The Pitch - Mise-en-scene Plan

Location:

We plan to film in 2 locations, the sixth form canteen and in the Tamworth castle grounds. The Castle Grounds scene is the first for our opening and has been chosen because it can look picturesque and provides an appropriate background for the shots we plan to film.

Our second location of the sixth form canteen is self-explanatory as the premise of the scene is that the group of ‘lads’ are on a break while at sixth form and at the end of the scene our main character leaves to return to lesson (and escape the awkward situation.) We are using the locations as representations, as for the castle grounds scene the two characters will be out in the wider world, connoting they have come out and in the canteen scene our main character will be positioned on the edge of the table to show he is separate to his friends.

Costume:

For our first scene we plan for our two characters to be wearing casual but warm clothing eg. Scarf, coat which connotes the scene is taking place in winter; the typical time of year for the majority of rom-coms. Contrary, in our second scene all of the characters will be dressed in suits appropriate to the context of the scene (sixth form). However we plan in this scene to use the outfits as a representation as our main character will not be wearing our tie whereas the other characters will showing he is different to them.

Lighting:

All of our scenes will be bright and well-lit as from our research we found rom-coms usually have very light storylines and so if our scenes are dark or dimly lit it wouldn’t match the narrative. The lighting will also help put the audience at ease and relax rather than be on edge which a darker scene may cause.

Representation:

We are planning to use a variety of concepts to represent our characters and narratives.

Firstly as mentioned in costumes, our main character is going to be dressed slightly different to the other characters to represent how he is different and secondly as mentioned in location, the character will be seated at the edge of the table to represent how he is separate to the others; he’s different.

We are also breaking a typical rom-com convention by the narrative surrounding a gay couple rather than a heterosexual relationship. We believe this is a way in which we are bringing the rom-com genre into the 21^st century where the diversity of relationships (particularly homosexual) is on the increase.

We are also representing modern relationships by using technology as a major aspect of our narrative. Relationships nowadays do have a high online presence as well as real life literal presence and therefore we want to represent both of these in our narrative with the first scene showing the couple physically together and the second showing the couple talking over text. The connection between the protagonist and the recipient of the messages will be clear to the audience as we are using hearts and kisses throughout the exchange to symbolise the relationship.