Medium Term - Start Character profiles + costume design - Done
Long Term - Finish character profiles + costume design - Incomplete
We still need to finish our character profiles and make finale decisions what our costumes are..
Monday, 27 September 2010
Friday, 24 September 2010
Pitch Document
Our webisode is a dance/musical comedy drama, following 4 girls through their day to day life at their performing arts school. As the shows go on the audience start to see the friendships form between these 4 different girls, aiming for that one same dream. Each girl has different traits, and they are each individually different, and as time goes on the audience discover why certain characters are the way they are and why they act that way. Although the storyline it's self will touch on current social issues, which teenagers today may face, the show will have a positive spin on it, as a sort of Glee parody. We hope to bring a comical twist to our dance/musical webisode in hope that this will attract our audience back for more a long with our song choice etc.
I think that this one of our ideas best fits the brief as we have had the most positive audience research feedback on it. After carrying out both online research and manual research the group and I decided that we could have the best success with this idea. With Glee having such a huge fan base this gives us a massive potential audience, and are exactly the target audience of 15 - late 20's that we are heading for. Also with having had Glee come out earlier on in the year, not only are people in the mood for something musical and with a twist but this also gives us a chance to be able to play around with our narrative. Giving our show something fresh and something new for our audience.
Also our narrative fits all the practices and conventions of our chosen genre; it's set in a school, touches on social issues, has the 4 different characters and characteristics, and the same themes of friendship, ambitions and tensions between discipline and freedom. These were all things stated in the brief, which i why i am most happy about choosing this idea and our final one.
The genre we have chosen is actually quite a hard genre to pull off convincingly, therefore we really need to think about our song choices (and get permission for them!) and rehearse as much as possible. If we find it too difficult to capture the right energy for the webisode then we are luckily able to call upon a few drama and dance students we know who said they would be interested to help out if need be. We also need to make sure that whatever social issues we touch on is done in the according way and to not come across offensive to anybody. Also as we will be dancing etc, we need to make sure that we have done a risk assessment for each location and make sure that health and safety are fine.
Pitch 1 feedback
- Do more non internet audience research
- Move the Synopsis more to the beginning to get more of an idea about the story - otherwise a bit confusing.
- Glee fans like the idea!
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Audience Research
here you can see related glee pages facebook users have liked showing the balance of the charaters within glee. After watching series 1 i think the audience grew fond of the characters and their characteristics after watching them go through their individual battles, like Kurt coming out with his sexuality, Quinn and her teenage pregnancy etc, however with glee club, always raising hope.
Here you can see that 6,454,245 Facebook users like Glee the fan page online, covering a huge audience base just after the first season showing that it's a largely popular Tv series and would be good to follow up our genre based around the musical comedy genre like glee.
2,061 Facebook users like dance films, this is a good bases on pursuing our Dance/Musical genre. However, you can see from the 6 people that are shown below the amount of people who like 'dance films' are all girls, and therefore probably signifying that Dance genre is probably aimed more towards a female audience.
426,572 Facebook users like High School Musical. Not as many people who like Glee, so we will probably have to lean our ideas more towards the glee concept rather than HSM even though they have the same sort of concepts.
1,104,107 Facebook users likes the reality tv show Big Brother, 1 of those being Jahmal Crowe who is in our class, which shows that big brother appeals both males and females. We've looked at a reality tv show as we are thinking about having a sort of reality feel to our webisode.
2,437,965 Facebook users like The Hills, majority being females as it's aimed towards a female audience as it's about fashion etc.
All the Facebook users who have liked these pages are likely to be aged between 15 - early 20's this is who we are aiming our webisode towards therefore this research has proved quite important.
High School Musical Research
High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film thatDisney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) ever produced.
High School Musical was Disney Channel's most watched film that year with 7.7 million viewers in its premiere broadcast in the US. In the UK, it received 789,000 viewers for its premiere (and 1.2 million viewers overall during the first week), making it the second most watched program for the Disney Channel (UK) of 2006. On December 29, 2006, it became the firstDisney Channel Original Movie to be broadcast on the BBC. Globally, High School Musical has been seen by over 225 million viewers.
In June 2006, Disney Press published High School Musical: the Junior Novel, the novelization of the successful film. This novel hit number one on the New York Times best-selling list and remained on the list for sixteen weeks. As of August 2007, the novel has sold more than 4.5 million copies, with 1 million copies of the novel's follow-up, High School Musical 2: The Junior Novel, being shipped to American retailers. "High School Musical 3: Senior Year: The Junior Novel" came out on September 23, 2008. Shortly after the success of the original novel, Disney announced that a book series, entitled Stories From East High, would be published in February 2007 with a new book being published every 60 days until July 2008. It also came to England, at the O2.
