Title analysis of youth and high school dramas. (2)

Bend It Like Beckham is an example of a youth drama.

The order of the titles:

• Kintop Pictures (Title)
• In association with The Film Council and Film Foerderung Hamburg (Title)
• With the particcipation of BskyB and British Screen (Title)
• And in association with Helkon SK, The Works, Future Film Financing (Title)
• A Kintop Pictures/Bend it Films Roc media/Road Movies co-production (Title)
• A Gurinder Chadha Film (Title)
• Bend It Like Beckham (Name of the film)

This is one of the titles from the title sequence of Bend It Like Beckham.

An example of a high school drama would be Grease.

The order of the titles:

• Paramount (Ident)
• A Robert Stigwood/Allan Carr production (Title)
• Grease (Name of the film)
• John Travolta as Danny (Cast)
• Olivia Newton-John as Sandy (Cast)
• Stockard Channing as Rizzo (Cast)
• Jeff Conaway as Kenickie (Cast)
• Dances & musical sequences staged & choreographed by Patricia Birch (Cast)
• Music supervision: Bill Oakes (Cast)
• "Grease" Music & lyric by Barry Gibb (Cast)
• Associate producer: Neil A. Machlis (Cast)
• Produced by Kenneth Waissman & Maxine Fox (Cast)
• Edited by John F. Burnett (Cast)
• Production designed by Phil Jefferies (Cast)
• Director of photography: Bill Butler (Cast)
• Based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (Title)
• Screenplay by Bronté Woodard (Cast)
• Adaptation by Allan Carr (Cast)
• Produced by Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr (Cast)
• Directed by Randal Kleiser (Cast)

This is one of the titles from the title sequence of Grease.

The differences between the two titles sequences would be that they have different types of title sequences. Bend It Like Beckham has a title sequence of blank screen while Grease has a title sequence of animation. Grease is an example of a high school drama. High school dramas often focus on teens being young and having fun. An animation title sequence was well suited with this high school drama because animation is what we associate with as a young thing and also fun.

What is a target audience?

What is an audience?
An audience is the people that will view a media text and gain some sort of sense out of it. An example would be people that watch movies. The people viewing the movie would be the audience as they will view the film and gain some sort of sense out of the film.

How do we define target audience?
A target audience would be who a media text aim their product to. This is usually done by setting out a a specific group of people outlining the gender, age and other stuff.

Why is it useful for a film to have a target audience?
It's useful for a film to have a target audience because without a target audience, the director won't know what the film should be about and what the storyline should include. Target audiences are useful because it's what makes the film. Without a target audience, you wouldn't know who to aim your film at and also you wouldn't know what to include in your film to gain an audience for the film.

Which audiences to you think teen dramas appeal to?
I think teen dramas appeal to teenagers because teenagers then get to see how other teenagers live their teenage years. Teen dramas would also appeal to young adults as they were once teens. Teen dramas would also appeal to both genders as both genders can relate to being a teenager.

Who do you think are the target audiences for the teen dramas?
I think the target audiences for teen dramas are teens as well as young adults.

Why do you think they are the target audience?

Napoleon Dynamite is an example of a teen drama. The demographics for someone who would watch Napoleon Dynamite would be a young female adult aged 25-39.  This is definitely a target audience for teen dramas as they can relate to what happens. This is also research that young adults are target audience for teen dramas.

American Pie is an example of a teen drama. Research shows that the demographics for American is a young male adult aged 25-39. This shows that young adults are target audiences of teen dramas.

Kidulthood is another example of a teen drama. Research shows that the demographics for Kidulthood goes from teenage years to young adult years and years being 18-24. This brings in teenagers to being target audiences for teen dramas.

What is genre and teen drama film?

What is genre?
Genre is a style or category.

What is a teen drama?
Teen drama is a type of drama where its major focus is on teenage characters.

Title credits

Beautiful Thing

The title sequence in order:

• Channel Four Films (Title)
• A World Production (Title)
• Linda Henry (Cast)
• Glenn Berry (Cast)
• Scott Neal (Cast)
• Ben Daniels (Cast)
• Tameka Empson (Cast)
• Beautiful Thing (Name of the film)
• Written by Jonathan Harvey (Cast)
• Produced by Tony Garnett and Bill Shapter (Cast)
• Directed by Hettie MacDonald (Cast)

Mean Girls

The title sequence in order:

• Parmount Pictures (Ident)
• A Lorne Michaels production (Title)
• Lindsay Lohan (Cast)
• Mean Girls (Name of the film)
• Rachel McAdams (Cast)
• Tim Meadows (Cast)
• Amy Poehiler (Cast)
• Ana Gasteyer (Cast)
• Lacey Chabert (Cast)
• Neil Flynn (Cast)
• Jonathan Bennett (Cast)
• Amanda Seyfried (Cast)
• Tina Fey (Cast)
• Casting by Marci Liroff (Cast)
• Intro
• Music surpervisor: Amanda Demme and Buck Damon (Cast)
• Music composed and conducted by Rolfe Kent (Cast)
• Co-producer: Louise Rosner (Cast)
• Costume designer: Mary Jane Fort (Cast) 
• Editor: Wendy Green Bricmont (Cast)
• Production Designer: Cary White (Cast)
• Director of photography: Daryn Okada (Cast)
• Executive producer: Jill Messick (Cast)
• Produced by Lorne Michaels (Cast)
• Screenplay by Tina Fey (Cast)
• Directed by Mark Waters (Cast)

My Brother The Devil

The title sequence in order:

• Verve (Ident)
• Wild Horses Film Company (Film company)
• Rocks Nest Entertainment (Ident)
• Association with Film Clinic (Title)
• Saïd Taghmaoui (Cast)
• James Floyd (Cast)
• Fady Elsayed (Cast)
• Aymen Hamdouchi (Cast)
• Ashley Thomas (Cast)
• Anthony Welsh (Cast)
• Arnold Oceng (Cast)
• Letitia Wright (Cast)
• Amira Ghazalla (Cast)
• Elarica Gallacher (Cast)
• Nasser Memarzia (Cast)
• Executive producers: Mohammed Hefzy and Sally El Hasaini (Cast)
• Producers: Gayle Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya and Michael Sackler (Cast)
• Written by and directed by Sally El Hasaini (Cast)
• My Brother The Devil (Name of the film)

Budgets

Film budgets

Beautiful Thing - Low budget

Mean Girls - $17 million

My Brother The Devil - £650,00

Box office figures

Beautiful Thing - $3,072,738
Mean Girls - $129 million
My Brother The Devil - $1,200,100

Type of release

Beautiful Thing - Restricted release
Mean Girls - Wide release
My Brother The Devil - Wide release

Mainstream or independent?

Beautiful Thing - Independent
Mean Girls - Mainstream
My Brother The Devil - Independent

Comparison

A mainstream film will always have a much longer title sequence as Mean Girls had a much longer title sequence than Beautiful Thing as you can see above. This would be because of Mean Girls have a very high budget and Beautiful Thing don't so this means they will be able to afford stuff that Beautiful Thing can't afford for the film. This includes better actors and actresses hence is the reason why Mean Girls title sequence is so long, because they have very good actors and actresses in their film and show it all in the title sequence. A high budget will also mean more members for a cast which is what Mean Girls have and not Beautiful Thing.

Analysis of a film's title sequence of my choice.

The Social Network is the film of the title sequence I will analyse.

Order of the title sequence:

• Columbia (Ident)
• In association with Relativity Media (Title)
• A Scott Rudin/Michael De Luca/Trigger Street production (Title)
• A David Fincher film (Title)
• The Social Network (Name of the film)
• Jesse Eisenberg (Cast)
• Andrew Garfield (Cast)
• Justin Timberlake (Cast)
• Armie Hammer (Cast)
• Max Minghella (Cast)
• Josh Pence (Cast)
• Brenda Song (Cast)
• Rashida Jones (Cast)
• John Getz (Cast)
• David Selby (Cast)
• Denise Grayson (Cast)
• Douglas Urbanski (Cast)
• Rooney Mara (Cast)
• Casting by Laray Mayfield (Cast)
• Costume Designer: Jacqueline West (Cast)
• Sound design by Ren Klyce (Cast)
• Music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Cast)
• Editors: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (Cast)
• Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt (Cast)
• Director of photography: Jeff Cronenweth (Cast)
• Executive producer: Kevin Spacey (Cast)
• Produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin (Cast)
• Based upon the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' by Ben Mezrich (Title)
• Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (Cast)
• Directed by David Fincher (Cast)

