Our Opening Title Evaluation - Part 4

We have tried to make Love on the Line follow the main and stereotypical codes and conventions of a romantic comedy, which involves and two protagonists 'the goodies' a male and a female and one main antagonist 'the baddie' which is stereotypically a male, and all male protagonists are trying to get the girls heart, ending with a happy ending what ever happens during the film. 


But because of the comedy side to the genre there must be humor and embarrassment to either the male protagonist or the male antagonist  this shows that our genre is in fact a romantic comedy not just a romantic film and this is what the audience would like to see in a rom-com. 


When we finally did editing we used many different techniques to make our titles look good and to put the comedy side to the genre out there. 


Firstly we used a split screen to show there is two sides to this story and how they both live different lives this could also put the romantic genre into perspective because one is male and one is female. 


Secondly we used many different transitions like cross fades between shots to give it that professional look and so that our footage could change from scene to scene nicely.


Thirdly we used a  typewriter text for our typography to relate it to an office work place and also the way tracks can be straight. 


We used loads of different angles to shot our footage, we used close ups on the male protagonist to show him getting ready and to emphasize how much of a rush he is in. We used an establishing shot of some big buildings in London to show that is was based in an office and to set out our settings. 


For our music we couldn't use any everyday music because of copyright, we found a website that we could use that is a royalty free music website, we searched long and hard for just the right music and  when we eventually found one it still had a romantic feel to it but was still up beat to bring in the comedy side to the opening titles and how the male protagonists was in a hurry.


For our mis-en-scene we used stereotypically colours for a romantic comedy like the colours red. The female protagonist wore a red coat to relate themselves to a romantic comedy. We also used white for the typography which is also a romantic related colour so that the audience would guess it was a romantic comedy just from the titles.