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My short film is a hybrid of a typical Rom Com, boy meets girl story line but using the conventions more associated with an Art House genre.
FLUFF
RESTLESS: 2011
fluff
THE UGLY TRUTH 2010
ART HOUSE CONVENTIONS....
Fluff uses a small cast of four -Very Art House Fluff uses only a few conventions- Very Art House
• An Art Film aims at reaching a niche audience rather than a mass market.
• Often a serious piece of work not intended for wide appeal.
• The principle intention is aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit.
• Contains unconventional or highly symbolic content.
The ‘helper’ role identified by Vladimir Prop, most stories, features a helper who supports the main character.
Typically this convention is used in ‘rom coms’.
In Definitely, Maybe, the main protagonist has his child as the ‘helper.’
‘The helper’....
Fluff’s helper: the mystic
Rom Com Conventions.....
EQUILIBRIUM DISEQUILIBRIUM NEW EQUILIBRIUM
Bridget Jones starts quite contented...
DISEQUILIBRIUMHugh Grant as antagonist causes conflict..
Happy Ever After
EQUILIBRIUM
NEW EQUILIBRIUM
CHILLEDTHE BLOW
PRETTY DARN GOOD
stories always start normal, get disrupted and then get sorted and return to normal, well usually.
Tzvetan Todorov
challenging Todorov....
Protagonist starts film unhappy
High point in the middle of the story....
BUT ENDS WITH THE TRAGIC REALISATION- HE CANNOT FEND FOR HIS CHILD
Art House films often challenge this convention. For example:
Girl VS Boy
Binary Opposites in fluff
Levi Straussʼ theory on Binary Opposites occurs right from the outset of my film. The boy wants romance
And she really doesnʼt.............
BATHE’S CODES...
Alash the mystical character gives Noah advice in Fluff
The enigma/ Brother Bear talking to mystical ghost elephants
CODE: E N I G M A MAKE THE AUDIENCE CURIOUS KEEP THEM WANTING TO WATCH
Fluff’s intentions....
A POST MODERN ROM COM
The characters in a ʻrom comʼ tend to be familiar ʻstockʼ characters, where as in my film, the protagonist as well as the supporting cast are not really that clearly defined. Their facial
expressions and verbal responses lean more towards Art House.
My film was inspired my a small budget short, ‘The Plan’ where the main character falls out of love with his girlfriend but finds new love whilst on a road trip.....
INSPIRATION....
WITH MOMENTS OF NOTTING HILL.....
THE PLAN
HUGH ON HIS QUEST
NOAH ON HIS
NEW LOVE INTEREST
NOAHʼS NEW LOVE INTEREST