Task 20: Christmas Homework

Christmas Homework - Teen Film

Name of the Film: Save The Last Dance

Genre: Teenage Drama / Dance Movie 

Credits: 

- Indent - Paramount Pictures 

- MTV film (Production)

- Cort/ Madden Production

- Title of the film - Save The Last Dance

 - Characters : 

     - Julia Stiles 

     - Sean Patrick Thomas

     - Terry Kinney 

     - Fredro Starr 

     - Bianca Lawson 

     - Kerry Washington 

     - Vince Green 

     - Garland Whitt

- Casting by 

- Music by 

- Music Supervisor 

- Chroegrapher 

- Co - producer 

- Costume designer 

- Edited by 

- Production designer 

- Director of photgraphy 

- Produced by 

- Story by

- Screenplay by 

- Directed by - Thomas Carter 

The type of title sequence was a moving image sequence, i know this because the protagonist in the film was in a train when it was moving thats when the title sequence started.

The production companies associated with Save The Last Dance was Paramount Pictures, MTV & MTV films, these are all mainstream productions, Paramount pictures have produced films like Mean Girls, Titanic & Flight, while MTV films have produced Coach Carter, The Fighting Temptations & Footloose . 

The plot/storyline is introduced when the main character Sara (Julia Stiles) is on her way to her father's house in Chicago after her mum died on her way to a university audition. sara has a passion for dance and faces some obstacles along the way to top, the storyline/plot is developed during the movie while encounting problems with her rivals and her boyfriend Derrick. 

The main characters of this movie are: Sara (Julia Stiles), Chenille (Kerry Washington), Derrick (Sean Patrick Thomas) and Malakai (Fredro Starr).                          

Sean Patrick Thomas

Julia Stiles

Kerry Washington 

 

Fredro Starr

The social groups were introduced into are working class people and students who live in the slums of Chicago. Stereotyping was used in this film for black and white people, black people was hip-hop/rap music, gangster dress code, guns and violence, break dancing, girls being a lone parent in their senior year of high-school and quoting from the movie "black peoples life is madness & mayhem". the stereotyping used for white people was, irritated by other ethnic backgrounds, snobby behaviour, opera and jazz music and ballet. Although the stereotyping for white people stopped during the course of the film, however the stereotyping for black people continued. 

The teenagers have conflict with the adults in the film like how we expect a teen film to be. They argue and ignore the adults just show that they are a teenager. but during the course of the movie its changes and they start to be open to the adults in the movie and change their behaviour towards them.

CAMERA !!: there were a lot of different shots during the movie such as: 

• Close ups 
• Match cut
• Two shot 
• Wide shot
• Long shot
• Tracking 
• 180 degree pan 
• Over the shoulder shot 

The film mostly contained close ups, two-shot and over the shoulder shot. close up's show how the teenagers reactions to things and their facial and body language. Over the shoulder shot illustrates to the audience who the character is talking to and how they react. Two-shot was a common one as well, because its a teenage drama, most of the characters would be with there friends so the camera will show the other characters in the shot so the audience would know who they hang out with.

MISE EN SCENE - (LOCATION&LIGHTING):

• Baggy Clothing early 21st century style 
• High school - Location 
• Night club - Location 
• Ghetto/slum neighbourhood - location 
• Guns
• Old rusty cars
• Natural/dull lighting 

EDITING !: 

• Screen time : Sara and Derrick ( Sara has more screen time than Derrick)
• Continuing Editing 
• Slow motion - After Sara's Juilliard (College/university) dance audition 

SOUND !!: 

• Hip-Hop/Rap music 
• Diegetic Sound - from the Dj's deck and radio player 
• Non-diegetic sound - A soothing, sympathy instrumental and Smooth, romantic and affectionate instrumental

MY REVIEW!!!: 

What i liked about this movie was that, it was a sub genre of a teenage drama, and how they walked through the obstacles and got to their goal with all the disturbances of their ethic background. To my opnion, i think its a great example of a teen film, because its reaches all the requirements of a teen film.

Target Audience - Task 10

1. Target Audience

What is a audience? 

An audience is  something/ a group of people  which spectates or listens at a public event such as, a play, concert. 

How do we define target audiences?
 A target audience is a particular group at which a product such as a film or advertisement is aimed at.


Why is it  useful for a film to have a target audience?

It's useful for a film to have a target audience so that they can receive feedback from the audience or even study the audiences reactions towards some of the scenes, which will allow them to know whether their play etc was successful or not.

                                         What audiences do you think teen dramas appeal to?
                                                     Teen dramas appeal to teens. Most teen dramas are set in                                               schools. 

Extension Activity -Task 9

Task 8 - Research Anaylsis

Task 15: Micro Analysis of Kidulthood

Task 13:sub-genre conventions

Task 10: Target Audience research

How many different audiences are there for Teen Film?

Teen films is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults. Plots are usually based on the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, rebellion/ territory,  first love,conflict with parents/ school, or alienation.

What is an Audience?

 An audience is a group of people who partake in a show

How do we define target audience?

  

A particular group/category of people at which a product such as a film or advertisement is aimed at.

Why is it useful for a film to have a target audience?

It allows you to understand and learn what that particular group of people like and look forward to in a product (a film in this case). Forms and conventions will be used to suit that target audience in order for the film to be successful and liked by them. Also having a target audience allows film makes to have limitations e.g. if a film is aimed at young children then violence and strong language will not be in the film.

Which audience do you think teen dramas appeal to?

1. Adult audience (20-30yrs) : who may want to reflect on their teenage years (nostalgia) - brings back memories for them when they were young teenagers.
2. Teenage audience (15-19yrs) : who can relate to it or who want to see what other teenagers are like
3. Younger audience : Aspire or get an insight to see what the teenage years are like.
4. 

