Representation

Teen films we used as inspiration for our opening sequence...

High School Musical

High School Musical is a 2006 American teen/romantic comedy musical. 

Male: represented as athletic jocks who stick to the status quo. However, towards the end of the film they break away from their typical representations and become their own person.  

Female: represented as being very intelligent but who also follow the status quo. They also break out of their typical representations and become what they want to be. 

American Pie

American Pie is a 1999 teen sex comedy. 

Male: represented as weird group of loaners trying to out do each other.    

Female: represented as a goal and not actual people. Women are objectified and seen as sexual tools. There are only a select few female characters in this film that are given names, storylines and essentially personalities such as: Michelle, Heather and Victoria. However, the majority of the women in this film are not given names or a role in the film.

Superbad

Superbad is a 2007 American teen comedy film.
Male: represented as a pair of weird, sexually frustrated friends who trying to make a name for themselves at school.
Female: represented as sexual objects and are not really given a role in the film.

Storyboard and timeline

Our Storyboard

Below this is our storyboard which highlights in which order all the scenes  will come in and what will be included in each shot. This will help us to keep on track with our filming and ensure that every scene is correct. The storyboard also contains the shots that will be included in each scene.

Napoleon Dynamite Timeline

And then this is our timeline of all the names and what times they appear during the opening scene of Napoleon dynamite. This is a film opening which is very similar to our title scene, so this will be very useful. This is because it will help us to order our titles in the correct order and so that the titles flow like other films that we have researched.

Target Audience

PRIMARY: Teenagers

Gender: Female
Age: 14
Favourite Films: Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, Bring It On and Clueless. 
Interests: Watching films and television, reading, playing netball and other sports and shopping. 
Why would she go and watch our film: She loves teen comedies and classic coming of age films. She is a big film fan and so enjoys going to the cinema and watching new films. She also has a whole range of interests so she can relate to each one of the characters in our film, thus making her more likely to watch it. 

SECONDARY: Parents

Gender: Female
Age: 30+
Favourite Films: Thelma and Louise, Beaches, Back to the Future and Sixteen Candles.
Interests: Reading, spending time with her children and watching movies. 
Why would she go and watch our film: Because if she has teenage children, then she will have to accompany them to our film as it is a 12A. She herself loves watching films, especially 80s/90s teenage comedies.

Our primary audience is teenagers between the ages of 12 and 19. This is because our film features both 11/12 year olds and 16/17 year olds thus making it easy for teenagers to relate to our characters and our narrative. 
Our secondary audience is parents of teenage children because they will have to accompany their children to our movie as it has BBFC classification of 12A. We believe they will also want to go watch our film as it follows a similar narrative to classic teenage films that were released during the 1980s/90s such as: The Goonies, Stand By Me and Now and Then.

Moodboard

This is a visual mood board that displays the inspirations for our film and films that we consider to be similar.  

Marketing of our film

We have done lots of research on how other low budget films like our own film can be marketed with a low budget.

Strategy 1: Social media sites 
Social media sites are used for low budget films to market their film because it is free an because so many people now use social media in their everyday life.

Strategy 2: YouTube pop ups
This costs a small fee to advertise films on YouTube but is a very effective way because you can specify what sort of video you want your pop up to be viewed on which means your marketing automatically is shown to your implied audience.

Strategy 3: Vine 
A vine is a very effective way for a low budget film for marketing a film, because it is free to do and can be distributed all around the world using the internet.

Strategy 4: Blogs
Blogs are free to make and you can add lots of detail to the blog but you can not do this on other types of promoting like a poster. But it is not easily accessed, so is hard to get a large audience to see the blog.


Strategy 5: Street marketing
Low budget film companies can take to the street, to leaflet and promote their film because it is cheaper than other marketing strategies like TV and radio adverts. But it does cost to print off the leaflets and for the wages of the staff who are promoting the film.




I found thisof a website stating about what low budget films can do to market their film sucessfully. So that the film is well known and people aware what our film is about.

Risk assessment

This is our groups risk assessment...

Film name ideas

As a group we have struggled to come up with a name for our film and so today we sat down as a group and brainstormed some ideas. Below is a list of the names that we collectively came up with:

- In bloom
- Then and now
- Outnumbered
- Fools
-When we were young
- Connect 4
- Gherkins
- Blind faith
- Out of the black
- Good times
- Good girls, bad girls
- Wannabe
- 5 second rule
- The Outsiders
- The normal ones

The film name that we decided which fit our film plot and theme the best was 'Connect 4'. This is because it is a board game and is fun and playful, which will appeal to our implied audience of 12+ years plus.

We are hoping to include a small song in our film opening as well as other uses of sound and dialogue. These are the possible options we have found for songs that will feature in our opening:

We also choose this song because it has no copyright on it,this means that we will not get penalized for copying a song of youtube.