Photo Ideas

Variety of photo's we took for possible images to go on the Poster and Magazine article. None of the photo's in the video where used in the end as we felt a whole group photo of the main character would work better for are film.

'Miss-Fit' Main Characters

(Dates on the photos are wrong, coould not remove it when the photos were taken on the camera, 2009)

'Miss-Fit' Story Board

magazine cover

Film Poster

Research- Teenage film genre

The teen genre is a film genre that is aimed at teenagers and their particular interests. These topics include coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents and high school emenies, crushes, best friends , individuality and alienation. Often many serious issues from life are presented by filmakers as glossy and sterotyped. This genre is set in high schools as the audience it is targeted at are usually high school age. Sexual themes are also very common as are nudity and crude forms of humour and slapstick moments.
The commonly used sterotyped characters include:

• The jock or footballer
• The princess or the plastic
• The geek
• The rebel
• The outcast or misfit
• The average girl or boy
• The girl next door

These listed above are examples of all the steroypical high school cliques. Conventions of a teen film genre depend on the cultural context, but however they do always seem to include proms or beach parties, underage drinking, use of illegal substances, all night raves, high school parties , loosing a characters virginity, social groups, first time relationships, and the latest american music and pop culture around at the time.

examples of teen films are:

• Dude? wheres my car?
• Never been kissed
• Mean girls
• The girl next door
• American pie series
• slap her...shes french
• new york minute
• Dirty deeds
• The dukes of hazard
• Charlie Bartlett
• Juno
• John Tucker must die
• Sex Drive
• 17 again
• house party
• Van Wilder

Research- Romantic Comedy

Romantic comedies tend to include a man and a women both leading regular lifestyles, both working and socialising. They come together romantically, but later we see arguments and obsticles that pull them apart. But later we see them reunite. This is acheived through funny moments that involve both characters. As an audience you can see that they belong together but they cannot see it for themselves. A good example of a romantic comedy is "The Proposal", this stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who are both well-known for their brilliant comedy roles. In this film the man and women are not romantically linked. They work together and the women is the boss at a business firm in New York. Sandra and Ryan's characters do not get along, but have a very humour relationship that shows to the audience they have a spark between them. They are not romantically involved because they simply dont like eachother in the beginning, this may be because of job pressures and strain from other factors in their own personal life. Later they come together and pretend to get married, as Sandra Bullock's character may ahve to get deported from New York back to Canada if she does not have a strong reason for staying. This would cause her to loose her job and therfore power. So she sees Ryan Reynolds as an easy target employee who would go along with her lie because he is intimidated by her power as a business women. Later they go through ups and downs, and they start finding eachother attractive after spending time together. This leads to many funny moments. We as an audience start to see that sometimes initial oppsites can attract. Both characters become comfortable around eachother and they begin to fall in love, but dont let eachother know at first. Then they fall out and Sandra's character gets on a plane home to admit that they are not really getting married and she planned it all along. But however as she leaves Ryan's character realises he has fallen for his bossy manager. She also feels the same and they end up giving into their feelings for eachother. The reunite at the end and plan a real wedding. This film has many funny and light hearted scenes that can be enjoyed by a male and female audience. The comedy scenes and romance is very strong in this film and this was what made is so enjoyable to watch.

Romantic Comedies appealed to us as a group as we like to watch romantic comedies. Many romantic comedies include sterotypical love stories and the ups and downs that go along with that. Many romantic comedies use simialr actors and actresses in their movies. We noticed that Jennifer Aniston has appeared in many romantic comedies these include:

Hes just not that into you
Marley & me
Picture Perfect

Romantic comedy films are very light-hearted and have funny storylines. They also include true loves overcoming obsticles so that they can be together, but along the way they have troubles which are humourous.

Friends- popular sitcom which includes many actors and actresses that have now been recognised in many comedies since this well-known and loved sitcom series. The cast includes Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow. These comedy show is a tv series, but we are loooking at movie romantic comedies.
We noticed that the character Jennifer Aniston plays in Friends is very similar to some characters she has played in films years later. This is something called type cast when a actor or actress is defined by the character an audience sees them portray, and they almost become the characterin other films.

some other romantic comedy films are:

Shes all that
50 first dates
what a girl wants
wedding crashers
Its a boy girl thing
Shes the man
Wimbledon
just friends
My super-ex girlfriend
My best friends girl
picture this

Jerry maguire
my best friends wedding
Bruce Almighty
Knocked up
The devil wears prada
Hitch
Meet the Fockers
Sex and the City (film)
Theirs something about mary
Confessions of a shopaholic
The ugly truth
I love you man
Valentine's day

Research- Comedy 2

Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre.

The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old, but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation.

A later view characterizes the essentials of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.

Much comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations, but there are many recognized genres of comedy. Satire and political satire use ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor. Satire is a type of comedy.

Research- Comedy Genre

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. While many comedic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary (such as Wag the Dog and Man of the Year).

The black comedy film deals with normally taboo subjects, including, death, murder, suicide and war, in a satirical manner. Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Ladykillers (1955), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Loved One (1965), MASH (1970), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), The War of the Roses (1989), Heathes (1989), Keeping Mum (2005), and Burn After Reading (2008).
Gross-out films are a relatively recent development, and rely heavily on vulgar, sexual or "toilet" humour. Examples include Porky's (1982), Dumb and Dumber (1994), There's Something about Mary (1998), and American Pie (1999).

The romantic comedy sub-genre typically involves the development of a relationship between a man and a woman. The stereotyped plot line follows the "boy-gets-girl", "boy-loses-girl", "boy gets girl back again" sequence. Naturally there are innumerable variants to this plot, and much of the generally light-hearted comedy lies in the social interactions and sexual tensions between the pair. Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Sabrina (1954), When Harry Met Sally...(1989), Pretty Woman (1990), and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film. This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s. There is no consensus definition of this film style, and it is often loosely applied to slapstick or romantic comedy films. Typically it can include a romantic element, interplay between people of different economic strata, quick and witty report, some form of role reversal, and a happy ending. Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night (1934), Bringing up Baby (1938), Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), and more recently what’s Up, Doc? (1972).

Research- Romance Genre

‘Romance’ Genre

Romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists. Common themes include the characters making decisions based on a newly-found romantic attraction. The questions, "What am I living for?" or "Why am I with my current partner?" often arise.
The appeal of these films is in the dramatic reality of the emotions expressed by the characters. The most successful romantic film is the 1997 blockbuster, Titanic which grossed over $600 million domestically and $1.8 billion, worldwide.

Another prerequisite is that the film has a happy ending (or at least bittersweet) and many would argue that no film with a sad ending may be correctly defined as "romance;" however, this second prerequisite is admittedly disputable and many screenwriters and directors will push the boundaries of the genre in this aspect.

Romance Films, love stories, or affairs of the heart center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love. As in all romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films.

Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after" - implied by a reunion and final kiss.

Many romantic films do not have fairy-tale, wistful-thinking stories or happy endings, although love serves as a shield against the harshness of the real world. Although melodramas and romantic comedies may have some romance in their plots, they usually subordinate the love element to their primary goal - to provide humor or serious drama.

Research- 'Mean Girls' -Soundtrack

Mean Girls Soundtrack


"Dancing With Myself" - The Donnas (Generation X cover)
"God Is A DJ" - Pink
"Milkshake" - Kelis
"Sorry (Don't Ask Me)" - All Too Much
"Built This Way" - Samantha Ronson
"Rip Her to Shreds" - Boomkat (Blondie cover)
"Overdrive" - Katy Rose
"One Way or Another" - Blondie
"Operate" - Peaches
"Misty Canyon" - Anjali Bhatia
"Mean Gurl" - Gina Rene and Gabriel Rene
"Hated" - Nikki Cleary
"Psyché Rock" - Pierre Henry
"The Mathlete Rap" - Rajiv Surendra

Research- 'Mean Girls'

Repertoire of elements for Meal girls

Settings- American high school
Narrative- geek vs. popular, geek gets a make over, guy learns lesson to be himself.
Characters- Mean girls and friends, geek girl, main guy.
Stars- Lindsey Lohan
Director- Tina Fey
Title- Mean girls
Music- Sam Ronson-build this way, Pink- Rock chick sound.
Mise-en-scene- High school, Shopping malls, sports cars, money, chuwah dog, high heels, pink skirts.

Cast list:-
Lindsy Lohan- Cady
Rachel mc adams- Regina
Amanda seyfriend- Karen Smith
Tina fey
Tim Meadows
Johathan Bennett- Aaron Samuels
Lacey Chabert- gretchin.

“Survival of the fittest,”

Paradigms- High school, geek, popular girl, main guy, follower friends, Modern music, money, high heels and skirts, teenagers, parents, love.

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A Cinderella Story- Repertoire of Elements

The repertoire of elements in a film are all the signs that hep the audience recongnise what type of film it is. This includes the narrative, which is the typical story plots a teenage movie would follow, settings or typical location that suits the stories, Iconography which is all the visual signs we see as an audience.
Below i have listed the repertoire of elements for "A Cinderella Story":

Narrative:
Teenagers struggling with their socail life and trying to find out who they are and what they want from the future. Hilary duffs character is living rich with a her step mother and sisters that use her for their daily chores. She lives in the attic and feels unwanted ever since her dad died. But later after confiding her feelings to an unknown teenage love on school internet chat rooms she finds that she wants more from life and ends up meeting her true love, but as storys always go, true loves path never runs smoothly. Both Austin and Sam want to attend the same University called 'Princeton'.

Setting and location:
The settings or location are high schools, as we see all different types of teenagers and how they are coping with the demands of high school and trying to find out there place in the school. This settign of a high school suits the film well as they are teenagers leaving for university, they want to follow their own career choices, but find their lives have already been mapped out for them by their demanding families. Sam Montgomery is used as a slave and a personal waitress for the step mother and step sisters, and Austin Ames "Prince charming" is being bossed around by his dad into taking over his fathers car business, which is not what he wants, as he too wants to go away to University. As they both wants to go away from home to University.

Generic Iconography:
The Iconography in this movie is quite easy to noitce, for example the step mother and sisters are portaying a money oriented faimly that have plastic surgery and wear pink clothing and have fake hair and nails. We noticed from their that Sam "Cinderella" doesnt fit into their world as she is very natural looking and doesnt want to foolow her step mother. We notice an instant divide between them because of their visual looks and the language they use. For example the step mother has a bad attitude to education as she bins Sams Univeristy acception letter, because she wants to keep her at home cleaning, rather than being successful and move out of the house. Also Sam is more deep in her personality than the step faimly she lives with, they just care about looks and money, whereas Sam just wants freedom and universty. Sam also drives around in an old bagger car that looks rusty, and her step mother drives a car that looks expensive. This visually shows how unfair her life is and how she is not really like them.

A Cinderella Story- Original Soundtrack

Below are all the songs on the movie soundtrack and album. Hilary Duff recorded many songs with her sister on the album soundtrack, and some are taken from her own album. We wanted to look at the soundtrack for this movie as it is very modern and the genre is what our film suited. However we decided in the edn that our chosen music would have to appeal to a male and female audience, whereas alot of this music is particualy girly and american. We wanted to chose our soundtrack by a artist from the UK.

Our Lips Are Sealed" - Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff
"Anywhere But Here" - Hilary Duff Taken from Hilary's album Metamorphosis
"The Best Day of My Life" - Jesse McCartney
"Girl Can Rock" - Hilary Duff
"Now You Know" - Hilary Duff Originally sung in the movie by Kara DioGuardi
"One in This World" - Haylie Duff
"Crash World" - Hilary Duff
"To Make You Feel My Love" - Josh Kelley
"Sympathy" - the Goo Goo Dolls
"Friend" - Kaitlyn
"Beautiful Soul" (Cinderella mix) - Jesse McCartney
"I'll Be" - Edwin McCain
"Fallen" - Mya
"First Day of the Rest of Our Lives" - MxPx
"Metamorphosis" (live) - Hilary Duff (Target bonus track)

Songs Not Included in the Soundtrack, But Are in the Movie:

"Hear You Me (May Angels Lead You In)" - Jimmy Eat World
"Falling For You" - Busted
"I'm Your Angel" - Celine Dion
"Rescue Me" - Fontella Bass
"Going Out With A Bang" - G-Sleep
"Never Gonna Stop" - Johannah Halvorsen
"Tear The Roof Off" - Lo (feat. Misery III)
"I Need Your Loving" - Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford
"Coming Right Back" - Soul Partol
"Stolen Kisses" - The Peak Show
"Hit The Decks" - Cirrus
"Where Ur At" - 1200 Techniques
"Straight Laid Out" - Cirrus
"I Met A Girl" - Wheat

A Cinderella Story - Research

Below is a detailed description of the storyline of the film:

