Planning Evaluations

Storylines: We have created our narratives to reflect our audience’s expectations. We are aiming our drama at teenagers; therefore we decided to have representations of teenagers so the audience can relate to the characters. We have created drama through using extreme real life teenage drama. For instance a teenage girl becoming pregnant is a real life teenage drama because of the amount of teenagers having unprotected sex. However it is an extreme case, yet for a drama, teenage pregnancy is an often used storyline. This is similar with fights, threats, relationship drama, getting kicked out of college, and friendship problems storylines.

Locations: I have chosen these locations because I feel they will create a good atmosphere for the different scenes, for instance under a bridge will seem dangerous and matched narrative of a fighting running and fighting sequence. I have also used mise en scene to give representations, for instance there is graffiti under the bridges that gives connotations of youths and rebel behaviour. Additionally, by using a train station or bus station gives representations of youths because they will use public transport. As well our storyline involves a group of teenagers around college educational age, therefore we can easily use our college to shoot in and then this gives representations of college students.

Script: In planning the script we used a lot of mode of address to reinforce the representations we want to create.

Here is a list:

 “You sneaky shit!” – use of swearing gives representations of rebellion behaviour often seen in youths to revolt against parents and authority.

“That was a rubbish lesson, almost fell asleep" – refers to a college lesson, obviously reinforces to representations of students.

“skank” – Use of youthful aggressive language and insults, especially those of demeaning abuse to women give representations of violence and create drama in the trailer.

“mates" – This is a colloquial speech often used by teenagers, reinforcing this stereotype.

“bedding your girlfriend all the fricken time?!" – Again colloquial language used in an aggressive manor to create representations of violent teenagers.

“Ahh you bitch” – Again use of swearing gives representations of rebellion behaviour often seen in youths.