Research and Planning-Distributors

Nickelodeon Movies is the motion picture production arm of children's cable channel Nickelodeon, originally launched in 1995. Its first film was Harriet The Spy . It has produced films based on Nickelodeon programs, as well as other adaptations and original projects. Its films are released by fellow Viacom division Paramount Pictures. Nickelodeon Movies was originally to be launched in May 1993 under a co-financing deal with 20th Century Fox, but the launch date was delayed to 1995, hence Fox transferred their duties to Paramount Pictures.On August 21, 2006, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films became full labels of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.

Research and Planning-Distributors

Nickelodeon Movies is the motion picture production arm of children's cable channel Nickelodeon, originally launched in 1995. Its first film was Harriet The Spy . It has produced films based on Nickelodeon programs, as well as other adaptations and original projects. Its films are released by fellow Viacom division Paramount Pictures. Nickelodeon Movies was originally to be launched in May 1993 under a co-financing deal with 20th Century Fox, but the launch date was delayed to 1995, hence Fox transferred their duties to Paramount Pictures.On August 21, 2006, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films became full labels of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.

Films Nickeldeon Have Distributed
2008
Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2009
Hotel for Dogs
Imagine That
2010
The Last Airbender
2011
Rango

Research and Planning-What Is A Romantic Comedy

The basic plot of a Romantic Comedy is that two protagonists, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two protagonists meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes the two protagonists are hesitant to become romantically involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner, or because of social pressures. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other and that they would be a good love match. The protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together.

Early romantic comedies
Girl Shy (1924)
City Lights (1931)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Modern Times (1936))
My Man Godfrey (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Ninotchka (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Ball of Fire (1941)


Later romantic comedies
Carry On Loving (1970)
Annie Hall (1977)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Moonstruck (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Overboard (1987)
Working Girl (1988)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Pretty Woman (1990)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
French Kiss (1995)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Sabrina (1995)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
One Fine Day (1996)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Picture Perfect (1997)
Overnight Delivery (1998)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Au Pair (1999)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
She's All That (1999)
Miss Congeniality (2000)

This is an example of how we will be using the split screen affect, and how different bits of the screen can be broke up to add a differnt affect. Though the image shows four split screen and we are only using two.

Research on title sequences

This title sequence is what inspired us for our title sequence. The reason we liked this title sequence was because how the titles interlinked with the opening sequence, and thats what we would like to achieve with our titles. Because we are editing our opening sequence through split screen we would like the name of our film to be shown through the split screen instead of in one frame. The way we would like to achive this is by Poppy having a book that says Naive in it and Josh having a DVD with City on it and when they are put together they will say the name of our film, Naive City.

Analysis of a openings "Juno"-Research and Planning

The Juno opening sequence is very childlike and this aspect of the title sequence works with the Juno character. The main concentration of the opening sequence is Juno; the opening is quite simple as that all we are seeing is her (Juno) on a journey. However it’s what we see on her journey that make up the character and, the rest of the film.

The way the titles are displayed is essential, as they set up the characters. An example of this would be when we see Juno walking past a music shop, we see a animated guitar and a rocking chair, which follows with "Micheal Cera" name, and that makes it clear that the character he plays is into music, and maybe likes to relax and play the guitar perhaps.
Also what makes this title sequence so exciting is the fact it’s made up of a sequence of drawings with a soundtrack that is quite catchy; animatic. To me it seems very original, and I think that works very well in context with the nature of the film, and the main character, Juno.

Introduction To Research And Planning-Production Brief

PROJECT NAME: Naive City
LENGTH: 90 Seconds-2 Minutes
DEADLINE: 22nd January 2010

GROUP MEMBERS AND THEIR ROLES:
Gemma Banham:Editing And Assisting With Filming
Molly Baxter: Sorting Out Recce And Assisting With Filming
Jason Summerfield: Schedule's And Organising Also Assisting With Filming
Aimee Rawlinson: Casting And Costume (Character Profile) And Assisting With Filming

OVERVIEW: Our film is a Romantic Comedy based around two characters; Poppy and Josh. The main story of our film is going to be how these two characters have different social backgrounds, but they have aspects of eachother that are very similar. In the opening sequence we are going to introduce these themes.

Research And Planning- The Perfect Opening Sequence

What The Opening SHOULD Do
1.Grab attention
2.Introduce The characters
3.Be unique
4.Make It Memorable
5.Set the mood for the film

What The Opening SHOULDN'T Do
1.Be too long
2.Just the title
3.Give away the whole story
4.Be unrelated to the main film
5.Confuse the audience with too many Characters

Continuity piece

This is our Preliminary Exercise; this required us to make a continuity sequence before beginning our main piece of Media coursework. As a group we tried several attempts at a continuity sequence and, unfortunately they didn’t meet the criteria that the continuity sequence's need to have. Finally we made one that did, this was our best attempt. We wanted to make our piece original and we think we have achieved this, after a few original but terrible attempts.