Construction - Final

Preliminary Task - Continuity Excercise by Jess Towler & Jack Mitchell.

Location Photos

For our movie opening we used an alley way near college, it is quite run down and has a lot of litter down it, we used it because we thought it would go well with the theme of our movie and it is close to college so it would be easy to do the filming from the alley way to the front of college. The alley way worked well as it gave us alot of options for shots even though it is narrow, and the litter in the alley made up of mainly old, used cigarette packets and old cider cans scattered around worked as a sort of mise-en-scene as it helped make the alley way look the way we wanted it too, we didnt need to do this as it was already there. These photos were taken after filming as we had to change location because of the weather.

Jack's opinion;

Although our brief, was too do a "teen film" i feel that out film, has become a bit dark, the dark and dingy weather does not help. Also Jenny's clothing and makeup. the "Skank" look does not really fit in with the genre. Although she appears too be worse for wear and smoking, like many teenagers are after a night out, i feel that her distinct lack of clothing, and the fact that she is going into college, does not fit the genre of the film. I think for it too fit the brief, Jenny should of chosen different clothes, and if there wasn't a time restraint on filming, maybe we could of used a brighter day too not make it look so dark.

Story Board.

This is our story board. Descriptions of 

each slide is in the picture.

Audience profile;

When making a film, audience is an essential feature, if not the important. Without a defined audience, the film would become wild and unruly. If an audience is selected, then the film has a purpose; someone to direct it at. There are different class systems within the audience;


GradeOccupation

A- Higher managerial, administrative or professional

B- Intermediate managerial, administrative or profession

C1- Supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2- Skilled manual workers

D- Semi and unskilled manual workers

E- Casual or lowest grade workers, pensioners and others who depend on the state for their income


When making a film directors will focus on a certain "class" to aim their product at.
Our film is aimed at teenagers, we want it too be as real too life as possible. So we are gonna try too include things that we do, for example smoking, partying and drinkin


When researching stereotypical teenagers we found this from many websites; As this appears too be our audience we shall try and make it realistic and as close too this as possible.
Raging hormones.
Anyone over 30 really sucks.
Knows everything there is to know.
Wants Instant gratification with no regard to consequences.
Rebellious toward parents and anyone of authority.
Very untidy room and grubby clothes.
Talks in monosyllables.
Always look like they're pouting.
Tries oh-so-hard to be "cool."
Walks in a slouch while constantly texting or wearing phones.
No regard for other human beings other than his/her "crowd."
Constant sex drive
Risk and care free
Experimental (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100415180530AABpfXz)

Research into Potential Target Audience;

In media it is common to refer to a hypothetical member of the target audience. 
For example; 
Mischa: She is a 17 year old college student of black British ethnicity, that lives with her Dad in Bristol, that enjoying going to concerts, hanging out with her friends, going to parties, going to town, drinking and following fashion. At parties and in her spare time she tends to listen to music that is in the charts, dubstep and drum and bass. She generally watches e4 as it appeals to her age group, some of the shows that are shown are; Skins, The Inbetweeners, The Big Bang Therory, Shipwrecked, Misfits etc, this all falls under the 'Teen' genre. 
Aaron: He is a 16 year old school drop out of white British ethnicity, who is unemployed and lives with his parents in Liverpool. In his spare time he likes to go down the skatepark with his friends, he also likes to play xbox and occasionally smokes cannabis. He listens to alternative rock and indie music. He doesn't tend to watch much t.v except for Skins and the occasional episode of Friends, but he mainly watches films such as Kidulthood and other 'Teen' films. 
We think that these are the type of people that would watch our film because they are in the age range of 15-24 as this is our target audience age range. Our movie would probably have the same type of audience as skins has as the target audience is about the same, according to the British Film Institute(BFI) statistical yearbook, the gender split of films with a similar genre to Skins in 2011 was 53% girls and 47% boys, this shows that girls tend to watch it more, but not by very much.

Group analysis of a title sequence: Juno.

Juno title sequence;

This is the Juno title sequence, the animation used throughout the title sequence could show that the main character that is shown throughout, is still a child and by showing this, the film is likely to be facing that fact. The colours used are all pastel colours, which once again show that she is still a child and shows her childish side with the animations used. She is drinking 'Sunny D' and it is typically a child's drink, and the fact that she is drinking it out of the bottle shows that she is rebellious towards the fact that she is a child and shows that she wants to grow up, but by using the 'Sunny D' she is still firmly in that frame of mind.

Iconography Collage.

This is our Iconography collage, it is lots of pictures/ images which we think represent our films genre, "teen comedy/drama".

Certain things which seem too crop up constantly in our genre of films are;

• Alcohol; The teens are often drunk, or on the quest for alcohol.
• Smoking; Teens often always have cigarettes in their hands in the films.
• Sex; They are often on the quest for sex, or are having sex in the films.
• Social Networking; There is use of phones/internet in the films.
• Gossiping; There is always bitching, or gossip in these sort of films

• Drugs; The teens are often stoned or high on some sort of drug in this genre of film.
• Music; Loud banging "dubstep" tunes.
• Bright Vibrant colours; A loud colour scheme.
• Fights; Nearly always a physical fight occurs.

By Jack Mitchell

Director Research.

John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Beethoven, Uncle Buck, Career Opportunities, 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone, and its sequels, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone 3.

His most famous Teen film, was; The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama film written and directed by John HughesThe storyline follows five teenagers (each a member of a different high school clique) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes.By Jack Mitchell