Cinderella never had it this bad. Cinderella story is a twisted and hilarious update of the classic fairy tale, with main character high school senior Sam Montgomery as “Cinderella” . She lives at the beck and call of her self obsessed step mother Fiona and her wicked or ugly step-sisters, who treat her more like a servant than a member of the family. This is the reality version of the fairytale, the fairytale has been cleverly updated asthough they are a dysfunctional family with everyday problems. Although Sam has more to deal with than the average teenager. Her step mother is very plastic looking she has long fake blonde hair and always dresses outrageously in hot pinks. The step- sisters are twins who are typical teenagers who argue and fight, but they always seem to stick together when it comes to battling with Sam “Cinderella”.
With her sights set on attending Princeton, Sam finds her dull social life boring yet complicated, when she chats to her prince charming online. But when her anonymous emailer turns out to be her high school’s popular guy Austin Ames, which she couldn’t believe, so she ran away leaving him and while running away she drops her mobile phone, this is quite an interesting update to the fairytale, as in the original Cinderella drops her shoe and this film shows her leaving her mobile phone.
Fearing rejection if her secret is revealed, Sam dodges Austin's efforts to discover the identity of his princess. Will Sam let fear hold her back, or will she find the courage to be herself and claim the life she's always wanted? Her chance at happily ever after depends on it.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Clifford Werber Production, in association with Dylan Sellers Productions.
Directed by Mark Rosman, A Cinderella Story is written by Leigh Dunlap and produced by Clifford Werber, Alyssa Goodman, Hunt Lowry and Dylan Sellers.

Main Cast:

Hilary Duff
Chad Michael Murray
Jennifer Coolidge
Regina King


Genre:
This is more than just a Cinderella story as Sam is not just doing all this for her self, but also for her friends at the diner. They hate her Step mum just as much as Sam does. It is a romantic comedy for teens and adults. Teens will enjoy the love story and the theme of a non-popular girl finding her way. It's best described as "cute" because it doesn't make you crack up laughing, or cry, as it is just a cute and innocent storyline. I know there are many versions of the Cinderella story, but this is one of my favorites because it is realistic and placed into the present time period. There is no magic in this. Everything could really happen which will make it even more enjoyable for young girls and teens to watch.

helpful sources:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/acinderellastory/index.html
http://www.viewpoints.com/A-Cinderella-Story-review-1d7b1

Reseach- 'Not Another Teen Movie'

Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 comedy film released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of the teen movies and other cinematic portrayals of adolescence which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades. While the general plot is based on She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You, the film is also filled with allusions to numerous other films.

In the stereotypical high school community of John Hughes High sexy Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), a popular cheerleader, separates from her boyfriend, Jake Wyler (Chris Evans). After Jake discovers that Priscilla is now dating strange and socially inept Les (Riley Smith) just to spite him, one of Jake’s friends, Austin (Eric Christian Olsen), suggests seeking retribution by making Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), a "uniquely rebellious girl", the prom queen. Jake attempts to court Janey's love, but faces adversity from his own sister Catherine (Mia Kirshner), who is sexually attracted to him, Janey’s unnoticed admirer and best friend Ricky (Eric Jungmann), and memories from his past football career. Catherine eventually helps her brother by slightly altering Janey’s appearance (taking away her glasses and ponytail), instantly making her drop dead gorgeous.

Meanwhile, Janey's little brother, Mitch, and his friends, Ox and Bruce, make a pact to lose their virginity by Graduation even though they are still in their Freshmen year. Mitch tries to impress his longtime crush, the beautiful Amanda Becker (Lacey Chabert) with a letter professing his love for her. Ox says that he doesn't have a chance with her.

As the prom draws near, Jake draws infamy among his peers after he fails to lead his football team to victory at the state championship game the year before. The situation is further worsened when Austin tricks Jake into telling Janey about his plan to spite Priscilla by pretending to whisper the secret bet in Janey's ear, causing her to immediately leave Jake. During prom night, Austin and Janey go together, jealous Jake and Catherine have a dance off with Austin and Janey. With Catherine dancing in a sexual manner with Jake. Janey runs off crying.

Meanwhile Mitch and his friends are having a lousy time at the prom until Amanda Becker arrives and Mitch gives her the letter and Ox later hooks up with Catherine.

Jake is awarded prom king and the principal reads out that the votes for prom queen are tied. Everyone thinks that it is between Janey and Priscilla, but they are shocked to find that Kara and Sara Fratelli (Samaire Armstrong and Nectar Rose), twins conjoined at the head, win prom queen. During the traditional prom king and queen dance, Janey supposedly left with Austin to go to a hotel. But while at the room he finds Austin having wild sex with a girl but is shocked to find that it is Priscilla not Janey while the weird Les videotapes with his pants down supposedly having an erection, Austin tells Jake that Janey "ran home to her daddy". Jake angrily punches Austin and Priscilla for what they had done to Janey, then punches Les for "being really weird"; afterwards he runs to Janey's house only to learn from her father that she is going to Paris for art school.

Jake arrives at the airport and confronts her before she can board the plane, and uses a plethora of clichéd lines from other movies (such as She's All That, Cruel Intentions, American Pie, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink) to convince her to stay in America. His final (and first original) speech suggests they would be better off apart, but Janey mistakenly believes he's quoting The Karate Kid, and she decides to stay with him.

List of films used within “Not Another Teen Movie”:

10 Things I Hate About You
American Beauty
American Pie
Better Off Dead
The Breakfast Club
Bring It On
Can't Hardly Wait
Cruel Intentions
Dazed and Confused
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Full Metal Jacket
Heathers
The Karate Kid
Lucas
Never Been Kissed
Pretty in Pink
Risky Business
Road Trip
Rudy
Save the Last Dance
She's All That
Sixteen Candles
Varsity Blues

Repertoire of elements of “Not another Teen Movie

Repertoire of elements of “Not another Teen Movie


Setting: American high school
Narrative: Parody of many teen movies. A poor geek girl gets a make over by main jock guy for him in time for prom. He gets his mean sister to do the make over; if the girl wins prom queen she wins her bother.
Characters: Mean girl, poor geek girl, main jock follower jock friends.
Title: “Not another teen movie”
Mise-en-scene: High school, money, teenagers, teachers, cars, American football, prom setting, homes, parent.
Written by: Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson.
Producer: Neal H. Moritz



Paradigms: high school, poor geek girl, mean girl, main jock guy, modern music, money, teenagers, parents, teachers and love.

