Influences: Part 1

In your planning where did you take some inspiration from and how did this become realised in your final productions. Include some snips and analyse in detail.

Prior to creating Marmalady, we had researched into our chosen "Coming of Age" genre, and watched many trailers and full length films. A huge inspiration to Marmalady was "The Edge of Seventeen" of which we took influence from the overall concept of the protagonist finding herself, getting into a fight with her bestfriend, and the aspect of a love interest. The trailer helped us decide that narration would help put the trailer together, as it was a good way of creating a relationship between the audience and protagonist, additionally creating both sympathy and empathy. We also picked out the scene where the protagonist in "The Edge of Seventeen" is shown as a thirteen year old with pimples and a perm, we took this into account by having Lola in curlers and a dressing gown in the second to last scene.

The Kings of Summer was also a huge influence to the making of Marmalady, as we wanted to progress the summer independence atmosphere through our summer montage. We also replicated a scene that showed the three characters creating a beat in the woods on a large pipe, however we decided not to follow through with a sub-story between the best-friend and protagonist, but focus it primarily on the love interest. However, we did take into account the atmospheric display of sound, so the upbeat and playful soundtrack helped create Marmalady. Another aspect to The Kings of Summer was the humour and comedy in the trailer, there is a scene where the music cuts out and actor "Nick Offerman" sticks to what he's famous for and sarcastically says a joke, this is where the audience would laugh, and this is replicated in our wardrobe change scene.