Final Idea

Abby aged 17 goes to school in sixth form. She is quite shy and mostly keeps herself to herself. Abby has a best friend called Ella, also aged 17.

Abby has a dream that shows her and Ella being made fun of in her schools common room and then tripping into her crush, Chris, also aged 17.

After a sleepless night of this very descriptive dream, Abby gets ready for school and walks there thinking of lasts night’s events but not knowing what to expect from the realistic dream.

When Abby and Ella take a seat in the common room, the popular crowd start throwing things at the two girls (trying to make them leave).

Abby starts to have déjà vu and realises that what she dreamt last night, is in fact coming true.

Abby is determined to change what happened with Chris who she feels deeply for.

She decides to walk off calmly and is warm and chatty with Chris, this then backfires as the picture that she put in her pocket of Chris while getting ready for school falls out of her pocket.

Chris sees it and it very confused by this weird occurrence. Abby is speechless and doesn’t know what to do next.

Research of Genre

Young protagonist definition: The leading character in a film, usually the main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a real situation.

Stereotypical characters:

In films which include a young protagonist, there is a lot of use of the same type of characters. Some of these consist of characters such as:

·         The popular girl/boy

·         The nerd

·         The emo

·         The clown

·         The rebel

·         The average girl/boy

Typical locations:

·         School/college – Where the character can be faced with problems such as friendships, love affairs, schoolwork etc.

·         Characters home – A place where the character can be themselves, a place where family can be introduced

·         Friends houses – Where friends can gossip about events and issues presented in their lives

·         Parties – Very popular setting for films with young people, where characters can show their wild side, get drunk and share moments that wouldn’t usually occur at school or home

Typical themes:

·         Relationship problems – love, friendships, family

·         Friendships – social group or cliques

·         Love – girl meeting boy, cheating, first love

·         Conflict – arguments with friends, family, girlfriend/boyfriend

·         Alcohol and drugs

·         Sex

·         Bulling – because of being an outcast or being different

·         Everyday problems – with jobs, school work, relationships etc.

Other typical traits:

·         Camera angles;

-          Extreme close up, used to show the emotion on the characters face in an emphasised way or to show the reaction of the character in some kind of event

-          Low angle, used to make a character look vulnerable or powerless

-          High angle, used for the opposite reason to make a character look powerful or intimidating

-          Two shot, used to show two characters talking helps show facial expressions and reactions of both characters and also creates empathy for the audience

·         Sound effects to emphasise action or make something more realistic

·         Dialogue to show characters personalities, give insights into relationships and show characters feelings

·         Music to create a certain mood

Juno - 9 Screenshots of Opening Sequence

Juno's opening sequence is known as one of the most memorable opening sequence's of 2007. The opening sequence is shown after the opening scene and shows Juno walking to the shop to buy a pregnancy test. The opening sequence was used to show the audience Juno's quirky, unique point of veiw. The sequence was hand creating by taking thousands of photos, turning them into an animatic and then drawing each one out to create the effect of Juno walking through her neighbourhood. The genre of the film is Comdey, but uses the same theme of a young protaginist as our film. For our film we want to use the same kind of opening sequence as this when our main character is walking to school. In this film Juno is portraying a young girl, youthful, free and fun.

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Group Details


Bethany Knights
Aged 17
Subjects: Media Studies, Health and Social Care, Food Technology


Lydia De Blangey
Aged 16
Media Studies, English Lit, English Lang, ICT


Georgia Daly
Aged 17
Media Studies, Photography, French, English Lang

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Initial Ideas For Our Film

During our first brainstorms we decided that we were going to create a supernatural thriller, we thought we could do something with maybe aliens, ghosts and murders

Firstly we were thinking around the idea of aliens, a girl finding blue lights in her garden but we soon came away from this idea as we thought it was unoriginal and boring. We then came up with an idea of a girl having a ghost friend, but again we decided that this idea would be too hard to create with the resources we had and that it wasn’t very original either.

After some more brainstorming, we came up with the idea of weird, creepy dreams and decided to develop this idea. We then decided that doing a supernatural genre wouldn’t be as suitable and changed our genre to an independent movie about a young protagonist which suited our idea perfectly.

We elaborated on this idea a lot and came up with the idea we have now about a teenage girl who’s dreams turn into reality. There are still some ideas about her having a romance, friendship problems, and everyday teenage problems. We’ve decided that the main settings will be mixed between her home and school.