Cast and characters:
Chyler Leigh as Janey Briggs (The ugly pretty girl)
Chris Evans as Jake Wyler (The Popular Jock)
Jaime Pressly as Priscilla (The Nasty Cheerleader)
Eric Christian Olsen as Austin (The Cocky Blond Guy)
Mia Kirshner as Catherine Wyler (The Cruelest Girl in School)
Deon Richmond as Malik Token (The Token Black Guy)
Eric Jungmann as Ricky Lipman (The Obsessed Best Friend)
Ron Lester as Reggie Ray (The Stupid Fat Guy)
Cody McMains as Mitch Briggs (The Desperate Virgin)
Sam Huntington as Ox (The Sensitive Guy)
Samm Levine as Bruce (The Wannabe)
Lacey Chabert as Amanda Becker (The Perfect Girl)



Soundtrack:
Tainted Love (Soft Cell) - Marilyn Manson
Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode) - The Smashing Pumpkins
Blue Monday (New Order) - Orgy
The Metro (Berlin) - System of a Down
But Not Tonight (Depeche Mode) - Scott Weiland
Message of Love (The Pretenders) - Saliva
Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order) - Stabbing Westward
99 Red Balloons (Nena) - Goldfinger
I Melt with You (Modern English) - Mest
If You Leave (OMD) - Good Charlotte
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths) - Muse
Somebody's Baby (Jackson Browne) - Phantom Planet

Story Board

Location Pictures

Location Pictures for are trailer

Side Corridor-
Bath room-

Total Film- research for magazine cover ideas

Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom’s second best-selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. The magazine was launched in 1997 and is published every four weeks (13 times a year).

Features

Each month, TF provides a range of features, from full-length interviews, with established and up-and-coming actors and directors, to major film previews, from Top 100 lists to retrospective pieces — all illustrated with film stills and profile shots. All issues contain The Total Film Interview — an in-depth chat with a celebrated actor or director, along with a critique of their body of work and a rating of each major film to date.
In 2004, a Total Film survey of 25 British film critics produced a list of their Greatest British Films of All Time. In 2006, Total Film released a magazine featuring the top 100 films, as selected by a readers' poll.

Sections

Screen
The main cinema reviews section. Major releases receive comprehensive coverage, with a star rating out of five and the magazine's own Predicted Interest Curve — a graph that demonstrates which moments of a film are likely to hold the viewer's attention. Also briefly listed are similar recommendations under "See this if you liked..." Smaller films receive a concise review and rating. The end of the section is devoted to the current U.S. and UK box office charts, TF's own "Top 5" and summaries of any films that were not reviewed in time for that month's print deadline.

Buzz
(Formerly two sections entitled "Access" and "Rough Cut") provides details on upcoming films including new releases, film events, new talent, interviews and fun articles.
Lounge
(Formerly "Spin") is a home entertainment guide, including latest DVDs and (occasionally) soundtrack CDs, movie-related books and games. There is also a periodic retrospective of a particular film, entitled "Lounge Loves", as well as other large-scale features that are DVD-related.

The Total Film Quiz
A four-page section generally includes a montage round, a crossword and a variety of questions. Answers to the montage and crossword are made available in the next issue whereas answers to the quiz questions are readable with a mirror in that specific issue.

Each month, TF offers a DVD or other film-related prize for each published letter. Additionally, TF features a monthly competition, which can be entered by post or text message. Prizes are usually hardware.
The magazine usually finishes with a one-page parody of a recent release entitled "The Abridged Script".

Former American offshoot

In September 2000, Imagine Media, a U.S. division of The Future Network, plc. launched Total Movie, the American offshoot of Total Film. A major selling feature was the enclosed DVD with each issue filled with trailers, game promos and short films. Some of the latter included the Star Wars/COPS parody, Troops, The Dancing Cow (directed by Taz Goldstein, and photographed by renowned cinematographer John A. Alanzo), The Killer Bean 2, The Second Comeback and Paranoid (adapted from the poem by Stephen King — the first Dollar Baby ever released on DVD). The publication lasted only four editions (#1 Sep/Oct 2000, #2 Dec/Jan 2001, #3 Feb/Mar 2001, #4 April 2001).
Total Movie was then purchased by Versatile Media One who picked up where Imagine left off and published issue #5 in October/November 2001. Total Movie folded once again after issue #10 in September 2002.

Foreign editions

Licenced local editions of Total Film are/were released in many countries like Turkey, Russia , Serbia, Croatia (no longer published), and others.

Total Film Forum

Since 2004 a number fans of both films and readers of Total Film magazine have been sharing their views and experiences on the Total Film Forum. It was started in 2004 and has grown since.

British film research for possible magazine cover

The british film magazine was the first an online site that covers the best of british talent, which combined the talent of people around the world both infront of the camera and behind. This magazine can be read in up to 50 countries. In the year 2005 it became a one hundred and eight page magazine for people to read about the films and DVD's being presently reviewed.
This magazine is showing the success of britsh film makers and actors, which is why we felt this would be an approriate magazine to use, as it looks positively at the Bristish film industry.
However we could not use this magazine, because later we found out this is not a proper published magazine it was actually a website, which is www.britishfilmmagazine.com
So therefore we could not use this because it was not a real magazine that could be brought from the shelves in shops.
We also experienced problems with another magazine choice. As we wanted to use Empire Magazine to advertise our movie. However we released that Empire Magazine only tends to advertise Action movies that are quite masculine. So this means that our chick flick movie Miss-Fit would not be suitable for this type of magazine.

Example of magazine covers

These are examples of the magazine covers we looked at:

Teenage movie and Chick Flick Posters

"MEAN GIRLS" and "A CINDERELLA STORY"

These posters that we looked at were very helpful. We analysed the layout of the posters from the following films: mean Girls, Not another teen movie, a Cinderella Story and She's the man. With the mean girls poster we liked the use of colour and the way in which the characters are placed, as you can already notice a divide between the social groups just by looking at the poster. Although it doesnt give too much away. We decided the base of poster ideas mainly on the mean girls poster, as the outfits and positioning on the characters were quite symbolic to the genres signifiers.

