Romance Genre/Opening! (Implementation)

 Context

In my first preliminary research blogs, I looked into film openings and how they created meaning and effectiveness

Research

During this process I looked at many romance films to take inspiration and incorporate ideas similar into my project. I mainly looked at Her (2013), but I also looked at films I had not mentions like The Notebook (2004) and Lala Land (2016). All of these movies use colors to convey a certain message and tell a visual story. Her uses warmer/softer color palette to signify safety, intimacy, and affection. 

Planning

In this stage, I wanted to recreate that same warm and inviting connotations. So, I planned on having a warmer color palette as well with red as a larger emphasis. 

Romance Aspect

A romance is to evoke a range of emotion within an audience (both positively and negatively), connect with them and reflect on societal norms surrounding love and relationships in general. Since it is a popular genre, I tried to replicate this in the first half of my film, to build audience's expectations. 

Her 

Shot of Lucille at the dinning table

I wanted to replicate the coloring that the one's from Her (specifically the scene I have above). Using this reference, it helped me communicate and articulate to the editor what I wanted. As I have mentioned, we used a warmer color palette tbat highlighted red. Here, red symbolizes love/romance and passion. The familiar warm and welcoming colors helps set the audience's expectations of what is going to happen this. Which will help set up later shots.

Medium-long shot of the dinner table

Another key thing is that, the opening should (perhaps) already been established as a romance due to the setting. It takes place at Lucille's home, as a dinner date between the two character. Steve's character can help relate/connect with the audience, due to his nervous/awkward nature (realism).

Overall, I do think our film does it's job of fullfilling romance genre conventions as an opening.