Group 44: Planning- teen film opening

planning of our opening scene:

what sub genres will we be using?

As a group we have been looking at ideas of the different types of sub
genres we could use within our opening scene. Determining this has allowed
us to further understand the project at hand, as we will be able to make conscious decisions
on what to include in our opening scene, in order for it to correlate with the sub genre we have chosen. The sub genre we chose was a 'teen drama', this is because we felt that through a teen drama we will be able to relate to our Target audience, as this sub genre will enable us to touch on subjects pertaining to the everyday lives of teenagers.

characters and representation:
In our film opening we are trying to be as efficient as possible, so we have decided that each member of the group will be playing some part in the opening scene. this way each of us will be able to experience both filming and acting during this project as well as this being a fair solution, it will increase our knowledge using the camera equipment and us all acting will allow us to fully understand what we are doing.

locations we have considered using:
we wanted to make our film opening as realistic and relatable as possible and so we didn't want to over exert ourselves when choosing locations because we waned to capture the raw reality of middle class teenagers of this generation. As a result of this idea we chose to film our scene opening in these three locations:

school/college
flat/ apartment
estate

plot/themes:
We have decided to incorporate different ideas from a variety of teen movies from various teen movie genres such as: fish tank, mean girls, St. Trinians and white chicks, in order to appeal to a wide range of teenagers, who enjoy watching different things . The main plot to our opening scene is going to be about a young teenage girl who is new to the area, and is trying to fit in however she has a hard time achieving that. our opening scene will showcase the beginning of her journey in doing so. The themes we will try to include in the opening scene are:

friendship
new beginnings
popularity (Social hierarchy within schools)
aspiration
bullying
drama

we decided on these themes because in the previously mentioned teen movies this is what we have observed as the main themes within those films and they were all highly successful movies.

style of titles :

As a group we figured that our opening titles should be as interesting and creative as possible as our project is time limited, and so in order to include as much as possible of our story we decided to style our title sequence similar to the recent film fast and furious 6. we chose to do this because it showcases all the important titles however it also includes parts of the story in between these titles and so we thought that this method would be the most productive and efficient way to use our filming time.
Target audience:
For every film production an audience is determined to ensure sales and views. our target audience will be teenagers between the ages of 15-18 simply because our film opening will be able to relate to them as they will either be experiencing school life or just alighting the education system so the event of new beginnings at a school will still be relatable for them.

independent or mainstream:

Our film opening will be an independent British teen drama production, as this is a small scale project. As well as this we are aware of the funds we would need in order to introduce the film opening as a mainstream one and have concluded that it wouldn't be realistic.

style of soundtrack we will use:
seeing as our film opening will be mainly inspired by the teen drama fish tank, we have opted to include music that is quite upbeat and urban so for example when the main character is introduced we have thought about including some house music or hip hop.

Movies we have collected inspiration from: