A2 Media Studies Preparatory Task- Research for Advanced Portfolio
Short Film Task:
My first narrative will have a hybrid of drama and romance;
it will be about a tragic love story of a Muslim girl and an Indian boy falling
in love; however her parents are extremely strict on religion and they do not
accept their daughter to marry a Non-Muslim. Yet, no one discovers about their
relationship; until people begin ‘talking’. So therefore, the devoted
companions believe they should part away from each other; however the story
worsens as she finds out she is pregnant which makes the couple reconnect but
people begin spreading rumours about the youngest sister to her elder brothers
and they were told by an informer how their sister is heading to a clinic with her
boyfriend. Immediately, they follow the couple and see them romantically
entwining themselves with one another. Both brothers get out of the car, begin
beating the boy and drag the sister to the car. They then confront her to the
parents and she is told by her father she is moving out to the Midlands.
Whilst, the father and the daughter walk to the car with her bags she sees her
boyfriend calling her. Although, her father pushes him away and gets her in the
car, she looks back one more time (Hand on the window crying) and turns away
thinking about the memories they once shared (Flashback) and then rubs her
stomach believing that is all she has left of him.
The predominant targeted audience is teenage girls aged
sixteen and onwards going through a phase of restrictions and not being allowed
to fall in love with the person they want to and also pregnant teenagers of not
knowing how to control a situation they are not ready to handle. This idea is
similar to the following films: “The princess and the marine, the lost
valentine and the best exotic marigold hotel.” For location I have a concept of
neutral locations the park, a house and clinic/hospital this will contain a
minimum of six to seven characters and I will utilise props of a pregnancy
test, car, phones and pictures to add a realistic effect to the entire scenery.
My second narrative is an action comedy which will be about
two boys on a mission to deliver a package to a ‘mob mafia’; however they
encounter many problems and difficulties in achieving this goal for example:
the package being mistaken for money in an envelope- going to different people
or the package being eaten by a dog, hence making the boys wait until the dog
lets out its faeces or the package being used by a child. The targeted audience
for this scenario will be mainly boys aged fifteen and onwards as of the main
characters also because boys understand the humour that will be displayed in
the short film. This is comparable to Mr Bean’s Holiday, Overnight Delivery or
American Pie: The Wedding. For this synopsis, I will be utilising exterior
areas of a park, a deprived car park area and a child’s home in order to
ensemble all the ideas together which will also include 5 actors: A dangerous
mafia, a silly rebellious teenage girl, two troublesome boys and a little girl or boy and a vicious
looking dog.
My final plot of a chronicle will be relating to a fantasy
theme adventure romance of a disobedient teenage girl receiving an anonymous
present a week before her sixteenth birthday, she is given a magical packet
granting “three wishes”. The girl is very gullible and wishes for what she
longed the most; but fails to realise the fate of reality will be jeopardy if
she doesn’t undo her wishes. On an adventure, seeking to rewind back to reality
the girl is accompanied with a boy who she meets and ushers her to helping her
reverse the wishes and get back to reality. The audience for this scenario will
be girls aged twelve and onwards who enjoy watching characters (mainly females)
who are beckoned to go on a venture to restore peace to the main land. Films
which are similar to this are: Thirteen Going on Thirty, Just My Luck and
Beastly as they all consist of a character being on a quest in order to regain
normality. This film will feature a maximum 4 characters: parents, the teenage
girl and a teenage boy. I will be using
a girl’s bedroom to portray a stereotypical teenage room, a shopping mall and a
part of an institution.
Two film extracts
My first extract: ‘The princess and the marine’ was released
in 2001, by ‘Mike Robe’. Their story
relates to my first narrative as it consists of two lovers enclosing their love
from the world and facing the barriers of being separated. The plot follows a
linear narrative structure as the main predominant characters represent Jason
as a strong, brave obedient soldier who is fighting for his country; whereas
Meriam is connoted as a vulnerable, rebellious teenager being imprisoned in her
home. The tracking shot is mostly used in the scenes as it follows the subject
and then there is zoom in on the subjects face in order to reveal their facial
expressions. This is shown at a fast cutting rate as of the dramatic actions
being displayed accompanied with diegetic sounds growing louder therefore;
making the scenery more suspense for the targeted audience who are
multi-cultural teenage girls aged fifteen and over that enjoy reminiscing and
day dreaming of being entangled with a companion against the world. It features
exotic locations of a desert and natural surroundings of social life for
example: shopping mall, cinema, bedroom, home and school. Also Meriam dressing
in colourful outfits or school uniform and Jason in his army wear shows the
contrast of an imbalance of the two beings being together.
My second example: ‘Top Boy’ although it is a TV series,
directed by ‘Yann Demange’ in 2011 it has element which are similar to my
second concept as it pursues a linear narrative about: A thriving but underground drugs business is
being run by Dushane and his friend Sully to become the wealthiest men on the
block. To live prosperous Dushane and Sully go into corporation with top don
Bobby Raikes. Enmity with Kamale and his gang results in their loan from Raikes
being stolen, and they swear vengeance. Thirteen-year old Ra'Nell gradually
gets trapped into the gang and drug business as his mother Lisa has a breakdown
and is hospitalised - with distressing consequences. Similarly, this coincides
with my plot as it depicts a boy on a journey seeking to get out gangs, drug
and violence and help his mother recover from her illness. The characters:
‘Dushane and Sully’ are connoted as immature rude, egoistic arrogant men who
are on a quest to find money; however Ra’nell
being on thirteen is seen as a mature, polite boy in search of helping
his mother to get back on her feet. All characters display the hard brutal
truth of ‘survival of the fittest’. All
scenes have a fast cutting rate as of the rapid action taking place and loud
non-diegetic sounds to build up the performance of the norms of the deprived
London life. It also includes a tracking shot following the subject and a zoom
shot to denote the characters body language, which ensures the audience feel
involved in the scene and the surroundings. This is aided by the mise-en-scene
of the characters wearing sports branded outfits for example: Nike or adidas
with a pair of jeans and trainers this suggests casual ‘cool’ clothing to the
targeted audience. In addition with Ra’Nell being is school uniform can aswell
show unequal standards he has towards Dushane or Sully as he is portrayed as a
‘school boy or youth’. The predominant targeted audience for this scenario is
mainly focused at a broad multicultural range of teenagers who undergo the
pressure of having standards towards bad influences.
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