivated, no purpose
    • Ryan finds her parent's love story footage
    • Ryan notices there are pieces of the footage that are broken
      • Static screens
      • No ending
    • Ryan finds her purpose
      • Fix her father's film and become a film maker
    • Ryan decides to apply to film school in New York University (NYU)
    • Ryan gets accepted to film school because of her father's film that she fixed

As you can see, Isabella and I have made a lot of progress regarding our film. Now all that's left to do is finish casting, storyboard, write the dialogue and begin to film! We are a little behind schedule, but I know we will work everything out!

- AC

Friday, March 9, 2018

Production Company

Often times in life, taking a break from something you are stuck on can help tremendously in the long run. So, before our brains explode, Isabella and I agreed to take a break from the plot hole and focus on another aspect of our trailer.
Since we have to create a production company that is producing our film, we decided to brainstorm logo and company name ideas. Both of us knew we wanted the company to include our names, in some way or another. So, we played around with the use of our first name initials, A and I. 

As you can see on the right, we created around 15 different logos for our production company. However, none of them fully captured the true essence of our friendship and project goals. Ever since Isabella and I met, we had a connection with triangles, I know it sounds weird, right? As weird as it sounds, we both felt that a triangle was the perfect shape that represented our bond and friendship. So, it only made perfect sense that we used a triangle in our production company logo. 

We completely scratched those 15 logos and started designing new logos that incorporated a triangle. After drawing out two triangles on top of each other, we came up with our final logo and added on our company name, A&I Studios.


Here is the final sketch for our production company logo: 



Now all that is left to do with this logo is create the actual digital version based on our sketch.

Stay tuned for the digital version!

- AC

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Plot Hole

Welcome back blog readers!

As promised in my last post, I will discuss our final plot ideas. But upon talking to Isabella, we came to the realization that there is a hole in our plot. 

After brainstorming off of each other's ideas, we concluded that the found love story would revolve around a young couple in college. Without figuring out the exact details, we agreed to portray the boyfriend/husband as an aspiring film-maker who vlogs/films all aspects of his life. 

  • One day, in his college class, the guy, which we have not named (and should get on top of that soon), decides to vlog himself in class discussing how his day is going. 
    • He will notice a girl walking through the doors and instantly turns the camera to show her beauty. Then, he will talk about the giant crush that she has on this girl and will make it a point to talk to her next class.
    • Since he is a vlogger, he will begin to document their love story and film their first conversation, their first dates, proposal, etc.
  • After a couple of years, the boyfriend/husband will come home from class/work and will begin to vlog from inside of his car.
    • The girlfirend/wife will run out of the house and surprise him.
      • He begins to vlog her
    • The girlfriend/wife will be shown with a pregancy stick that reads positive
      • He jumps out of the car, vlogs the pregancny stick and yells "I'm gonna be a father!"
    • He tells the girlfriend/wife to wait there as he runs across the street to pick up a flower from the neighbor's yard.
      • On his way back across the street, a car will not see him, and will run him over
        • He is vlogging the whole acident
          • Camera falls and you hear the girlfirend/wife scream
          • Fade to static
This overall plot is a great start to our project, but we soon realized that there is no resolution. If the filming of the love story is the rising action and his death is the climax, what's the resolution? We can't create two trailers for a film that doesnt have a resolutio, it's impossible and incomplete! We have hit a plot hole, and now we are stuck. 

Hopefully Isabella and I will be able to create a resolution to our plot and will find our way out of the plot hole. 

Until then.....

-AC

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Target Audience

Hello blog readers, welcome back!

Since I have concluded my research on conventions, it is time to now move on to researching the target audience for romantic dramas and then coming to a conclusion on the target audience for our movie! Here we go!

Romance films are typically targeted towards women, with certain films targeting different ages. 

Some romantic films are target towards older women, around the ages 35-50. These films are generally made to portray the struggles an older woman faces in her love life.

One romantic drama, with an older female audience is the film The Time Traveler's Wife. This film explores the theme of a husband time traveling and how it affects his marriage with his wife. This romantic drama with a hint of fantasy and sci-fi, aids in targeting older women as their target audience by demonstrating the struggles and complications of marriage and love in general.



Another film that targets older women is the film P.S. I Love You. This 2007 romantic drama revolves around a young widow dealing with her death of her husband, who has left her messages to help her move on and begin a new life without him. Before researching this film, I had no idea how similar it was to our plot! However, this film focuses more on the effect the death has on the wife's life rather than the child's life, like our film. This film targets an older audience by illustrating how the death of the woman's husband affects her life as an adult.




However, Isabella and I decided it was best to target a younger target audience, since our film revolves around the love story of a young-adult couple and the effect of the husband's death on their young daughter.

Romantic dramas with younger women as their target audience usually target the ages 13-25, such as the films The Last Song and LOL.


Based on the romantic novel written by Nicholas Sparks, there is no doubt that the romantic drama film, The Last Song, is targeted at young women. In the film, A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect. The target audience for this film is young women in their teenage years.  






LOL, a 2012 romantic drama, revolves around the main character, Lola, and her relationship with a boy in high school. This love story captures the attention of young women since it explores the wave of emotions Lola is feeling, thanks to her growing hormones, and other young love story lines. Though Isabella and I agreed that the relationship we portray in our film is based in the couple's college years, this film is a perfect example for our target audience, since it targets younger women ages 14-20. 




Thanks to this research, Isabella and I have come to the conclusion that our target audience is young women ages 13-25. Since women in these ages are typically high school students living with their parents or college students, are target audience expands to young women ages 13-25 in the upper-middle class. Though ethnicity may play a large role in target audiences for certain genres, Isabella and I believe the target audience for a romance genre  is not centralized on ethnicity. 

Now that we finally have the basis down for our film, it is time to create one last outline, regarding the plot, characters, and other technical elements regarding our film. See you soon!

- AC


“The Last Song (2010).” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt1294226/?ref_=tt_rec_tt. 

“LOL (2012).” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt1592873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. 

“P.S. I Love You (2007).” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt0431308/?ref_=ttls_li_tt. 

"The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)." IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/?ref_=ttls_li_tt.