The document summarizes a student film project analyzing a teen drama opening sequence. It describes stereotypical teen film characters and how the main character goes against conventions as the popular girl. It also analyzes the representation of characters, social hierarchies, and ethnicity. Feedback on the drafts is provided, noting the clear storyline and relatable narrative. Strengths include following conventions and appealing to the target audience, while weaknesses involve technical elements like sound and camera work.

5.  Clear stereotypical character
 Narrative generally revolves around teen
issues such as relationships
 Set in school environment
 Revolves around pop culture
 High key lighting
 Teen voice over
 Main character goes on a journey of self
discovery

7. The concept of the burn book gave
us the idea for our year book.
By using a
By defacing year book
images in shows that it
the year the based
book and around
writing school life
comments which is
reveals to conventional.
the Appeal to our
audiences target
the audience
storyline of
the movie
Clear theme of relationships
- conventional

8. Similarly the messages
written on the page and
The concept of not revealing the frequent pictures
the protagonists. However Melissa is in reflects her
from the mise –en –scene popularity
inferring the type of character
she is

9. Vaneesha’s
Looking off character is
into the conventional, as
distance. she is popular,
Shows cares about her
attitude image and is
and dominant. In
superiority other teen films
we have studied
she is most like
Regina from
They are both stylish and mean girls.
confident is their stance
However differs as our opening sequence is
based around the point of view of the
popular girl this is unconventional as it is
usually around the “outcast”

10. Our character
Serena goes
against the
conventional
character of the
protagonist
being a misfit
who has to “find
her place” , as
seen in the
Teen film 10
things I hate
about you

11. Popular The positioning
of the
Average characters
reflects their
social status.
Losers
Thus presenting characters with glasses
and braces stereotypically place them as
nerds/ losers.

12. Kevin G – character from
Mean girls
Representation of ethnicity is negatively represented in Teen
films as there is usually an absence, or stereotypically
portrayed.
Therefore our opening sequence positively represents
ethnicity, in a non stereotypical way.

13.  Film 4 ideal media institution as channel 4
owns it and it is a British
 It is due to our opening sequence that fits its
values of “ make trouble” and “ inspire
change” , more over channel 4’s main target
audience is the same as our ideal target
audience.

14. What type of characters do you like?
unconventional
Stereotypical
Relatable
What storyline appeals to you?
Relationships
Teen troubles
Drugs
Bullying

15. If our product were to be
distributed internationally we
would chose paramount as they
have produced the teen films that
we have studied which have
proven a success internationally.
This would also allow us to have
more of a budget towards
production and marketing of our
product
This also gave us an idea towards
the certificate rating for our
opening sequence due to its
contents such as use of profanity.

16. From our research we were able to
create a psychographic profile on
our “ Ideal audience” We created
this in the format of a facebook
profile.
Helps to show what
find of interests
that our audience
life. E.g active
sports. Reading.
Sociable
The kind of
music and films
they like.

17. The stationary shows
that the protagonist is
still at school. Related
to audience
The scripted Font can be The use of Pink nail
interpreted as being varnish and
quite girly, and reflects Jewellery signifies
its target audience the protagonists The use of Phones an Ipods
feminism and to represent the new age
portrays her as of technology and how is is
typical “girly girl” associated with the
younger generation

18.  It may be argued that this makes our opening
sequence gender specific and appeal more to
teenage girls than boys. Although we have
tried to make the story line appeal to teenage
boys as well by making the male protagonist
Nikil (Avnish) a main role towards the
development in the storyline and contribute
towards the humour of the story as the girls
are fighting over him.

20. Second draft
Final Draft
First Draft

21. What I liked about the project was that it was filmed to a great
quality, which surprised me, the story line was clear, the simplicity of
a book flicking was quite affective, the colour and tone was bright and
cheerful just like an American Teenage film.
Straight away when you hear the music you imagine them American
Teenage films such as Mean Girls. From what I saw it seemed like a
fictional teen story, where there is definitely a relationship between a
boy and girl. The girlfriend in the story is flicking through the year
book and discovers a girl she hated in her year, and she’s jealous of
her thinking she's trying to steal her boyfriend, and starts sticking
bubble-gum and scribbling all over her face which made it clear she
didn’t like the girl being around her man as the last words made it
clear.

22. It was fun to be apart of this project, I
enjoyed recreating all of the photos for the
yearbook. The final clip was really well put
together. The storyline was engaging and
enjoyable, through the narrative. It was
funny and the audience may be able to
relate to it.

23. Technology source How we applied it
Camera To an extent I think that we used it
well, as some of the camera shots
were a bit shaky.
Macs Hard to use, I thought it was a
challenge.
Imovie A new editing software which is more
advanced and technical to use. I think
that we could have used it more
effectively if we had more time to
explore.
Wordpress Helped us to organise and present
our work successfully and
professionally.
Youtube Allowed us to share our work. I thiink
that we used it effectively
Facebook Associated with our target audience,
a good way to get feedback

24.  In comparison to our preliminary task I think
that we an extent we have improved with use
of technology.

25. Strengths Weaknesses
•Follows Teen film conventions •Soundtrack and voice over wasn’t to
the best standard
•Introduces characters well
• Time management
• Clear narrative
•Limited camera angels.
•Interesting and relatable storyline
•Transition between editing
•Appealed to target audience
•Use of technology well
•Showed development