Codes and conventions of a teen drama.

The genre of the film we are going to be creating a title sequence for is Romance/Teen drama. 

Some of the key codes and conventions of a Romance film are exploration of love at first sight, unrequited love, forbidden love, obsessive love, tragic love, etc. Romance usually is coupled with drama in a lot of TV series and film. The film idea that we had ties in with this genre through the use of, love at first sight and eventually tragic love. We had to make it a Teen/romance drama because our audience and cast in the film would be Teens aged 13-17. Romantic films allow the audience to escape for a while and allows them to imagine themselves as having a love like the characters on screen, it usually ends that the characters live a 'happily ever after' or declare their love for each other after years of ignoring it.
From watching a few title sequences the colours pink and red are usually used. This may also show that they are percieved as feminine films, the target audience for romance is usually largely female.
Most romance title sequences have a backing soundtrack of an acoustic guitar. This is something we have discussed to include in our title sequence.

Some other things that feature in romantic/teen drama title sequences are that main characters usually have something about them that is different or seen as a disadvantage. This is key within most title sequences, but in a romance drama title sequence you come to understand and know the characters. By the time the film starts usually you would know a little about them.  This is something we have discussed and would like to include in our title sequence. We would like the audience to feel a connection with the main characters and feel like they know them and is someone they could be friends with by the time our title sequence is over.


Our genre also falls under 'teen drama'. A teen drama is a type of drama that mainly focuses on the lives of teenagers and the teenage characters. Typically a character who is an underdog is the main character, the character could be a new student to the school or is considered by most of the students as an unpopular person. This is the main issue and the idea that 'love conquers all' comes into play and all is resolved in the end. This gives the audience an idea of how that character feels and allows us to  see the film from that characters perspective. In a teen drama title sequence there is usually music playing in the background. This is either upbeat or acoustic guitars/slower music. Music always plays a big part in a teen drama film, it will also play a big part in our title sequence.

Filming in School

Filming in school was difficult because the people we needed to be in it had different time tables and chloe belongs to erith school so she cant always be here to film during free periods. Also the male protagonist in our film, Greg is year 13 and also has a different timetable to our year. we managed to film little parts today but we need to reshoot some parts and shoot some more shots that we did not have the time to shoot. Esther will upload the clips on the computer in school and we will start editing.

Feedback from Class.

In class today we watched each others and our own title sequence. This gave us the chance to see how other people had done theirs and allowed us to have them comment on our title sequence in order for us to improve it. Our title sequence was the weakest out of all of the others so we have quite a lot to improve. But at least we can fix the problems highlighted to us by other members of our class more efficiently now. 

Problems that were more commonly pointed out were:

• Fonts/ Colour/ Style Positioning/ Difficult to read (This point was the most frequently made.)
• Unclear Storyline
• Editing needs a lot of work
• Length of some of the clips

I dont think our title sequence works particularly well. The fonts used were not the selected colour or style that the people picked on the survey. This was because when it was edited the survey was disregarded. 

Our main character.

The main character in our film is a teenage girl in her last years of secondary School, she is quite a popular girl and gets along with everyone in the school. In her spare time she listens to music and likes to spend alot of time with her friends watching movies and just talking, when shes not with he friends she likes to sepnd her time on social media websites and watching her favouite tv shows.
Her sense of style is different and can be even considered as alternative but she is a very care-free person and does what she wants. She wears alot of tshirts made by her favourite bands and tv shows on and very rarely follows any fashion trends there may be. She also wears skinny jeans and owns several pairs all in different colours. She also owns many, many pairs of converses and likes to wear a different pair everyday. She also tries to change her nail varnish colour very week.

Survey of fonts.

This is the survey that I made to ask people which font they thought was best and in what colour. This was to ensure that we chose the correct font and colour that people thought would match our chosen genre. The results were:

Fonts:

Always Forever (3/10)

Jenna Sue (4/10)

Jennifer Lynne (2/10)

Sweetie Pie (1/10)

Colours:

White (5/10)

Purple (2/10)

Dusty Blue (1/10)

Red (2/10)

Music.

This is the track that chloe and I chose to best fit our title sequence. We found it on this website:

https:/www.freeplaymusic.com/

From here we chose this song and made sure that we had permission to use it in our coursework by sending an email:

 

Filming Journal 2: Danson Park Re-Shoot.

Today after our media lesson Chloe and I went to get all the Props and Converses that we need and we met Esther at danson park at half past 3. This time the footage was shot a lot more smooth and we managed to get all of the shots that we needed. Luckily the weather was fairly calm therefore making the footage less shaky.