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Audience Research

From the research I did on the UK exit poll, it is clear that films in the urban youth drama genre such as ‘Adulthood’, ‘This is England’ and ‘Fish Tank’, are currently very popular amongst 16-24 year olds. This age range is also our proposed target audience age range.

To further our research, we asked people aged 16-24 what they thought about urban youth dramas:

Person 1

"I think urban youth dramas are really good because they show another side of life, often Hollywood films are all glitz and glamour but for most people that’s not what life is really like. I’m not saying my life is like those portrayed in these types of films but it can sometimes be similar."

Person 2

"Youth drama can be realistic but can also be exaggerated, as it often stereotypes teenagers quite negatively. However, I quite enjoy watching them as I can also relate to the storylines, which I find entertaining."

Person 3

"I think British urban genre is a good genre of film as it gives other people an insight into the lifestyles of some youths, however, it does portray people in a bad light."

Research - Film Magazines

 

 

Sequence Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tainted script

 

Tainted – By Rochelle, Eve and Noha

Scene 1

EXT. DAY. OUTSIDE

Music starts, plays along establishing shots of the city

Scene 2

INT. DAY. CLASSROOM

The main character (NICOLE) is speaking to her close friend

NICOLE: I’m really worried; my mum’s drinking is getting really out of hand.

FRIEND: I’m sure it’s not that bad

NICOLE: You don’t understand.

Scene 3

EXT. DAY. OUTSIDE (OF SCHOOL)

Two girls are walking out of school (NICOLE and CLOSE FRIEND) out of the gate. An old friend (RAMONE) is leaning against a gate outside and calls them over.

RAMONE: YO B

NICOLE: Where’ve you been since you got kicked out?

RAMONE: Just been hustlin’, here’s my number. Link me at this party tonight.

Nicole: Hmm I’ll think about it, see you ‘round

Scene 4

EXT. DAY. OUTSIDE

NICOLE is walking home from school, music plays alongside.

Scene 5

INT. DAY. AT HOME

NICOLE arrives home and has a heated exchange with her MUM

NICOLE: I’m home

*silence

NICOLE: What are you doing?

MUM – slurred speech, drunk: Did you get your brother and sister from school?

NICOLE: They’re not my kids

MUM shouts something at NICOLE and throws something at NICOLE

INT. DAY. AT HOME

NICOLE goes up stairs to her room and texts RAMONE, then goes back downstairs to her MUM

MUM: Where you goin’?

NICOLE: OUT!

Nicole leaves and slams door behind her

Scene 6

EXT. DUSK. OUTSIDE UNDER BRIDGE

NICOLE goes to meet RAMONE under a bridge

RAMONE: ‘Sup, B

NICOLE: Where we going?

RAMONE: I’ll look after you

Then they walk away

Scene 7

INT. NIGHT. HOUSE

NICOLE and RAMONE walk in to a house where there’s a party going on, with people taking drugs and drinking. Nicole gets led into drinking and taking drugs, by RAMONE. Party music is playing

INT. DAY. HOUSE

It’s the morning after the night before, NICOLE is passed out and LIAM is trying to wake her

LIAM (frantically): Wake up! C’mon Nicole! Wake up!

NICOLE: Oh god!

Scene 8

INT. NIGHT. DRAMA STUDIO

There’s a party going on NICOLE gets really drunk and stumbles into a toilet to take cocaine, loud music is playing

Scene 9

EXT. NIGHT. STREET

RAMONE is giving drugs to NICOLE

RAMONE: I need my money!

NICOLE: I’ll sort something!

                                        

Scene 10

EXT. DAY. INSIDE SHOP

NICOLE is looking suspiciously around the shop. She steals money from the tills whilst the shopkeepers back is turned

Scene 11

EXT. DAY. STREET

NICOLE is running down a street looking suspicious, sounds of heavy breathing and amplified heartbeat can be heard. RAMONE grabs her from behind

RAMONE: I need my money, bitch!

NICOLE: screams

EXT. DAY. STREET

LIAM runs up and punches RAMONE in the face. They fight a little with NICOLE frantically screaming and crying in the background

Scene 12

INT. DAY. BEDROOM

Music changes, NICOLE is half naked in a bed, and crying silently. MAN stands up, and does up his trousers.

INT. DAY. BEDROOM

NICOLE is half naked in a bed, and crying silently. MAN throws  some money behind him on the bed

Scene 13

INT. DAY. BEDROOM

NICOLE is crying whilst rummaging frantically through draws looking for pills.

Scene 14

INT. DAY. BATHROOM

NICOLE steps into a bathtub fully clothed

INT. DAY. BATHROOM

LIAM in running frantically up the stairs and bursts into the bathroom with a horrified look on his face.

THE END

Research - Film Trailers

 

I looked at similar trailers to our proposed idea for research. One of the film trailers I looked at was 'AdULTHOOD'. This film fits under the category of urban youth drama and addresses similar themes we aim to look at, such as sex, drug abuse and violence. The 'AdULTHOOD' film trailer gave us useful ideas of things to include in our trailer, such as party scenes, which we feel will help portray youth culture.

