my adaptation presentation.

1. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL:
THE TV SHOW
By Mandisi Sibanda

2. ADAPTED
I have chosen to adapt the 2006 Disney film High School
Musical into a TV show, however this will not be a game show
like the one made in 2008 this will be an actual TV audio visual
production.
Genre: Musical/Comedy

3. NARRATIVE
The series focuses on an American High School based in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Also known as East High. Basketball jock
Shaun Boswell and new girl Olivia Bryant are two teens who struggle
to balance their relationship with one another due to their social
status’s within their school and troubled times face them when the
schools so called mean boy Dylan who’s been crushing on Shaun
since elementary school wants to sabotage their relationship in order
to stop them from performing in the spring musical, which he’s also
competing in.

4. CONSTRAINTS AND
OPPORTUNITIES
• New roles to be inserted, as it wouldn’t be respectful to re-apply the same
characters. But would mean the show has its own original element.
• Other characters will feed of the two protagonists and with the villain now being a
male who is homosexual compared to it being a female again as in the films it was
Sharpey (Ashley Tisdale), adding a new spin to the storyline for the jealous Bully.
• Huge fan base is to get them interested.
• Issues of extended narrative to fit into 20 episodes.
• Budget will need to be evenly distributed between episodes.
• Sexualizing of teens who are meant to portray 15 year Old's.

5. TARGET AUDIENCE
1. The core audience for the adaptation, as with most
mainstream Drama/Musical TV shows will be females
ranging from 13-25.
2. The secondary audience will be males 13-25 years old
for similar reason as the primary as I feel there was a
large majority of males that enjoyed the original high
school musical films and would be keen to watch TV
show as it is distinctively modernised for them to be
able to relate to high school life as times have changed
since 2006.

6. CINEMATIC
 This is musical translated into a drama series.
 There's several relevant characters that feed off each other.
 The musical numbers have meaning within the story line and it
clearly shows that we spend most of the budget to make these scenes
standout.

7. Storyboards