The type of title sequence The Social Network used for the title sequence was titles over moving images. Titles over moving images helps to introduce the beginning of the film and helps introduce the tone of the film for the audience. The title sequence began by showing the beginning of the film and then showed the title sequences over the location of the next scene joining the title sequence and the next scene together with the moving images.

Research: Remake Of a High School Film (part 1)

Below is our planning for our remake of the high school film 'The Breakfast Club' where you can see our prop list and our storyboard. our story board includes different shot types such as close ups and medium shots. 

Story Board 

Analysing conventions in High School and Youth Drama Title Sequence - Micro Analysis

Attack The Block 
The first thing we learn in the title sequence is that the film is set in London town. We know this because a tilt is used to show us a high street in London town and a popular underground station. In this title sequence we are introduced to two main characters and some supporting characters. Firstly we meet a lady who seems to be coming home from work. A wide shot shows us what she is wearing. she is wearing a green jacket and a purple hat and scarf suggesting to us that the time of year is winter as she is trying her best to keep warm. As the lady is walking a way and we see her from the back we hear what seems to like a gun shot . This suggest that the lady is going to be in some danger. We see a group of boys who are in hood , hats and are on bikes. We immediately stereotype them and associate the woman being in danger to have something to do with them. We can tell that they are young by the way they are speaking in slang.
10 things I hate about you
A birds eyed view of the road is shown at the start of the title sequence to show the setting and surroundings, it gives us a clear understanding that the film isn't set in London that its set in america as the roads are different.
Also in the title sequence it introduces us to two, group of girls both similar in so many ways as both groups of girls wearing basic teen clothing this indicates they are teenagers and they go to a high school.  A very extreme close up is used to show the girls facial expressions these facial expressions immediately get the audience thinking that these two girl groups are enemies and there is tension between them the title sequence protray what kind of film it is and the sub genre which is teen films also the music represents high school as the music is played as the title sequence introduces a couple of teens in a high school.

Inbetweeners
Inbetweeners is an example of a high school drama. In the film there is an example of cross cutting. During the film, the parents are seen kissing each other and then the camera crosses over to a shot of one of the teens of a mid shot and shows the facial expression of being embarrassed by seeing his parents kiss. This shows the conventions of how high school dramas celebrate the idea of being young. Another thing was that in the title sequence sound was used to show the conventions in high school dramas, in the film opening one of the teen says "I don't know. I guess I'll just be going on holiday.". This shows the conventions of high school drama as it celebrates the idea of being young and having fun. When one of the teens is in their room the camera does tracking and the camera moves freely and shows a messy room which could be seen as a convention of a teen boy who is young. Props were seen while the camera was tracking. Some props that we see are posters all around the room. This shows the image of the teen being young and celebrating his youth. This could be matched with the costume which he's seen wearing which is a football t-shirt.

Analysis of title sequences.

The first title sequence is Cabin In The Woods.

The title sequence involves the features of:

• Lionsgate (Ident)
• A Mutant Enemy Production (Title)
• A Drew Goddard Film (Title)
• The Cabin In The Woods (Name of the film)
• Chris Hemsworth (Actor)
• Anna Hutchison (Actress)
• Fran Kranz (Actress)
• Jesse Williams (Actor)
• Richard Jenkins (Actor)
• Bradley Whitford (Actor)
• Brian White (Actor)
• Amy Acker (Actress)
• Casting by Amy McIntyre Britt and Anya Colloff (Credits)
• Co-producer John Swallow (Credits)
• Visual effects supervisor Todd Shifflett (Credits)
• Music supervisor Dana Sano (Credits)
• Music by David Julyan (Credits)
• Costume designer Shawna Trpcic (Credits)
• Editor Lisa Lasser (Credits)
• Production designer Martin Whist (Credits)
• Director of photography Peter Demin (Credits)
• Executive producer Jason Clark (Credits)
• Produced by Joss Shedon (Credits)
• Written by Joss Shedon and Drew Goddard (Credits)
• Directed by Drew Goddard (Credits)

