The genre of our film is a sport drama. The film is based on two main characters who knew each other as aspiring young footballers but grew apart as their life paths slowly differed. Josh (one of the main characters) is brought up in a rough area who only dreams of becoming the player Callum is and so feels he is an underachiever, whereas Callum (the other main character) goes on to become a promising youth player at Manchester City with the lifestyle every seventeen year old wishes for. Such differences in lifestyle between the two characters could lead to Josh's resentment of Callum. A film fairly similar to ours based on the genre is Trading Places. This film is very similar, especially the opening scenes as it is also about two people who live opposite lifestyles.
Location
The location of our film is at the City of Manchester Stadium. This suits our film well as this is the home of Callum's football but the devil of Josh's dreams. If the location was at a rough football park, it would not flow with the theme of the film as this would be more suited to Josh's lifestyle. We wanted to emphasise on the possibilities of Callum's future. 'Goal!' is a film which also focuses on an aspiring footballers dream and sees him playing for Newcastle United after climbing through the ranks at the envy of friends and team mates. Therefore this film is very similar to ours in that sense as he grew up with friends that had the same dream as he did. The only difference being only one person from each film became successful. 
The Opening Shots
The opening shots to our film clip our consisted of the use of old VCR footage of Josh and Callum playing their beloved sport, football, from when they were much younger. This is used to establish the genre of the film. A movie which is very similar in this aspect is Happy Gilmore. In this Sport/Comedy, the opening scenes are of Happy (the main character) playing hockey as a youngster. Although in this film his future eventually ventures into golf, the old video footage still represents the dream of taking a sport further.
Below is a viewers take on the opening scene of happy gilmore. If you listen to what he says his comments are that of what we would want our film to show. He comments on the good music, authentic vcr footage that shows the backstory of happy's life.
We tried to replicate this in our film, we have authentic vcr footage of callum and josh. We also made our own soundtrack through garage band.
Title of Film
The title of our film is Blue Moon and so part of our title is in blue. This is relevant because Manchester City's kit and stadium is blue and have strongly been related to the colour throughout there history therefore it is only right that we express this in our title. Another film which also uses this feature is the movie 'Red'. The film has no relation to ours other than this feature as 'Red' is about a man who takes revenge on the killers of his innocent dog. Even so, the red colour of the title is relevant as 'Red' was also the name of his murdered dog. Both film titles then relate to the plot of the story and so are relevantly applied.
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