Audience Research (Primary)

Before starting to produce our title sequence, I had to conduct a survey in order to fully understand our demographic. I set up a questionnaire on ‘Question Pro’ and then using social media such as ‘Facebook’ we asked people to do the survey.  After a week of our questionnaire being online, I collected the results.  50 'teenagers' took part and 27 were male and 23 were female. Here are our results for every question;

Teen drama research

I continued to research into different teen dramas that are out there..
Teen dramas have got to be one of my favourite styles of film and TV because I can personally relate to them in some cases, as they are based on issues that teenagers will probably have to go through at least once in their teenage life. These issues/ problems are:
1.Coming of age
2.First love
3.Rebellion
4.Conflict with parents
5.Teen angst
6.Alienation
7.Sex
8.Drugs
9.Alcohol
10.Sexuality- (gays and lesbians)
Codes and conventions of the teen film genre are different depending on the film, the most common conventions of a TV drama can include but they can include alcohol, drugs, high school and parties. This shows that when dealing with a teen drama we have to focus on the codes and convections so the audience understand our representation of teen drama as they can see it in our opening sequence. The classic codes and conventions of teen film come from American films where one of the most widely used conventions are the stereotypes and social groups. The stereotypes usually used include:

 •The Geek/Nerd

 •The loner

 •The outcast

•The new kid in school

Apart from the characters there are many other codes and conventions of teen film. These films are often set in or around high schools as this allows for many different social cliques to be show.

THE 10 BEST TEEN DRAMA FILMS OF ALL TIME

1) The breakfast club
2) fAST TIMES AT Ridgemont HIGH
3) Ferris Bueller's Day off
4) Dazed and confused
5) Empire Records
6) 10 things i hate about you
7) Ghost World
8) Donnie Darko
9) Juno10) the perks of being a wall flower

As part of research I watched some of the following teen/drama films to get the sense of what the codes and conventions are of a teen drama, displayed above are the top 10 teen drama films brought to you by pepsi.com
http://www.pepsi.com/en-gb/d/content/15536483/The-10-Best-Teen-Drama-Films-of-All-Time

What do teenagers like and dislike? (Primary Research)

What do teenagers like and dislike? (Primary Research)

I interviewed 20 teenagers between the ages of 15-19 on what they like and dislike. I gave them a range of things to like or dislike (from food to fashion), and here are the results:

-Food: 20/20 liked, 0/20 disliked
-Drinking: 17/20 liked, 3/20 disliked
-Parties: 16/20 liked, 4/20 disliked
-Smoking: 8/20 liked, 12/20 disliked
-Sex: 15/20 liked, 5/20 disliked
-Fashion: 17/20 liked, 3/20 disliked
-Social networking sites e.g. Facebook/Twitter: 18/20 liked, 2/20 disliked
-Smart phones: 20/20 liked, 0/20 disliked
-Taking photographs: 18/20 liked, 2/20 disliked
-School/College: 1/20 liked, 19/20 disliked
-Parents: 20/20 liked, 0/20 disliked
-Friends: 20/20 liked, 0/20 disliked
-Films: 19/20 liked, 1/20 disliked
-Music: 20/20 liked, 0/20 disliked

From conducting this survey, I have found out that on average, teens mostly like food, smart phones, friends, parents and music. Because it was a minor survey, that does not conclude that all of these things should be included in the film. It simply allows a few themes and ideas to include within our film.
The knowledge that most people from my survey do not like school or college is also useful, because from that information, we could include some sort of rebellion against school in our film.

Things I included in my survey

What do teenagers like and dislike? (Secondary Research)

What do teenagers like and dislike? (Secondary Research)
Continuing my research on our target audience for our film - teenagers, I decided to get to the bottom of things and find out what teenagers actually like and dislike. From this, my group and I would be able to include these things in the film (or not), and be more aware of what appeals to our teenage audience, and what doesn't.
From my secondary research, I have found out that teenagers like:
-Loud music/Ipod
-Sleeping in
-A messy room
-Hanging with mates
-Ditching parents
-Phone
-Hot boyfriend/girlfriend
-'Cool' mates
-Social networking sites e.g. Facebook/Twitter
-Junk food e.g. McDonalds
-Food in general
-Taking photos with friends
-Taking 'selfies'
-Being alone sometimes
-Parties
-Drinking
-Porn

And apparently they do not like:
-Nosy parents
-Chores
-'Bitchiness'
-School
-Homework
-Being bored
-Babysitting

(Research carried out from www.wikianswers.com)

Of course, this is a large generalisation and not all teens will like and dislike all of the above. But as an average list, this research will help my group and I to consider our film content.

                                          Typical 'teen' situation

Behind the scenes

For this production we didn't want to spend much money on props that we could easily manufacture or acquire at home. For example Eva made the pregnancy test box from paper: she had printed out a template and then stuck it on a box to give it shape.

 

 Eva posing with the 'pregnancy

test' prop!

ENTER THE VOID - Opening Title Sequence < I was thinking along these lines, BOOM!

Basic Typography & Motion Graphics - I found this to help with the title sequence, go big or go home yayah

I found a cool way of animating our production logo for the start of our title sequence :)

'Behind the scenes' on Nalika's scene for our film opening

This video is our 'behind the scenes' video from when we filmed Nalika's scene on Tuesday 04/02/14. The filming went efficiently well and we took many shots. We later realised that we had far too many shots and had to remove some, but we always said it was better to have too many than too little. An overall success!

Our Pitch For our Teen Drama Film Opening

This is our Pitch for our opening title sequence for 'Isn't That Illegal'.
During our pitch we conducted primary audience and genre research with our classmates.

'Behind the scenes' on Georgia's scene from our film opening

 

We created this video after shooting our 'Georgia' scene today. We had fun making it, but used our time productively to create a hopefully successful scene.

Notes from group meeting 28/01/14

Notes from group meeting - 28/01/14 from 13:00 - 16:00pm.
Notes include shot lists for each scene, prop and costume list for several scenes, and scene order.