1. 4:Who would be the audience
for your media project?

2. This photo shows our target audience. We appeal to the tastes of male
and female teenagers typically aged around 14-19. We feel that girls
would appreciate our film, enjoying the friendship storyline as well as
the issues raised about ‘stereo-types’ and ‘individuality’ however we
would also appeal to boys with the theme of music and also the cast of
attractive girls.

3. Television programmes
such as Skins or
Misfits, for the top end of
our age bracket, would
appeal to our audience
as the sense of character
relation makes these
programmes seem more
realistic.

4. Also the theme of rock ‘n’ roll music
would relate to our audience
who, as teenagers, would typically
be experiencing lots of genres of
music and developing their tastes.
Our audience would shop
in a range of young trend
stores such as
H&M, Topshop and also
independent shops as the
theme of ‘being different’
features heavily in our film.

5. The target audience we have
aimed our film at would be
interesting in watching the film
mainly because the themes relate
to their life. Also, going to the
cinema is a popular activity for
the age group of our audience.
’10 things I hate about you’ is a film
which is similar to ours because of the
contrasting characters. The film was
released in 1999 however it still
appeals to a similar audience of
teenagers interested in movies
dealing with real-life teen issues.

6. 5:How did you
attract/address your
audience?

7. GENRE CONVENTIONS
Certain genre conventions have been fulfilled within our film. For example, there
are typical settings in which you would expect a teen movie to be based around. Our
film is set in a college for 16-18 year old students in England. You see typical aspects
of college life such as college bands, corridors and classrooms and also college items
such as posters and lockers.

8. GENRE CONVENTIONS
Another convention that we have fulfilled is that our two main
characters originally didn’t mix in the same social groups.

9. GENRE CONVENTIONS
To a certain extent there’s an element of hostility

10. GENRE CONVENTIONS
However there is a situation that brings them together and unites them with
a common interest. This convention is often included in films aimed at
teenagers as stereotypes and cliques are an inevitable part of a modern teens
social life.
Also our two main characters physically look very different to exaggerate the
contrast between the pair for example Megan is blonde where Francesca is
brunette. However this in itself is a contrast to a typical stereotype as usually the
blonde girl is the nice girl.

11. USE OF MUSIC
The use of music within our film is very important as music is the main theme in
the film. We have included the song ‘Miss Nothing’ by The Pretty Reckless as it is
a high energy, rock ‘n’ roll song which features in the introduction and also is the
song Megan has to sing in the audition.
Taylor Momsen, the lead sing of the band, is the style icon we based
Megan’s look on and we felt it would be fitting to also include one of her
songs.

12. UNIQUE SELLING POINT
The ‘Unique Selling Point’ our film is a sense of British reality. A lot of
teen films are set in America and often don’t quite relate with the ‘average
teen.’ Characters in typical teen movies seem too extreme. They’re either
unintelligent Jocks and air-headed blonde cheerleaders or drug addled
rich kids who get away with everything and think they know everything.
Our film is subtle yet effective at portraying how different
people can build a friendship over a common interest. This is
what would entice our target audience of 14-19 year old male
and female teens.

13. FILM RATING
Our film would be rated a 12A as there may be minor swearing or
‘mature themes’ such as relationships as more characters became
involved

14. 6:WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES
FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?

15. PROGRAMMES/ WEBSITES USED
We used Adobe
We used YouTube for
Premiere to edit our
research and to upload
project
our video onto.
Blogspot was used We used Photoshop
for the write up to import fonts.
We used Slideshare
to make our slide in
to a video clip

16. TOOLS USED
Selection Tool/Cursor
Track Select
Razor Tool
Zoom/Magnify
Tool
TIMELINE

17. ADDING VIDEOS TO THE TIMELINE
To add videos to the timeline you
first select them in the left hand
column and drag it to the place to
want the video to be on a video
track on your time line as shown
here
Video tracks

18. ADDING MUSIC TO THE TIMELINE
Adding music is very similar to adding videos
however you drag the selected audio clip to an
audio track on the time line

19. Video transitions used:
Cross Disolve
Dip to Black
Audio transitions used:
Exponential Fade

20. QUAD SPLIT SCREEN
This is and example of one of
our split screen shots. In this
example we have four screens in
one shot.
To do this we selected the video clip
we wanted to use and resized the shot
by dragging the corners as shown on
the red guitar in this photo

21. ADDING TITLES
We added titles to some of our split screen shots and
introducing character shots to list the cast etc.
We added titles by clicking on Title, New
Title and then Default Still
After naming the
title it appears in
the left hand
column

22. ADDING TITLES
The edit new title window
opens where you can
add text,
select font,
change font size
and text colour

23. 7: LOOKING BACK AT YOUR
PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT
DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE
LEARNT IN THE
PROGRESSION FROM IT TO
THE FULL PRODUCT?

24. PRE-LIM SIMILARITIES
Establishing Shot
OVER SHOULDER SHOT

25. PRE-LIM SIMILARITIES
MATCH ON ACTION

26. PRE-LIM MISTAKES
A mistake we made in our pre-lim film is that at times we filmed
from a high angle when we should have been at eye level.
However we learnt from our mistake and didn’t do this in our
coursework.

27. EDIT TERMS
We used Keyframes to change the volume of the background music so
that speech could be heard and too add effect.
We also used this technique in our pre-lim but it’s use was much more
subtle in our coursework film.
(Pre-lim)

28. EDIT TERMS
We’ve used a dip to black in both projects however in our coursework the
effect was appropriately placed not just at the end.
In both projects we complied with the 180 degree rule.

29. FINAL NOTE
Our thinking has changed throughout the process of making our film as we
discovered how hard it was to involve a large number of cast. We changed
our film ideas slightly to accommodate filming times and time restrictions.
Also sets were often unavailable due to us filming in a real college. We
have learn a lot about editing and media conventions as we realised there
was a certain criteria we had to fulfil by making a teen movie. We learn
about the importance of continuity and tried very hard to make sure there
were no errors. To conclude although the process has been difficult and
time consuming we feel very happy with our finished film.