The poster on the right was for iconic teenage movie Mean Girls. As you can see from the poster is looks very girly with the use of pink, reds, revealing clothing and high heels. The background is very plain, which makes the purpley/pink writing stand out from the background. This posters is mainly what we decided as a group to base our poster on. We liked everything about the poster. So when we later created our own poster to advertise our media product, we had mean girls poster on our mind. We also looked at many other film posters but they were not as suitable for our film as this one above. For example we considered A Cinderella Story's poster layout, but this was not right becasue it was based on a well known fairytale that has been given a modern twist, whereas our film is more like mean girls. The poster for A Cinderella story is shown below:

As you may notice the colours used on each of the posters are very different. The mean girls poster is more girly and uses all ways to catch your atention, which pretty girls in revealing outfits, to colourful bold titles. Whereas A cinderella story is more basic and has an inncoent approach, as a white background is used, the title is in a blue colour, which is not stereotypically girly. Also the girl character "Hilary Duff" is not viewed in a sexual and seductive way, if anything she looks like a tom boy who wears a dress with trainers, althought the trainers are pink this could sigify the fact that she is still a girl who is soft and innocent. The fact that she is on his back on the poster shows friendship and again perhaps an innocent attitude to their relationship, whereas mean girls is more suggestive and poster creates the idea of more sexualised girls that are aware of the looks and power. The girl in a cinderella story seems alot more unaware of her looks.

Considering all the ideas we discussed we went for a mean girls style as the characters in our film "Miss-Fit" have a simialr attitude to mean girls characters.
Chelsea, the lead character in our film "Miss-Fit" is very similar to Regina George in "Mean Girls". however our geeky character Lily has simialr qualities to Sam Montgomery in "A Cinderella Story".

Distributors Information

Distributors

A film distributor is an organization which puts money into the production for marketing purposes and to make sure of the screenings of it. Marketing involves the creation of the adverts for the film whether it be for magazine, newspaper, posters, television advertisements, trailers etc. They must also arrange adapted media for foreign countries, this means subtitles in order for all audiences to have an understanding. It is up to the distributor to convince the exhibitor of the success of the showing and the profit which will be made. Once arranged it is then decided the amount of gross ticket sales to be paid to the distributor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Film_Distributors

In the United Kingdom unlike Hollywood many films are independent or co-dependent productions. Hollywood studio outputs are made to be sent all around the world where as the majority of UK films are not. Canal and Image UK are two of the right holders in Britain presently.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/researchers/distribution/british.html

It is clear to see that the British film industry has increased massively over the past few recent years to thriving £3.3 billion industry that has thousands of small companies behind it.

http://www.psi.org.uk/news/pressrelease.asp?news_item_id=34

For our film “Miss-Fit” we noted all the films we had researched and the distributors behind them and they were:

· Mean girls – Summit Entertainment
· Not anther teen movie- Columbia
· Cinderella story – Warner Brothers
· White chicks – Columbia and Revolution
· Miss Congeniality – Warner Brother
· The Proposal – Touchstone Pictures
· The ugly truth – Columbia and Lakeshore Entertainment
· The princess diaries – Walt Disney Pictures

By looking at the list above Columbia and Warner Brother are two distribution companies that are popular among movies in the market. We chose Columbia for the reason of our film is a high school based comedy teen movie. Similar to ours is “Not another teen movie”, which a successful movie was showing us that Columbia understand the best methods of distribution for media like our production.

Distribution Company

Distribution Company- Columbia

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. It forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
Columbia Pictures is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
In 1982, the studio was purchased by Coca-Cola; that same year it launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola divested Columbia, which merged with Tri-Star. After a brief period of independence, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989.

Time plan dates- begun 14th September 2009

Filmed-

September -14th (Walmer Science College)- Used Dolly
-21st (Castle)
-28th (Walmer School)
-30th (Beth’s House)

October – 5th (Danielle’s house)
8th- ( Walmer School)
12th (Walmer School)

Half term- no filming (10 days away, home research)



Editing time:

September- 17th (captured all clips and decided on the best ones to use)

24th- (more batches capturing of the clips that we recently added)

October- 1st ( storm room 1 taking turns on the editing as a group )

14th, 15th, 19th, - editing

November- 2nd- Editing storm 1

Distribution Company logo

Distribution Company logo

Columbia's logo, a lady carrying a torch and draped in the American flag (representing Columbia, a personification of the United States), has gone through five major revisions.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98u8GRcnPm8

Major U.S. film studio. It originated in 1920 when brothers Jack and Harry Cohn formed a company with Joe Brandt to produce short films and low-budget westerns. It became Columbia Pictures in 1924. Harry Cohn, who served as president and head of production from 1932 until his death in 1958, was the driving force behind its success. The studio produced the 1930s films of Frank Capra and many other successful films, including All the King's Men (1949),

Time plan

Distribution Company-Films

Distribution Company-Films

This is a list of all the films that Columbia Pictures have produced in the last 2 years. The highlighted films are films that are of a similar style or genre to that of which we have made a teaser trailer for.

2008

• Made of Honor
• The Other Boleyn Girl (co-production with Focus Features and BBC Films)
• 21
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan (co-production with Happy Madison Productions)
• Hancock
• Step Brothers (co-production with Apatow Productions, Relativity Media, and Gary
• Sanchez Productions)
• Pineapple Express (co-production with Apatow Productions)
• The House Bunny
• Lakeview Terrace
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Quantum of Solace (co-production with EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

2009

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

The Pink Panther 2 (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

The International Angels & Demons (co-production with Imagine Entertainment)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Relativity Media)

Terminator Salvation (Internationally) Warner Bros. (Domestically)

The Damned United (co-production with BBC Films)

Year One (co-production with Apatow Productions)

The Ugly Truth (co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment)

Funny People (co-production with Universal Pictures, Happy Madison Productions and

Apatow Productions)

Julie & Julia

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (co-production with Sony Pictures Animation and Sony

Pictures Imageworks)

Zombieland co-production with Relativity Media

Time Plan-Point of View

14th September

To begin filming we started with our strongest idea of the mean girl and sidekick walking down a corridor. Danielle and I were filming. As I was about to be filmed, I worked the camera. This involved using the dolly and moving backwards with the girls. Another shot needed was travelling up them while walking; the dolly made it easy to do.

In the same corridor my character had to walk in the opposite direction. It was difficult getting the shot of me walking into the two girls. It was because we needed to get a reaction shot clearly, to solve this Danielle took the camera off the dolly and stood at the side of the corridor; at the point of impact. It took all day to finish as the bell rang or people were messing around in the back round. Also Suzy and Grace kept laughing; reasons for this were incidents such as getting hit in the face with sunglasses.

-Beth


21st September

It was annoying going down to Castle Community College’s astro turf due to the equipment. The tripod is easiest yet still heaviest to carry as it can go over the shoulder, but it still hurt. Unfortunately not many people were playing football, but we made it work by zooming in.