The type of font used was a normal font in capitals. The font was also the colour of red which was also dripping throughout the title sequence as it went along. This could be used to say that the genre of the film Cabin In The Woods is a horror film and we know this because of the title sequence as blood represents violence and violence represents horror. Also, from the long list of the title sequence, we can tell that the film is a high budget film. The font is seen in the bottom right corner. This is because the type of title sequence is a moving image title sequence. As it's a moving image title sequence, behind the font is the film being played. We're introduced to the main characters of the film as main characters are usually the ones who open up the film. What I like about the title sequence is the effects the title sequence is written in with the font colour being red and it dripping, what I like is that it's a very smart way of having the genre given to the audience through the title sequence. Why I chose this film is because I watched the trailer for the film and found it very interesting.

The second title sequence is The Simpsons, Season 26, Episode 1.

The title sequence involves the features of:

 

 
• The Simpsons (Name of the TV drama)
• Created by Matt Groening (Credits)
• Developed by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening and Sam Simon (Credits)

The type of font used in The Simpons bubble writing. From this, we could be able to tell that the TV drama could potentially be a comedy TV drama.

Task 11

What is Sub-genre?
Sub-genre is subdivision of a genre

Sub-genre's in Teen Drama's:

•  High School
•  Horror
•  Comedy
•  Supernatural
•  Action
•  Sci-Fi
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  High School Musical is an example of a sub genre as it is a teen film but also fits into the category of musical. Meaning musical is it's sub-genre.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Scary Movie is also an example of a sub genre as it first of all contains Teen film features but then also contains horror and comedy.

Task 10

What is Target Audience??


A target audience is a specific group of people within the target market at which a product or the marketing message of a product is aimed at.

It is useful for a film to have a target audience, as it will help to choose a storyline or genre.  
Also it will  help you know what kind of film to make and who you will aim your film to ( age group )

Which audiences do you think teen drama films appeal to?

Teen drama films are mainly aimed at teenagers and young adults who enjoy watching things that are related to social-realism. They are most likely to live in urban areas and possibly attend school. Teen dramas are more likely to appeal to females rather than males since many teen dramas have a romantic element shared by the female and male protagonists.

Task 8

Research into Institutions

17 Again

Credits

•  Directed by Burr Steers
• Written by Jason Filardi
• Produced by
• Executive producers
• co-producer
• Director of photography
• Production designer
• editor
• costume designer
• Music composer and condutor
• Music supervisor 
• Casting
• Star Cast
• 17 Again
• 

               

My brother the devil

Credits

• Indent
•  Film company
• Title of film company
• Cast
• Producers
• Written and Directed By

 

         

Budgets

  My Brother The Devil

1. Low Budget
2. Box Office Figures :$33,931 (Opening weekend in USA)$10,305 (Opening weekend in USA)

17 Agains

Film Budget: $20 million

Box Office Figures: $65,149,837 worldwide

Type of Release: Wide

Mainstream or Independent

17 Again  - Mainstream

My Brother The Devil – Independent

The difference :

The differences that we see between mainstream title sequences and independent title sequences, is that mainstream title sequences have longer title sequences as they have more credits and have a higher budget then Independent films as they have low budget this is because most mainstream films include famous well known stars e.g. mean girls is a mainstream film and includes a famous star .

Task 7

FAVOURITE FILM ANALYSIS...

Boyz N The Hood:

• Columbia Pictures
• Boyz N The Hood

Boyz N The Hood is a Saga of a group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto.

The Director: John Singleton

Star Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishbourne, Hudhail Al-amir 

Box Office

Budget:

 $6,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

 $57,504,069 (USA)

The 4 different types of film openings.

