Survey and Results

The main reason why we wanted to do our survey was to define our target audience and do some primary research than reading other peoples which may not have answered all of our questions. As we only had a limited amout of people we could do to get the survey, all of the people who filled it in was in Dunraven. This however was not such a bad thing becuase they are they age group we want to watch our teen film. From the answers we were able to learn that:

• The majority of an audience at a teen film is female
• The majority are aged between 14-16
• All of the audience went to 6th Form/College
• The majority of the audience either liked watching teen films or didn't mind
• The majority prefer teen films mixed with Comedy/Romance
• They had all seen between 10-50 teen films
• They go to see films because of the actors/actresses starring in it

Our locations, actors,actress and how they relate to the genre

Locations
There where many factors that we had to take into consideration when we where chosing our loactions becuase many problems could arise while we where going to film. Some of these problems were: did we need to get permission to film? The weather conditions, if we are filiming outside. Does it fit with the genre of our film ?
The location that we are going to use in our film opening is a park, which is tooting triangle. We have decided to use this location, because it is a stereotypical location where teenagers would hang out. The location of the park is broken up into to pieces, There is a playground,massive green area, and a soil pitch. The only part of this location we are going to use is the green grass area. Some of the reasons we chose this location was becuase:

• It was easy for all of our group and cast to get too.
• All of the group had been to the location before and had all thought that it would be a good location.
• We wouldnt need to rely on the weather as long as it wasnt raining or snowing then we would be able to film.

Casting

The actors and actresses we are going to use in our film opening will be all teenagers to go with the genre of teen film. The casting we will have will be a few girls girls and few boys to make up our groups. The main actress will be Alexa, as she is casted stereotypically beautiful, and has blonde hair. The other casted girls will not be ugly but not better looking than the main character, we will do this by making the main characters costome to stand out more

than the others to make her look more attractive.

Ideas

These photos are of our brainstorm which we made to think of initial ideas for our Teen Film. We thought about certain areas such as conventions, techniques and film openings we could look at in our genre.

Research film 1

We are researching the opening credits to teen films. The first teen film I am looking at is Juno. It starts of with the production company logo fading into the image of “Juno” walking. Non-diegetic music is playing in the background. People are running past her and are not taking any notice of her and when she walks behind the tree there is a transition into a cartoon. Were she enters a cartoon land and then the opening titles start coming up.

Mood Board!

This is our mood board which is based on the genre of our film. 

Entry Two : Conventions and stereotypes of teen films

There are many conventions of teen films; they can be technical or stereotypical. From a technical view, some techniques that are used in teen films could be to do with the mise-en-scene. For example the main locations used are usually “clean and high achieving” high schools. Other locations would usually be the bedroom of the character, shopping centre or parks. The casting of teen films is usually different to what they appear to be. By this I mean that they cast are actually older than their character but made to look younger. This is done so that the cast do not have any of the signs or growing up, like having bad spots or the boy’s voice breaking. From a stereotypical point of view, there are 5 main stereotypes,

• The pretty girl/bitch
• Jock,
• Nerd,
• The best friend of the main character and
• The parents

The Jock

The pretty blonde

The Nerd

From a technical view point, the camera will normally move quite slowly, and during the editing process use slow cuts and fades/dissolves.

Other very sucessful teen films that have made us wanted to film in this genre are :

• 10 things i hate about you
• Angus thongs and perfect snogging
• High school musical
• Mean girls
• Super bad
• St trinains
  

Entry One: Our Plans

Our Plans for now are :
Our film is going to be targeted at teenagers.
It is going to be based in tooting triangle.
Possible Actors : Alexa, Anthony, Lee
Convensions used in teen films:
-Stereotype of pretty girl, jock and nerds
-High school or teenage hangout areas
-Use slow cuts and fades
Non diegetic music
Our target audience is 15+
Mainly targeted at teenage girls
Aimed at sterotypical girls, not tomboys.