When creating our film we also needed to decide on a Genre we would class it in. As a group we decided that Teen Drama would be the best option for our film. We firstly looked into Drama on its own, but after deciding on the cast and final storyline of our film we released that Teen Drama was more appropriate. A Teen Drama is classed as a dramatic television series, with a majority focus on teenagers. Although our short film is not a television series, it is a dramatic film with a majority focus on teenagers. Our film focuses around the life of one girl, who appears to be the typical teenage nerd, until she gets invited to a party at the popular girls house. Every Teen Drama film or series results in there being someone more popular than the others, the nerd or unpopular person usually being the main focus of the film. Like our film the main character is the nerd, who gets invited to be part of the popular crew. Which like the typical Teen Drama leads to our main character dealing with ups and downs in friendships and romances, and facing issues such as drugs. Like I previously stated our product is a film rather than a TV programme, yet the conventions used in such TV programmes have been the basis of our film. Our film relates to multiple films and TV programmes involve college life and the way people are easily led.
Waterloo Road is a UK TV programme based on a school. This links to our film product as our characters are at college. The fact that this TV programme also focuses on issues such as drugs, violence and rape, it has a larger connection to our film product. Waterloo Road allows you to see how easily a student can be influenced when they believe that they are making friends in the process. It also shows how easily the trust these people put on their new friends can be broken and result in the character being hurt by their so called friends.
Mean Girls is a well known Teen film that focuses on the life of the new girl. Unknown to her, she ends up forgetting who she is and turning into someone else to please the popular people at school. To find out that they aren't really her friends, leading to ongoing fights and tricks to get back at each other. Our film focuses on how easily people change how they act and who they are to fit in with the rest of the group. Although Mean Girls has a larger focus which results in the new girl getting her own back on the popular girls in school that made her life hell, the idea that she changed to fit in is what connects this film and the genre itself to our film.
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