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When it comes to film openings there are more than one way a film can decide to show the openings of their film. The different types of film openings there are in film openings are

• Blank screen.
• Still images.
• Moving images
• Animation/motion.

Blank screen

The blank screen film opening involves different kinds of typeface on a black background. It is the most common type of title sequence. When blank screens are used for film openings, usually a white typeface is used on a black background to create a high contrast for the audience. When studios were to use the blank screen for film openings, it was because they had a low budget and didn't have a high budget to produce any of the other 3 different types of film openings that would be seen as more of a high budget film opening. Blank screen title sequences can offer a simple, uncomplicated way to include conventions of title sequences such like institutional information at the beginning of the film.

Psycho is an example of a film opening that I have looked at which had a blank screen for the title sequence.What I thought of the film opening which involved a blank screen was that it made it seem like the film ahead would be dull, it looked very low budget. The music for the title sequence helped the film to seem like the film ahead would be thrilling.

Still images

The still images film opening is more elaborate then simple white text on a black background like the blank screen. Still images indicated a move past just text but also a way to incorporate text with a visual image to hint at the genre of the film. Studios would begin to support the development of more elaborate title sequences and also recognized their contribution to the film as a whole. Still images being used in film openings requires combining different media to make the background for the title sequence. The use of music in the film opening alongside still images help to introduce the tone of the film and help hint the genre it could be.

Pulp Fiction is the example of a title sequence with still images I looked at. What I thought of the title sequence was that it was more productive than the blank screen and also felt I got a better vibrant from still images than with blank screens.

Moving images

The moving images film opening incorporates the credit titles with moving image behind the titles, sound and usually no dialogue. Serves to offer either a metaphor or narrative thread to help introduce the tone or storylines of the film to the audience.

Cidade de Deus was the example of a moving images film opening I used. From the film opening I thought it made the audience entertained because it's more of a fast pace title sequence and shows a lot of action in it too which none of the other two types of film openings didn't include.

Animation/motion

The use of animated text in the title sequences became more poular in the late 90s. It became part of the moving image and are integrated together with the images we see. The use of animation for a film opening requires a lot of digital technology and stylized editing.

The example of the animated film opening was from a James Bond film. What I thought of the film opening was that it was well done, looked like it took a while to do and used a lot of digital technology. It also seems like the studio had a high budget.

Task 8

Research into Institutions

Mean Girls -

 

Credits

•  I dent
• Producer
• Main cast
• Title
• Cast
• Casting By
• Based on a book
• Music supervisor
• Co Producer
• Costume Designer
• Editor
• Production Designer
• Director Of Photography
• Executive Producer
• Producer
• Screenplay
•              

My brother the devil

Credits

 

• Indent
•  Film company
• Title of film company
• Cast
• Producers
• Written and Directed By

 

 

 

         

Budgets

  My Brother The Devil

1. Low Budget
2. Box Office Figures :$33,931 (Opening weekend in USA)$10,305 (Opening weekend in USA)

Mean Girls

Film Budget: $17 million

Box Office Figures: $129,042,871 worldwide

Type of Release: Wide

 

Mainstream or Independent

 

Mean Girls  - Mainstream

My Brother The Devil – Independent

The difference :

The differences that we see between mainstream title sequences and independent title sequences, is that mainstream title sequences have longer title sequences as they have more credits and have a higher budget then Independent films as they have low budget this is because most mainstream films include famous well known stars e.g. mean girls is a mainstream film and includes a famous star .

Task 10

 Target Audience

What is an audience?

 

 is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter
 

How do we define target audience?
 

A target audience is a of a group of people who you aim your product/service to.

 

Why is it useful for a film to have a target audience?
 

It is useful for a film to have a target audience, as it will help to choose a storyline or genre.  
Also it will  help you know what kind of film to make and who you will aim your film to ( age group )

 

Which audiences do you think teen drama films appeal to?

Teen drama films are mainly aimed at teenagers and young adults who enjoy watching things that are related to social-realism. They are most likely to live in urban areas and possibly attend school. Teen dramas are more likely to appeal to females rather than males since many teen dramas have a romantic element shared by the female and male protagonists.