Group Members
Our group has four members; Josephine, Terry, Duane and Me. Josephine, Terry and Me will be doing the acting and on of us will film when not acting. Duane will be doing the editing and making of soundtrack.
Content Overview
The film follow the life’s of to young south London teenagers trying to find a way to escape their lifestyle but are really leading themselves to their death. Josephine is a 17 year old mum who struggles to control being a mum, a student and a broke drug addict. As she tries to quit the addiction she finds herself get more addicted which makes her loose everything she has. She is wanted by her abusive ex boyfriend, who is her drug dealer because he wants his money.Terry is also 17 years old trying to make something of his life but finds himself confined to selling drugs on a estate but there are other dealers who want to see him dead so he starts to carry weapons. When he gets to a dead end he realizes that “Bad boys don’t have to stay bad forever” and changes his life proving society wrong that teenagers can change.
Josephine and terry fall in love. Terry tries to get Josephine out of the trouble she is in and get her child back but this just makes Josephine ex boyfriend, Terry’s enemy mad. Terry gets killed and Josephine escapes.
Target Audience
Our target audience is both male and female teenagers from different backgrounds, different likes and dislikes because every teenager knows about the drug dealers, gangs, weapons and killings whether it is from seen on the news or in real life. The film includes everything that is happening in real life from selling drugs on an estate to robbing teenagers on the streets for no reason. Every teenager knows about what goes on, on the streets that they live on especially if they live in London.
Research
In researching for our opening we looked at films and programs that are dramas and are targeted at teenagers. From this research we were able to see what type of things interests and attract teenagers to the program/ movie. It then gave us an idea of what are opening was going to include to make our film exciting and an attractable opening. Also from watching mainly dramas we was able to see what conventions a drama has, that we need to include. Our main influence was Kidulthood.
How will we check the movies success
To see if our opening is a success we will show it to the class and a fewer friends to see if they would watch this film. We expect that we will get a positives and negatives, which we want so that we will be able to improve our film to make sure that we attract as much of our target audience as we can. After we have improved the film opening we will re-show it and see what the audiences think about it, this way we make sure that our opening will be the best it can be and the way the audience wants it.
Conventions of a drama:
- Serious
- Realistic character
- Realistic settings
- Real life situations
- Plot driven
- Development of characters
The problems that we may encounter:
- Not all of us are based at one site so we will not be able to meet during breaks to discuss and work on our films
- We will only have certain days which we can film because of other subjects which may cause a problem because other people may need to use the cameras on days that we are free to us
- We will not be able to take the HD camera off school site
- We will need a lot of help with using Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects as we have never used them before.
