Story Line & Script

Along Came Billy

20^th century fox – AS Media

Goes on dates in the beginning, throws them out because they say something wrong.

First: crying over ex girlfriend e.g.

Emily “You want a glass of water?”

Guy “THAT’S WHAT SHE ALWAYS ORDERED!” sobbing

Second: clingy-

Emily “It’s not gonna work out,”

Guy “What? No! Baby! I had the kids names planned and everything!”

Goes to café and friend tries to hook her and her friend up again, Emily refuses goes to walk out, gets something spilt down her. Either way, she bumps into Billy. Ends there?

Inspirational films;

The break-up

Just go with it

Costumes; 
Emily: two different types of date wear, and normal clothes for when in coffee shop
Date guys: something they'd wear on a date.
Chloe: day wear for when she's at the coffee shop.
Billy: day wear for when he's at the coffee shop.

Locations:
First date: Emily's kitchen - midday or evening
Second date: Set in park (not too sure which park yet, may be Gillingham park or Woodlands) - midday
Coffee meet-up: a cafe in Gillingham high-street or Chatham. - midday 

Camera angles-

Shot reverse shot

180 degree

Close ups

Target audience-
Our target audience would be young adults, teens and mainly females; seeing as males may not be as in to rom-coms as females are. 

Script

Emily (Voice over): I’ve always been unlucky in-love, and I guess this time wasn’t any different even if friends try to set me on dates. Sometimes the guys make it to the second date… and some don’t.

-Listen in on date, Emily and dude are laughing

Emily: Ha-ha, do you want a glass of water?

Guy 1: (starts getting emotional) that’s what she always ordered!

Emily stands there, freaked out not knowing what to do. FF to next date

Guy 2 knocks on door with bouquet of flowers, Emily answers, guy tries to keep making moves on Emily throughout the date, and she gets freaked out and runs off eventually.

Voice over: So this guy, he seems promising. It’s my fourth date with him and he’s done nothing to put me off of him, so far.

-Date is on going with non-diegetic music in the background-

Pulls out strawberries and feeds them to Emily. Waits until she’s eating them and then pulls out a book of baby names and wedding ring

Guy 2: So, which one first baby? –Wriggling his eyebrows-

Emily runs off, choking on the strawberry

Voice over: as you can see, it didn’t work out

Next day, at a coffee shop with Chloe

Chloe: this one last guy, I swear, he’s not that bad! Plus, he’s meeting us here!

Emily: No, no, no, I can’t be dealing with another one of your whack-job friends!

Chloe: Bu-

Emily cuts Chloe off by getting up and running into Bill, him spilling coffee or something on Emily

Billy: Oh my God! I’m so sorry!

Emily: O-oh, it’s okay. It’s not you; I’m just bad luck.

Chloe: And Along Came Billy! This is the “whack-job” I wanted you to meet!

Emily: Thanks for that, Chloe.

Billy: I don’t know; seeing as my coffee is gone, want to come with me to get more?

Emily smiles and nods and walks out of the coffee shop.

Romance Poster - Media Starter

This is the poster that I designed for one of our starter tasks. The teacher gave us separate pieces of paper with individual genres on it. Originally, I got Action, I think. I decided I couldn't do this because I couldn't really think about anything to do with Action movies. Stupid, I know. So I asked the teacher if I could change it, and she agreed, thus me being left with Romance.

I chose Emma Stone as one of my main characters because, basically, I think she's an amazing actress. I think my favourite films with her in are Easy A and House bunny. I also think she's really pretty, too.
I also chose Chris Evans because I've recently watched a film with him in and thought it was pretty great. The film was What's Your Number? There's also another film he's in, which I think is hilarious. It's kind of required to have a weird sense of humour to watch it, in my point of view. It's called Not Another Teen Movie. (I also think he's quite attractive, too.)

Genre Change

First of all, we (Me, Emily, Kayleigh and Blessing) decided to do a romance/drama type of opening. we then thought it would be that little bit more harder to construct. Whereas Emily was the main character, we thought it would be hard for her to burst into tears; and she thought the same. So we decided to change it into a Rom-Com.

Here are our original ideas for what we were going to be doing initially:

Media opening plans

Casting:

·      Andrew – Billy (Emily's boyfriend)

·      Isabelle – Emily

Plot:

·      Emily and Billy argue in the kitchen about Billy always working/never home, doesn’t pay Emily much attention because he’s always too focused on work – late for an anniversary dinner.

·      He says something wrong.

·      She slaps him, and he walks out after she runs after him, apologising. Emily collapses by the door in tears.

·      Flash backs begin to their first kiss.

Setting:

·      Emily’s kitchen

·      Emily’s back garden/ maybe Gillingham Park.

Costumes:

·      Billy:

-       Slap scene; work uniform (shirt, tie, trousers)

-       Date scene; Causal clothes

·      Emily:

-       Slap scene; formal clothing

-       Date scene; Casual clothes

Camera angles

- 180 degrees
- Close ups
- Shot reverse shot