Fish out of the water movie idea

A fish out of the water movie is a film in which the main character is put out of their comfort zone. For example many Adam Sandler films employ this idea. A great example of an Adam Sandler fish out of water movie would be Big Daddy. This is because his character is an irresponsible man who has no responsibilities. He is then made to look after a young child. Hence making it a fish out of water movie.

Our favourite idea we came up with was a romantic comedy about a male boxer called Joe who falls in love with a ballerina called Chloe. The basic plot summary is that Joe meets a girl named Chloe in a local bar. They instantly fall for each other and everything is going so well. This is until Chloe who hates with a passion boxing finds out that Joe is a boxer.  She then says to Joe that she will only continue to see him if he tries out ballet for a month. Joe agrees to do so, only at the exception that she tries out boxing for a month. They both agree to do so. And obviously with this there causes many arguments and controversies which makes up the plot for the movie.

As seen below is the basic film poster we created for the movie on Photoshop.

Conflict is a great way to generate an idea for a movie because it can be a great way to cause drama and intensity. As well as making great comedy. This is because there are hundreds of different scenarios which can be built into bigger story arcs and narratives.

One of the two film posters which we researched that inspired our film idea poster was Billy Elliot. This is because the poster

includes a load of girls wearing ballet outfits and then a boy stuck in the middle looking out of place wearing boxing gear. This inspired our film poster and the actual narrative surrounding the film. The other film poster which loosely inspired me was The Fighter film poster. This is because of the boxer played by Mark Wahlberg who is seen clearly on the poster. This is very engaging and shows the clear genre of the film, henceforth helping us to make the decision to put the character Joe on the poster with boxing gloves mixing in the ballet side as well which was inspired from the Billy Elliot poster.

In evaluation of our poster design. I am fairly happy with the outcome and I am happy with the composition of images and text. The only thing which I am not happy about in the poster is the amount of empty space which fills the page. This all comes down to the lack of time we had and if we had longer we would definitely have filled all the empty space up.