Lauren, Bilal, Emmanuel, Tacia

1. Pitch Presentation
Lauren Cole, Bilal Hassan, Emmanuel
Adewumi, Tacia Carvalho

2. Brief
• We were asked to produce a 2 minute
introduction to a film with a title.
Bilal

3. Genre
• The genre we decided to do was Teen Drama
• We decided this because we can relate to the
age, what people go through at this age, if
they’re experimenting, what with, how they
over come this…
Tacia

4. STORY LINE
A gang hangs around while a girl walks past on the phone; a boy in the gang
nudges another member of the gang and points to the girl walking. Everyone
looks at her and one boy notices her and remembers her from school
*flashback to school day’s* he walks over to talk to her and attempts to get
her number. The gang members see him walk towards her and they start
“spudding” each other as a sign of respect. The boy and girl get talking and the
girl accepts to exchange numbers. As the boy pulls his phone out, a packet of
drugs drop out of is pocket and on to the floor. She walks away not interested
in the drugs and him anymore and the boy walks back to the gang, humiliated.
He looks back at the girl in ‘awe’ and walks towards her.
Emmanuel

5. SHOT LIST
We made a shot list so
that we know what order
to do our filming in. This
also will help us to know
what we are doing and
cause less arguments on
the day we will be
filming. It will help us to
know what we have left
to do.
Emmanuel

6. STORY BOARD
Lauren

7. SCRIPT
Our script will help us
with what to say on
the day that we will be
filming.
Lauren

8. Unique selling point
• Our film is unique because it had both dramatic scene’s and involves the things
that teenagers of the age between 15-19 go through with experiments and new
things.
• It is also unique as in the gang stereotypically there is only black boys in a
gang, however, in our gang, we have a mixed variety of different races. We have
Black, African and English.
• Another unique selling point of our film, there is normally a group of popular girls
all together, but in our film, there is just the one girl.
• All in all, most films have lots of characters that you have to get to know and
understand, our film only has 7 characters. You only have to get to know 2 or 3 of
them.
Tacia

9. ACTORS
Lauren – Girl Bilal – Gangster Jack – Gangster Wilson – Gangster
Alex – Gangster Nii – Gangster Emmanuel – Gangster
Emmanuel

10. COSTUMES / PROPS
• The Gangsters will be
wearing puffer jackets. This
will make them seem big and
intimidating and will make
the viewer think that
something bad is going to
happen to the girl. They will
also be wearing tracksuits.
This will stereotype them in
to being ‘hood boys’.
• The handbag will
make the girl seem
feminine and will
make her look like
an easy target
Emmanuel

11. LOCATION
• This is where our film will be
set. We chose this because it is
close to the school and easily
accessible. It isn’t the darkest of
places so it doesn’t look very
suspicious however, it isn’t the
brightest of places so it doesn’t
look very innocent.
• We also chose this place for the
gang to hang out. We chose this
place because it looks hidden
away, somewhere you wouldn’t
expect to be found. It looks like a
place that a gang would hang
around.
Tacia

12. Questionnaire

13. QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS
What would you like to see more of in teen films and
why?
• More comedy as they are too romantic nowadays
• Fighting scenes because they are fun
• Relevant issues
• Bullets because it makes the film more lively
• More life related scenes
• Action
What type of scenes do you want to see and why? • Sex
• Attack the block and scary movies because they are
scary What type of characters do you like to see in teen
films?
• Sex scenes
• Underdogs
• Funny scenes • Characters like Ali G
• Joke scenes • Geeks and nerds
• Action because it is mad • Cheerleaders x2
• Comedy scenes because it shows versatility
• Fight scenes because they are fun
• Nudity scenes that will make me laugh
Bilal

14. TARGET AUDIENCE
• Our target audience would be teenagers who are around the ages of 13-19
• The reason why we chose teenagers is because of the struggles they go
through daily with drugs, love and gangs.
Tacia

15. SOUND
This sound will be This sound will be This sound will be
used when the girl used when the used during the
is walking and the gang is being flashback
boy in the gang introduced in the
recognizes her introduction
This sound will be
used when the girl
walks away
Emmanuel

16. PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Lauren

17. Allocated roles
• Lauren – acting/ camera woman/ editing/
script writer
• Bilal – acting/ camera man/ editing
• Emmanuel – acting/ camera man/ editing
• Tacia – camera woman/ director/ editing
• However, these are likely to change
Tacia

18. WHAT WE HAVE ALL CONTRIBUTED SO
FAR…
Lauren:
- Making PowerPoint production
- Helping come up with story line
MOST DIFFICULT PART
- Acting
- Script writer
- Production schedule
Bilal – Narrative
Tacia –Film Genre Research
Bilal: Lauren – Writing the Production Schedule
- Helping come up with story line
Emmanuel – Title Research
- Audience research
- Narrative research
- Acting
- Music
Tacia:
- Film genre research
- Sound clips
- Picture taking of locations
Emmanuel:
- Design of questionnaire
- Audience research
- Title research
- Acting
- Sound clips All

19. Changed recommendations
• Once we had an idea on what we wanted our 2 minute clip to be like we wrote it up and went round the school
asking people what we should change about it.
• Mr. Siaw (head of 6th form and Business teacher) “take out the ultimatum”
• Mr. Finnegan (English and drama teacher) “Keep the ultimatum, use it as a cliff hanger. However what you have
written there, I would think would be a 10minute introduction to a film, not two minutes. Try to condense it.
• Mr. Scourfield (drama teacher) “I like it, but try to write it so that the people who read it will understand what is
going to happen”
• Students have said to use;
• More comedy
• Fighting scene’s
• Relevant issues
• Bullets (guns)
• Life related scene’s
Lauren

20. Audience Profile
• As our film is targeted towards teenagers as our film is
a teen drama genre.; we have given the questionnaire
out to 10 teenagers in Lea Valley High School ages
between 13-17 and three teachers that are aged
between 22-40 years old who have read our narrative
and gave their feedback on what should have been
changed and what should be kept.
Bilal

21. Audience Profile
• From the questionnaire, we have learnt that the teenagers want to
see more violence and more cheerleaders, scenes that will make
them laugh, including some nudity. From this we have decided to
add a gang of teenagers for the audience to start thinking there is
going to be a fight; however a member of the gang see’s a girl a
recognizes her; this will then change the mood of the audience and
then the audience will start hopefully thinking of what is going to
happen next and want to watch more.
Bilal

22. Audience Profile
• From the narrative, we have been told to take out the ultimatum
between the gang and the girl because it will take too long; and
also you cannot add an ultimatum within the first two minutes of a
film. We have also been told to be specific on what kind of drugs
and how they are going to fall out and how the drugs are
packaged. And finally we have been told not too do a lot of talking
as you can tell a lot in what is happening by body language. From
this, we have decided to edit our narrative and do what the
teachers have said and add in a few things ourselves. From this we
have got our narrative that we have currently.
Bilal

23. • The end. Thank-you for watching.