Apart from one of the footballers getting attached to the camera; it was a good day of filming. Suzy took charge of filming as to share it out over the entire project. Trying to film just the feet for one scene, actually kicking around the football was quick work. The thought behind filming the football academy was to portray Tom’s character “Rob” as a footballer himself. As all American chick flicks seem to have jocks and we thought we’d English it up.

The weather was really sunny and hot which keeps in with our films idea of being in the summer.

-Grace


28th September

Today we stayed at Walmer School to do as much filming with Tom as we could. We tried to get it done quickly as Tom is not in our group he needs to get on with his own work. The only reason we haven’t yet filmed him is because of him being busy. With me filming we chose a quiet corridor on the second floor to shoot another scene of Beth falling over but this time Tom helping her up. We used the dolly to show movement as if another character. As everyone was needed in filming except me, I filmed. Everything went smoothly; the only problem was the direction for people to leave on screen. That was sorted easily by using the idea of a lingering look making it so they leave separate ways.

We needed “Rob” in a scene with “Lilly” so that the audience see the connection. Suzy filmed in the common room, didn’t plan a close up but she did and it worked really well. The common room worked well as it was empty unlike the library and there were books. It rained, so it was good we needed no filming outside.

-Danielle


30th September

·Close up of alarm clock
·Beth falling out of bed
·Beth as “Lilly” getting ready in a mirror



12th October

Suzy pushing Beth by the lockers
Re shooting the second floor corridor with Tom, Suzy, Beth and Grace
Tom and friend in classroom


12th October

We had to get the bus to Danielle’s house, as she lives in Kingsdown. The rain didn’t help but at least the filming was all inside. I realised as soon as we got Danielle’s house how I had forgotten the tape at home! I couldn’t believe it, the filming needed to be done. Luckily I phoned home and my dad was able to drive down, and drop it off.

All the filming was of my character (the mean girl) “Chelsea” in her bedroom; which was actually Danielle’s. It was me pretending to be asleep, though I kept laughing because it was weird the others watching me in bed. Using different shots we did me going from getting up to getting ready in the mirror.

Grace was the camera woman today as we’ve been taking it in turns and she’d not done as much yet. It was funny as Grace had to stand on a stool to get an angle looking down; hard within the space but we managed.

After lunch we got the bus back to school except Danielle, got very wet along the way but at least we have done some filming.

Target Audience- 'Miss-Fit

Target Audience

Age: Teenagers

Gender: Female

Info: Chick flick is slang for a film designed to appeal to a female target audience. The term was first used in 1992. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, "chick flick" is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based (though not necessarily romantic).
The main purpose of a chick flick is to entertain the audience with humor, with a bit of romance. It usually focuses on teenage girl’s lifestyles, boys and gossip which are why the target audience is young/teenage women as they relate their lives with the characters lives.

Are film is a female dominated film

Target Audience

Target audience

The primary group of people something is aimed at is known as a target audience. It is an important in marketing and advertising to know who their target audience is and have a secure analysis on them; by knowing lots about the certain group, work can then be produced using techniques that appeal to the target audience. Information can be carried out by market research. If not enough is known about the audience then efforts put towards succeeding will become expensive as difficult with out the right knowledge. There are many categories media institutions have to consider and these are age group, gender, marital status (single people, married, ages and gender within those situations). Combinations also apply such as women between the ages of forty and fifty. Although other people within different categories who are not the main target audience, they may be interested, depending on personal taste.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_audience

For our production of “Miss-Fit”, before making the film or even story boarding ideas, we decided on our target audience. This was done as to make it easier on ourselves when coming up with ideas for our teaser trailer. By knowing we were aiming at teenagers between the ages of twelve and nineteen, all which was created was in way that our age group would find appealing. Not only is our advert at the that age group but also bringing the category of female gender; making “Miss-Fit” having a combined target audience of female teenagers. This category could also be known as the social status of lower middle class, within this class are supervisory, junior managerial and professional. It was thought this best suited our target audience due to some being in the working industry. A study help between January -December of 2006 in Britain; indicates that the lower middle class has the largest number of people in that category from the ages fifteen plus.

Though “Miss-fit's” age group starts at twelve, there is no research to provide any information of below fifteen. Due to being the biggest out of all the classes, in the industry there is more chance of money being made as such a large audience range. A majority of lower middle class is woman at 7, 581 to 6,400 of men populating Britain. More females increase the chances of popularity if shown around the United Kingdom. The year before in 2005 Britain Lower middle class still dominated with more females to males with a total of 13,800; the totals of both 2005-06 highlights a slight increase over the year and if this continues in the future the larger “Miss- Fits” target audience will be.

When thinking about females between the ages of twelve-nineteen, it is thought that their characteristics themselves are usually making them self actualises and esteem seekers. Self actualises are people focused on relationships, want to be different and creative, wanting to explore change with little thought for others. Esteem seekers questionable sorts who are materialistic and aims for what typically is thought of as success. “Miss-Fit” satisfies all those people as it is what the film is about.

Audience individuals are most likely to be according to population class part of family units or students due to age “Miss-Fits” target audience. Secondary research suggests that in total 38.2% of the UK is populated by families or students making it a high percentage, increasing potential audience size.

We didn't really have to do any research on our target audience because we as team member are all in that group, and we are surrounded by similar people from day to day. Under the impression of if we like it and when telling friends about our ideas if they agree we believe to be on the right track. For thinking about the story line we considered what other films in the same genre do and techniques used. We researched the films “mean girls”, “Cinderella Story”, “Not Another Teen Movie”, “The Proposal”,” Miss Congeniality”, “White Chicks” and “The Ugly Truth”. It was apparent that all these successful films were either totally or partly from the point of view of a female main character. This suggests that the female audience are more likely to relate to the main character. All the films actually set in a high school and these films I felt aimed just at high school teenagers where as other like the “The Proposal” had a broader audience of all females. With this insight it was clear the storyline must be from a female point of view and set in a high school. This research showed us how nearly every story line in similar films are either man wants woman or woman wants man and the hurdles they have to overcome to get them. Due to such typical plots we felt it would be too different to stay with our chosen target audience to change that.

The adverts of the films researched were sort of repetitive in the method used on timing. Timing used in all where fast shots keeping in with their choice of music and slow ones when conveying the major plot of the movie. Music in all is modern, popular tracks that the age group would listen to. When with a larger target audience the films keep it modern but not a choice that was popular at one point as to not aim more at an age group then another.

“Miss-Fit” has a quick rhythm to it like all the films researched did except for the difference of them having slow moments, for when the audience discover the plot. As there will not be a lot of talking in “Miss-Fit” because in this case we feel actions speak louder than words; the only slow moments will be to indicate the plot of a character being in love with another character.