"I love high school Musical movie..." - Sheena Lee (Facebook Fan)
23,299 people like High School Musical on Facebook.
Glee research
Glee is a musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States. It focuses on a high school show choir (a modern glee club) called "New Directions", at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.
The show's creators, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, first conceived Glee as a film. Murphy selects the series' music, aiming to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits. Songs covered in the show are released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, and a series of Glee albums has been initiated by Columbia Records, beginning with Glee: The Music, Volume 1, which was released on November 2, 2009. The music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over seven million digital sales
The show has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers. The series won the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy.
The show won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy in 2010. Its first season also earned a Peabody Award. It received a comedy writing award at the Just for Laughs conference in Montreal in July 2010.
"Each episode has a theme at its core. After I write the script, I will choose songs that help to move the story along." - Ryan Murphy (Script Writer)
"Glee manages the balance well; it has a strong satiric pulse that doesn’t diminish the characters’ identities or dim the showmanship of a talented cast." - New York Times 18th May 2009
"" as easy as finding a hamburger in mcdonald's I LOVE IT!!!" - Daniel Hummel Puckerman (Facebook fan)
Monday, 20 September 2010
Production Meeting 1
Today Hannah and I had a production meeting, we discussed ideas on our two chosen genres. We came up with a Glee/High School Musical Parody for our Dance/Musical Genre, and for our Teen Movie Genre we came up with a 'Mean girls' based story line about 4 'popular' girls vs 4 'Geeky' girls. Tomorrow we are going to join with Yas and Emma to broaden our ideas further and narrow down which of the genres we will finally choose.
Friday, 17 September 2010
Vampire Movies
80's
The Lost Boys (1984)
The vampires are evil and are shown to be pale and dark eyed.
90's
Interview with the vampire (1994)
2000's
Twilight (2009)
It's not until recently that vampires have been shown in a different light - in the Twilight Saga although they are still pale, they are more glamourised - the sparkle in the day light and the 'good' vampires have golden eyes and the 'bad' blood sucking vampires have red eyes.
Parody's
Vampires Suck (2010)
StreetDance 3D
Above are two parody's of two of the genre's that i have been looking at. Parody's moc other films.
Musical Films
50's
High Society (1956)
Very classical storyline, with most of the songs being about love and relationships.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
A very classical storyline again and revolves around both family and relationships.
The Sound of Music (1965)
Revolves mainly around love and family, in the time of the war. Very classical.
Grease (1971)
The first to be done in this style, causing a massive hit. Being set in the 50's and in a high school.
2000's
High School Musical (2006)
Tv
Glee (2010)
Recently, musical films/TV drama's revolve around teenagers in their school life, such as Glee and High School Musical.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Genre: Teen Comedy Movies
80's
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
1. girls go to a strict school, they rebel with boys, they're not allowed, do they/dont they get together, they get together.
2. girls wanting to have fun, falling in love, growing up.
3. School, clubs, home.
4. Good girls turn bad.
5. school uniform, dancing in the clubs
2000's
Legally Blonde
1. Girl breaks up with boy, girl wants him back, boy still not interested, do they/ dont they, falls in love with someone else.
2. 'dumb blondes', love
3. Harvard, salon
4. Clever people Vs Dumb
5. lots of pink girly fluffy things
House Bunny
1. New girl at school, all get really close, have to win a competition, do they/don't they, they do.
2. Status, dress code
3. boarding school, game show, london.
4. Geek, Posh Totty, Emo, Rebels etc.
5. School uniform etc.
TV Series
Gossip Girl
Monday, 13 September 2010
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Genre - expectations and Conventions
Expectations are from the AUDIENCE.
Conventions are from the PRODUCERS.
"Repetition + Variation" - Steve Neale
SAME BUT DIFFERENT
"Family Resemblance" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Genre as a 'Repertoire of Elements'
Narrative -> exposition/development/complication/climax/resolution (linear narrative - goes in order)
Themes -> common themes presented in new ways (audience aren't keen on change)
Settings -> Verisimilitude (creating a world that's believable)
Characters + Character Types -> Range, Target Audience
Konogrpahy -> Props + mise-en-scene that we may expect to see, may also include action.
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
book cover genre
This is a dark front cover, to go the the title, 'Dark Obsession' you can tell it's a romantic as the picture on it has a woman's legs in fishnets.
This book has a contrast of grey and pink, with a sparkly pink broken heart resembling romance and the sparkles on Coleen's name to show that it's quite a female orientated book.
This book has quite light colours, the woman lying across the front on the boat quite promiscuously goes with the title of the book 'scandalous'.
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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