 

Another film trailer we looked at was 'Fish Tank', the storyline of this film is similar to that of our proposed idea, as it is a bildugsroman (coming of age) story and depicts a pivotal point in a young girls life, which is what we a hoping to portray in our film trailer. this is similar to AdULTHOOD as it also addresses themes such as drug abuse, sex and violence. However this film differs to AdULTHOOD, because as it follows the story of a one female character, whereas Adulthood looks at many different characters lives which interlink, and the main character is a male. We want the man focus of our trailer to be on one female character as there are currently not many urban youth drama films that do this.

 

I like the 'This Is England' film trailer as it uses a variety of different shots, and also because they use film footage which is not from the actual film, but is useful in portraying to a modern audience, what it was like in the time the film was set. This could be an interesting idea to try to recreate in our film trailer, but may not be applicable as our film is set in the present day, and so an audience watching would be able to relate to what is going on, and also we want all the footage included in our trailer to be our own.

From looking at these film trailers with similar genres to our proposed film, it is clear to see the codes and conventions which are used.  

Podcast

We created a podcast which outlined the specific features of what 'drama' and 'youth drama' films include, for example, films that are classed as being dramas tend to focus on realistic characters dealing with often hard-hitting and emotional themes. Urban youth dramas are becoming increasingly popular and often contain themes centered around sex, drugs and violence. 

This podcast will be useful when it comes to making our film trailer as we will have more guidelines to work from, and will know what features to include to make the genre of our film trailer easily identifiable.

  

Proposal

 

We were given the brief to create a teaser trailer, a film magazine front cover and a poster for a film that we have proposed. The genre we have decided to use is drama, mainly the sub-genre of urban-youth drama. The main elements of this genre are anti- social behaviour such as violence, sex and drug abuse. These elements are to create a representation of British youth. Our USP will be that our previous film won the BAFTA for outstanding British film award.

The UK Film Council carried out an exit poll on people who had watched ‘KiDULTHOOD’, they questioned 211 people and found that 158 were under 25, this equates to 74%. 42% of people that watched it were male leaving 58% who were female. We looked at the exit poll of ‘KiDULTHOOD’ as it in in the same genre of our proposed film, and uses similar codes and conventions that we shall use in ours. We looked at other films in the same genre and found a similar trend; Adulthood, out of 157 surveyed, 86 were female and 83 were aged between 18 and 24; 4.3.2.1, out of 130 people surveyed, 72 were male and 73 were under 25; Ill manors, out of 96 people surveyed 56% were male and 52% were under 25. We also looked at the film ‘This is England’, this film represented British youth of the 80’s. The representations that we found were aspects of anti-social behaviour; racism, swearing & violence. It showed the youth having a lack of respect toward authority figures. We also looked at the film ‘Fish Tank’; it is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) and also a British drama film. This can relate to our proposed film as it shows the events at a pivotal point in our young protagonist’s life. 

Our proposed idea meets the brief as we are going to create a teaser trailer, a film magazine front cover and a poster. Urban youth dramas are becoming increasingly popular as there has been a recent focus on modern youth culture especially because of the media for example, the riots. Because of this, we believe our idea would fit into the current market.

Our goal is to create a teaser trailer, a film magazine front cover and a poster for our youth drama film. Our film is for a target audience of 16-24 year olds. We need to complete this by Friday the 14^th of December.

Synopsis

Our film follows the story of Nicole, a 15 year old girl that is swept into a life of sex, crime and drugs, after her mum’s alcohol addiction spirals out of control, Nicole finds solace in local bad boy, Ramone. He introduces her to drugs and she uses this as a way to escape from her traumatic past. Her drug addiction leads to her skipping school to shoplifting; her addiction gets worse so she turns to Ramone for help. However he persuades her to have sex with him and his friends for drug money. One of his friends, Liam falls for Nicole as he sees past her troubled life style and wants to help her. Nicole feels she is in too deep and decides to end it all. The film ends with her over dosing on drugs and sinking into a bath of water as Liam races to her rescue. But is it too late?

The main obstacles our project will face are location and timing. We can overcome the problem of location by doing a full recce of any location we’d like to use. As for timing we will organise ourselves accurately and make sure we finish on time.  We have also taken into consideration night filming as we feel the film will need a dark atmosphere to suit the genre. Since we are filming in autumn/winter months, we know that it will be darker earlier; however we can use this to our advantage because it means we can film darker scenes in times more convenient for us. We will also take into consideration any health and safety issues and make sure this does not pose any risk towards our actors or filming.

Our schedule is to have completed our first draft by the 14^thof December, and to have our final draft completed by the 27^th of March.

Resources we will need:

Actors, we have 3 main protagonists and estimate about 5-7 minor actors

A house

Stereotypical ‘street’ clothing

A car

Miscellaneous props such as drinks bottles, drugs, money et/c.