Also I believe that having the majority of our trailer in fast pace shows the confusion of choice of the main male character. Music chosen for the “Miss-Fit” trailer was at the start going to be a blend of three songs. Each song designed to suite each character e.g. the nerd to have a hopeful, quirky sound to it. It was first thought of characters to have their own sections within the advert introducing them. The idea came to an end when the song called “She's so lovely”- scouting for girls was put to the test, and went really well timing wise with the shots. It had also been changed for not to have separate grouped introductions but highlighting the difference between the two female characters and then the relationship each held the male lead.

For further research into what female teenagers between the ages of twelve and nineteen including some males prefer, we will show both trailers to a class of them and ask for feed back.

Film Certificate Rating

Choosing an age certificate that relates to our genre

We have decided to go with 12A as our film certificate. This was because we felt it was the most suitable for our film.

Below is the required information needed to be classified as 12a:

After a seven-week trial in Norwich at the end of 2001, which was accompanied by extensive audience research, the 12A certificate was introduced by the British Board of Film Classification on 30 August 2002, replacing the 12 certificate.

Although the guidelines remained the same as for the 12 certificate, it was now possible for children under the age of twelve to see such films, provided they were accompanied by a responsible adult guardian, who would be required to sit through the entire film with the child, not just purchase a ticket on their behalf.

The definition of "responsible adult guardian" is deliberately wide-ranging - in most cases it will be a parent, but it could equally be an uncle, aunt, older sibling, teacher, family friend or anyone else in a similar position of responsibility. Cinema staff are required to use their discretion to establish whether this is indeed the case.

The 12A certificate was introduced to bring British film censorship more in line with common practice in Europe, Australasia and North America, where many countries have age-restrictive categories similar to a 12 certificate, but in most cases these are advisory. The best known example of these is the US PG-13 rating, which permits children of any age to see the film, but which acts as a warning that it may well contain unsuitable material.
To help parents and guardians reach an informed decision, the reasons a film was given a 12A certificate are supplied in the form of a brief summary of the levels of sex, violence and bad language, to be featured on the poster and press advertisements. This practice is increasingly being applied to U and PG certificate films as well.

Many teenage romantic comedies have the certificate age of 12. This is because they include slapstick funny moments that appear innocent and not too sexual. Teen trailers show many signifiers that are easily identified as suitable for a certificate age of 12. Also being a 12 that is the point where girls and boys are reaching the start of their teenage years. Teenagers are generalised as one type of person, either popular and cool to unpopular and nerdy, these are the two main stereotypes included in many teen films. For our film a 12A would be the best age certificate because it is suitable to 12 and above. Children who are slightly under 12 can come along to see the film, but only with the consent of an adult or guardian.

Website used:

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/592535/

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Name:

(Please tick/circle appropriate answer)

1. Are you male? or female?


2. Do you like chick flicks?

Yes No


3. Would you go with your partner to see a chick flick?

Yes No


4. Do you like films with comedy involved?

Yes No


5. Do you think chick flicks should be made in America?

Yes No


Why: - __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



6. In a storyline with two characters fighting over a love interest, do you prefer the two characters in competition to be:

2 x female 2 x male


Why: - __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

This is the questionnaire we created to find out what are target audience like.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Name: Zoe

(Please tick/circle appropriate answer)


1. Are you male? or female?*


2. Do you like chick flicks?

Yes* No


3. Would you go with your partner to see a chick flick?

Yes * No


4. Do you like films with comedy involved?

Yes * No


5. Do you think chick flicks should be made in America?

Yes No*


Why: - Different countries have different ways. If one was made in England it would easier to relate to. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


6. In a storyline with two characters fighting over a love interest, do you prefer the two
characters in competition to be:

2 x female * 2 x male


Why: - I would be able to see myself in that situation as there would be more of a chance of me seeing a character from my point of view
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


This is one of the questionnaire answered from are person in are target audience.

Questionnaire Feedback

Before we decided on what type of film genre we were going to have, we decided to create a questionnaire that would help us choose. We wanted to ask teenagers male and female what types of films they enjoyed watching. We focused on chick flicks mainly, as we were intrested in seeing whether if attracted a male audience as well as females.
From looking at the reaction from our questionnaire the majority of our target audience are females, as they enjoyed this type of film. The girls also said they would take a male partner to see this type of film. Teenage girls and some of the boys tend to go to the cinema to see comedy films. From our questionnaire the reaction was very positive. Many of the people we asked liked the idea of an English version of a chick flick, instead of being too similar to an American chick flick. This was because different countries have different ways and if this film was made in England it would be easier for our audience to relate too.
We wanted to know whether the audience wanted to see a fight over a love interest, as this is a iconic situation within a teen film. We wanted to find out specifically if they wanted to see two guys fighting over a girl, or two girls fighting over a guy. They chose the idea of two girls fighting over a guy because this would have a more comedy aspect to it, as the girls in chick flick tend to have over the top cat fights, which is very bitchy and this would make it alot more entertaining to watch from an audiences perspective. In addition to this idea, the girls we asked felt that this situation would be more relateable to them as they could imagine themselves in a similar situation. This quesitonnaire really helped us decide what was best. It also made us feel more confident about our ideas, we also think that the use of generic signifiers would make the film easier to relate to, for example the popular bitchy character "Chelsea" would wear provocative clothing and the geeky character "Lily" would wear casual, baggy clothing. So therefore it is easy to see the difference between the two social groups. Teenagers also like to see the Bitchy girl destroyed, and the geeky girl move further up the social ladder.

Details on choosing the name for our film

The latest Details of choosing the name for our film
“Miss-Fit”


Recently we have noticed that an actual media product has been produced on E4 has been named Mis-fit. We only recently noticed this; however this does not affect the naming of our film because we had this name prepared for our film back in early September 2009. Although our spelling of the title is a bit different as our film is called “Miss-Fit”.

We see this as a positive thing for our film because it shows that it is a good title idea due the that fact that a real media product in the television industry shares the same/similar name as our film. Therefore showing it may be a good name to use. The programme Mis-fit on E4 is aimed at teenagers and over 18’s; this is good because our film is targeted at roughly the same age group.

This therefore highlights to us that the title were have chosen is seem young and modern and works with are target audience.