Task 8 Teen Dramas- title sequences- research into institutions

Task 7 Analysis of favourite film

'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Analysis

This opening title sequence uses animation and motion. The title sequence becomes part of the moving images and are integrated together with images we see. This category of title sequence requires a lot of digital technology and stylized editing. Often only high budgeted film are able to do this and The Hunger Games is a high budget film.

Order of credits in this Title sequence

1. Lionsgate Presents
2. A Color Force/ Lionsgate Production
3. Jeniffer Lawrence (Main Character)
4. Josh Hutcherson (Main Character)
5. Title of the film 'The Hunger Games; Catching Fire'
6. (Names of other actors starring in film)
7. Casting by... / Music supervisor...
8. Music by...
9. Costume designer... / Edited by...
10. Production designer... / Director of photography...
11. Executive producers...
12. Produced by...
13. Based on the novel by...
14. Screen play by...
15. Directed by...
16. *END OF TITLE SEQUENCE*

Praticle Research Remake of The Breakfast Club

 

Breakfast Club Story Board

 

Shot list for teen title remake activity

Shot list for teen title remake activity

Shot 1 – Black background with yellow text ‘David Bowie’

Shot 2 – A long shot of the front of the college

Shot 3 – Close up of a clock

Shot 4 – Long shot of corridor

Shot 5 – mid shot of the canteen kiosk

Shot 6  - medium close up of posters and boards

Shot 7 – Close up of carving on a lank of wood

Shot 8 – Close up of the lockers

Shot 9 – Close up of books on the floor and an open locker

Shot 10 – Close up of dirty newspaper on the floor

Shot 11 – Close up of debris in the common room

Shot 12 – Wide shot of drama room

Shot 13 – Close up of graffiti in a book

Shot 14 – Close – up Pictures of teacher

Shot 15 – Mid shot of computers in the library

Shot 16 – A Wide shot of the library

Shot 17 – tracking shot of people coming into the library

RESEARCH - Target Audience - 10

Audience

 What is an audience?

An audience is the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting. An Audience doesn't have to be only one group e.g. age, gender or marital status.

What is a target audience?

A target audience is a particular group at which a product such as a film is aimed at. Industries use target audiences to focus their merchandise on a specific audience so that it attract ore buyers. A specific audience can be formed of different groups to find a certain type of audience for example a female, aged 25 and is currently single. Different target audiences apply to different events so finding a specific audience requires research in whom the event will be targeted to.

Why is it useful for a film to have a target audience?

It is useful for a film to have a target audience because the film you are making you would know what to include in the film and what appeals to them to attract them into watching your film more.

Which audiences do you think teen dramas appeal to?

I believe that Teen Dramas can have many different types of target audiences. One of them would be Adults. Teen Dramas may appeal to adults because it may cause the adults to reflect on their teenage years. Another audience teen dramas might appeal to is teenagers themselves. Teen dramas may appeal to teenagers because they might want to be able to see what other teenagers like themselves get up to and relate to their problems. Finally, another audience that may appeal to teen dramas is younger children, teen dramas may appeal to them because it could aspire them to become like the teenagers they see on the drama or it could give them an insight as to what the teenagers years are like.



Extension activity - 9

Who makes title sequences?

The title sequence is an approach most films and programs use to presents the key production and cast members occasionally both. It normally follows the opening credits however the two are completely different and should not be confused with each other.

Who makes the title designs?

In the past the official design of studios name or logo this also works along with the name of the person with the character they are acting as. Further more most of the studio had their logo or title of the studio as the background for the credits, and the majority of the movies that were produced had the same method.

How they get their ideas?

A movie production is first created with an idea and follows through with scripting writing. The target audience first has to be established in order to know what the firm can be about and the language as well as the actors. Once this has been thought out and planned a storyboard can take place.

The relationship between the film studio and the director.

Film studios selects a director, which they believe will be best, suited to the film they are producing. This requires the film director’s attributes and films they have made before.

Genre and Teen Drama - 12

Genre:

A style or category of a film, e.g The Fault in Our Stars came under the genre of romance.

Teen Drama:

A teen drama is a type of drama series with a major focus on teenage characters.

Analysis of 4 different films shows the title credits differ. 

Beautiful thing

 Channel 4 Film presents

A World Production

Linda Henry

Glen Berry

Scott Neal

Film Title - Beautiful Thing

With - Ben Daniels & Tameka Empson

Written by

Produced by

Directed by

My Brother The Devil

Production company

Association

Introducing - Fady El Sayed

Executive producer

Producers

Written and Directed by

Mean Girls

Rachel Adams

Tim Meadows

Lindsay Lohan

Casting By

Based on

Music supervisors

Music composed and conducted

Co-produced 

Costume designer

Editor

Production designer

Director of photograph

Executive producer

Producer

Screenplay

Directed by

10 Thing I Hate About You

Touchstone Pictures

Production Company

Film title

Julia Stiles

Casting team

Music

Executive music producer

Costume designer

Associate producer

Co-producer

Edited

Producing designer

Director of photograph

Executive producers

Written By

Directed by

The difference between the mainstream productions and the independent productions is that the mainstream productions have much more credits to offer simply because they have a higher budget. Mean Girls had a budget of approximately $17 million this allowed them to incorporate more people into producing the film. Likewise with the film 10 Things I Hate About you, this film had a budget of $16 million which also allowed it to incorporate more credits into the title sequence because it had more credits to offer. The opening weekend for Mean Girls earned $854,852 this was because of the type of release, Mean Girls was released internationally meaning it appealed to more people all over the world. Whereas My Brother The Devil was only released nationwide which is why it earned $10,305 on its opening weekend release.