Our media product is aimed at teenagers. The use of teenagers in our psychological thriller, as the main characters. As this is aimed at teenagers we it will be released quickly. As digitalisation is increasing, this means new and more improved ways to watch films. Teenagers are likely to watch films on Youtube, Google videos etc.
We used characters that our audience could relate to. The main character in our film, Lucy Bentley, is a an example of a character that people can relate to, as many teenagers like rock music and like dressing in Black.
This is an example of an teenager. Our film would not be suitable for young children as it is a thriller and it would appear to be scary for them.
By having storylines that are similar to the types of dramas and soaps teenagers watch, i.e: Hollyoaks, Waterloo road etc. These dramas/soaps have some type of stroyline between a student and a teacher.
This is an example of a relationship between the teacher and student, from Hollyoaks.
Our Media product is aimed at teenagers. It is suitable for ages over 14, but our main aim is 17 to 18 year old teenagers. In our psychological thriller, we have characters and storylines that are suitable for teenagers and are the king of storylines , teenagers would watch, e.g: the main storyline of our media product is about a schoolgirl, who becomes obsessed by a new teacher. Her obsession causes her to shut out the people around her, including her best friend Phoebe. The image shows how obsessed Lucy is, which leads her to having images of the teacher. This is where Lucy is in class drawing the teacher, Mr Collinson.
We wanted to use two different characters as Best friends , an outgoing social girl and a girl is not very social and doesn't have many friends around her. As well as making a different storyline we also wanted to this to puzzle our audience, as that is the aim of an psychological thriller. Our characters are similar to the characters from popular, a Tv series created in 1999, by Gina Mathews and Ryan Mathews. The difference between our character and the characters in popular are that the two girls used to be best friends until they 're social status separated them from each other.
Our aim was to approach the storyline that happen in real life. As the main characters in our psychological thriller, are teenagers, we are targeting this age group, as they will find it interesting and would be able to relate to it.
In our film , we used a teacher (Mr Graham) , to play the part of Lucy's teacher, Mr Collinson, who she obsesses about.
Lucy's obsessive behaviour leads her to stick computer printed images of Mr Collinson in her locker.
Here , Lucy is watching across the class in jealousy as, Mr Collinson makes a joke with two other students.
There are television Dramas that have similar storylines, e.g: Hollyoaks which is a teenage drama, that comes on channel 4. This has storylines with obsessive behaviour towards liking a teacher.
Our film is produced by MAD productions. We decided that we would be an idependent film as we have a teenage audience, therefore we wnated to construct a film that would suitable for out audience and something that they would enjoy. Most films that are often aimed at teenagers are mainstream and have more than one producer. The film Sority Row(2009), directed by Stewert Hendler and written by Josh stolbergand Peter Goldfinger, is produced by two production companies. These are Karz Entertainment and Summit entertainment. This is the Sority Row film (2009),which is one of the widely viewed films in cinema.
Our Media product is made to target a teenage audience. There are different social groups that are represented in our film. There are lots of teenagers who are Gothic and enjoy Rock music. There are also lots of teenagers who are the popular type, with a lively personality. There are lots of social groups.. For our psychological thriller we wanted use to opposite social groups, to get the audience's focus.To question them about the friendship between the two characters, and how others respond to them.
These are Genres ,that are associated with the type of films, Teenagers like to watch.
These Genres are not only about the types of film's teenagers like to watch, but these categories also demonstrate the different social groups and different ages,the audience belong to. Our film , is a psychological genre. Psychological thrillers, are not like horror, as they play with the audience's mind. Throughout the film, the audience feel as if they are solving a puzzle.
As there are adults in this film , an adult audience may also watch this psychological thriller, as the psychological genre is also targeted for and older audience. An exaple of this genre, is films by Alfred Hitchcock, who was an English filmmaker, who liked to create psychological thrillers with suspense.
Vetigo is one of Alfred Hitchcocks famous thriller films made in 1958, about a agoraphobic policeman, who is hired as an investigator to investigate an acquaintance's wife's abnormal behaviour.
Lucy Bently, looked like the average school girl, yet she has a mysterious personality, which isolated her from the world of the other people around her, including her popular best friend Phoebe Johnson. Her Dad left home when she was young leaving her with no male figure to protect her. She now seeks the affection she wants from her teacher Mr Collinson. Will this obsessive love drive someone to murder?
Our psychological thriller , Education to die for , is about one mysterious girl's obsessive behaviour upon a new teacher's arrival. Our plot was similar to a film called 'Cracks'(2009), which is about a female teacher and a new student who is also female, and the obsession between them. Our film title is not the same, as our character is different, as she feels the happiness in her life, only when coming to school, because of the new teacher. We also decided to have a different gender approach, as we decided to have a male for the teacher. We also did this to make our story different from the storyline in the movie, 'Cracks'. Our titles appear in a panning movement.
This is the film, ' Cracks'. the trailer clip is shown below.
For our production company name , we decided to come up with a name that had our intials in it. We came up with MAD productions, which has the initials of our group's surnames (Minhas, Ali, DuMay). This also the white font, look mysterious against the black background.
For our location, we used the school, as that it where the story takes place. Our location is similar to the movie, cracks, however ours is in a public school and the school location in the film takes place in a boarding school.
The two school scenes are different as the second image is a strict boarding school and the other image on the top is a average school. This is a long shot of our locker scene.
For our two main characters, the girl who is obsessed and her best friend, we decided to create a opposite friendship. In films, there is often a popular girl and a girl who is seen as an outcast. Te two characters don't get along. However we decided to make a different type of character representation, to make our story dramatic and to puzzle the audience. Our character representation is the opposite to the relationship, in the TV series 'Popular".
For our main character, Lucy Bently, her representation is a mysterious character who is gothic and into rock music. We wanted to do this to create an opposite character, to her best friend who is a more popular and bubbly type of person. Her dark clothing represents her dark personality, and reflects her being an outcast from other people around her, including her best friend Phoebe Johnson, who begins to worry about her friend's strange behaviour.