Generic Iconography

Generic Iconography


A typical teenage comedy and chick flicks many iconic theme are used. They are always set in High School location, usually American teen films are set in a rich part of America like Los Angeles or Beverly Hills, because they are a very superficial location, which mirrors the idea of superficial teenagers. The time period for this genre is very modern day and contemporary in a money orientated society.


An iconic example of characters would be an American High School typically having cheerleaders, footballers and mascots, and like in all American teenage films the cheerleaders are always the pretty and popular girls and they tend to be very rich and have a high status within the School social chain, but they always seem to have a low IQ. For example in Mean Girls the popular bitchy character is played by Rachel McAdams, who was also a main character in The notebook, in which she played a girl that appeared similar to Regina George, rich and pretty, but it is set in a different time period. The Notebook and Mean Girls both where released in cinema during 2004, so Rachel Mc Adams would attract the teenage audience. Lindsay Lohan is another typical actress who has appeared in many teen comedies, like Freaky Friday, in which her roles in Mean girls and Freaky Friday was very likable. Another typical young actress that is linked with teen romance and comedies is Hilary Duff, who was a main character in A Cinderella Story.

Many of the characters are either intelligent or attractive and the intelligent girls are always recognised as the geeks and the social rejects. Some generic signifiers also include what the characters dress like, for example the popular girls wear shorts skirts and revealing tops that are usually red or pink. They would normally have long blonde hair and a sports car. In opposition to this the geeky girls would be known for her bad dress sense, glasses and tied up hair. Also the boys within teen movies are very iconic to the genre as they are always good looking, sporty and seem very shallow and vain, much like the pretty and popular girls, who are at the top of the School. The cheerleaders and footballers are almost meant to find each other as they would appear well suited and they desire each others qualities. But later as always the audience finds out that they are not always compatible and the typical stereotypes are challenged.

Also ironically in this film genre the popular girls and guys end up loosing power and status, which then effects the social chain within the school and we then see the popular girls world all apart.

The storyline of a typical teen film is based on relationships between girls and the survival of the teenagers within School. Mean girls was based on the battle of the fittest. The genre is also based on rivalry and revenge between the geeky, odd girls and the popular bitchy girls. The storyline in a teen romantic comedy are always quite girly and they always have happy endings, usually with the geeky girl ruling the school and the audience feeling that they can relate to that character.

A typical story situation a lot of the time is when the popular girl looses the guy and he then realises that he likes the geeky girl, especially after she gets a makeover. The geeky underdog girl then gets noticed because of her new appearance. Something that is a strong iconic feature in a teen romance comedy is the teenagers always having parties and attending School proms. Money and cars are iconic as these are things that teenagers aspire to have. The lifestyle of the teenagers within a movie look exciting and adventurous, which is nothing like a teenager’s lifestyle in reality.

We looked at many films to see if the signifiers are used in all teenage films. From watching teenage movies like Mean Girls we noticed some strong signifiers and paradigms that can easily be identified for this genre, for example the main “Mean” character Regina George had long blonde hair, dressed provocatively, is very rich and drives a sports car. In opposition to this the geeky Cady Heron an, outcast character who was home schooled wore baggy styled jeans, polo shirts and plain tops and long red hair and does not have a sporty car, just rides the School bus. Another stereotypical thing in this film was a gay character hanging around with the outcast new girl from Africa, this shows that socially the gay character fits in with the group that is typically full of outcasts.

Also another thing was when Cady gets involved with the “plastics”, which makes her more popular and she becomes noticed by the guys. When the girls ask the geeky girl to wear pink she has nothing pink but typically the gay character has many pink items and asks if the girl wants to borrow something. This shows that the gay character is being stereotyped into what is expected of a gay man, people assume that they love pink clothing and are very feminine, which this character is portraying. Also blonde girls in teenage movies tend to wear pink, short skirts and act like a bitch, but in reality this is not the case, but it is always used in teenage movies. But these types of characters start of on top, but end up being hated.

Some key signs in this genre are the popular bitchy girls owning the latest pink handbag and driving the best and fastest sports car. The boys are always sporty and live in a large home with a rich mum and dad, the girls all tend to wear “sluttish” outfits which makes them look sexual, confident and powerful.

The music in this type of genre is usually hip hop music or the latest tracks on the music channels. An example would be Missy Elliott music being used in mean girls. Also in A Cinderella story, Hilary Duff’s own music becomes apart of the movie, as it is a good chance to advertise her solo career, by creating the soundtrack.


The message usually in a teen film is that good people overcome evil and selfish people, and always be yourself because in the end people will appreciate who you are in the end.

Colour Chart for Logo

Colour chart for Logo

We have created a colour chart of a variety colours we had to choose from for are logo. We decided to choose a pink colour for the logo, as we feel that pink is a girly, fun colour which is a classic sign a chick flick film.

The colour we chose for are logo was baby pink. We chose baby pink as it shows the innocent’s of the geek but also the main colour for the 'bitchy girl'. We also added a bit of black to the logo to show how in control, evil and over powering 'Chelsea' is of 'Lily'(Geek). We also decided that if we were to use just black and white it wouldn’t have been very interesting or eye catching to the audience and also would highlight to the audience as a chick flick movie.


Popular girl

Colour-Red

We decided that the popular girl was going to wear a bright, 'hot' shade of red as it is considered to be sexual, seductive and angry which is the image we wanted to portray as the feelings she feels for the people around her. On the other hand, red is also known as the colour of love. We felt that it was a good idea to show two sides to 'Chelsea'. The love side is her vulnerable side which refers to her relationship with her boyfriend but in contrast the angry, seductive side is what she portrays to everyone else, like a hard front so she won’t get hurt. Finally, it also shows she is in control and wants to stand out as it is an eye catching colour.


Colour-Black

Additionally, we decided that the popular girl would wear black as this signifies mysterious, evil and darkness. This links to the angry side that she shows to everyone.

Colour-Purple

The colour purple represents hurt and pain coursing. The popular girl has to wear purple as it signifies the hurt and pain she is coursing to the geeky girl and the main guy.


Geeky girl

Colour- Light Pink

The geeky girl in our trailer wore light pink as it could be seen to represents her childlike attitude and the girly side that’s hidden within herself. It also represents how she is seen at school as childish.


Colour -White

Additionally, The geeky girl was wearing white as it represents how pure and innocent she is compared to the popular girl. It also represents how shy she is and fades into the background when she is at school.


Colour- Blue

We decided to put the Geeky Girl ‘Lily’ in to blue as it typically represents unhappiness which came across in her character in the trailer. Also, it represents the calm submissive state that she is generally in. Therefore, showing the gloomy place of her life she is in when she is alone.