Week 1 objectives were to decide between a short film or music video based on a fairy tale, choose a fairy tale to adapt, and brainstorm script ideas. The group decided to adapt "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" for a short film targeting 16-21 year olds. They felt this fairy tale about a boy who tricks villagers could be reinvented to show how lying affects trust and relates to media portrayals of deceitful youth. Potential impacts on the target audience are exploring how fairy tales shaped morals and applying the lesson of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to situations where young people seek attention through pranks.

1. Planning
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2. Week 1 objective
Week 1
• To decide whether to create a short film or music
video both based on a fairy tale
• To decide what fairy tale to use for adaptation in our
music video or short film
• Brainstorming ideas for a script
• What did we look at and how did we decide to adapt
our story

3. Fairy Tale Brainstorm
Three little pigs Beauty and the beast
Goldie locks and the three bears
Little red riding hood
Cinderella Peter pan
Hansel and Gretel Fairy tale ideas Bambi
Sleeping beauty
The boy who cried wolf The goose that lay the gold egg
Jack and
the
beanstalk The ginger bread man
Snow white

4. Little red riding hood Three little pigs
Hansel and Gretel The princess and the frog

5. Little red riding hood
Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap or simply Red Riding Hood, is a
European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed
considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings.
The story was first published by Charles Perrault in ‘Histoires ou contes du temps passé’
in 1697.

6. THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables The tale concerns a shepherd boy who
repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf
actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is
destroyed. The moral at the end of the story shows that this is how liars are not rewarded:
even if they tell the truth, no one believes them."

7. WHAT DID WE LOOK AT AND WHY
DID WE DECIDE TO ADAPT THE STORY
• Being placed with the creation of a short film or music video based on fairy tales,
we began to brainstorm ideas for possible fairy tales .Through brainstorming our
group came to the conclusion that we would want to reinvent the traditional
narrative of fairy tales as they were intended to teach and entertain children
below 6 years of age and as a group we decided to
• The fairy-tale we choose and decided to adapt was the boy who cried wolf, we
found we could adapt the plot to make it more suited to a short film and our
target audience 16 – 21 year olds also as a group we thought it would be
experimental and interesting to see how the fairy tales that taught us morals as a
children could be easily translated into tales for young adults and be reinvented .
• The construction of our media product (cries wolf) is easily translated into todays
society where there is an increase in media portrayal of deviant lying youths this is
how we came up with the idea as the boy who cries wolf was initially used to scare
of teenagers as it showed them the dangers of attention seeking

8. POTENTIAL IMPACT ON MEDIA
PRODUCT ON OUR TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience for my short film is 16 – 21 year olds .my
media product would impact them as my target demographic are
young (the age group) therefore they have probably been in
situations where they most likely have pulled pranks or
something to gain attention just like the characters in my short
film would be doing . As a group we wanted to explore how fairy
tales helped develop our morals, the boy who cried wolf was one
we wanted to re invented the classic tale to bring about the true
meaning behind the fable to a modern audience .