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.