Demographic for Boost

Boost- Who my audience is.

I am hoping to gain a teenage audience for my film Boost.

To be more specific this film might also appeal to film students since they watch short films to get inspiration. 

To this end my film focuses on teenage love, paranoia, jealousy and suicidal heartache. With a happy ending 

I feel these themes will attract my demographic since most of them will have some experience in this area. Added to this  I am using young people and hope that the narrative will be identifiable with a large percentage of them.

The genre is romantic drama and although teen films are often focused on horror or action there are films that are attracting this demographic such as ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ and ‘Lymelife’ Both films deal with teenage issues around love and deceit.

Inspirations for Boost

I have selected several short film and feature length films that deal with similar subject matters and themes that my film deals with an example of this is Teen Suicide which is a drama romance with a tragic end same as my short film which is about a young boy who discovers love and goes on an emotional journey with his lover he ends up being the cause of the break up which leads him to take his own life.The feature film leaving Vegas which is about addiction my character also suffers with a strong dependency onEnergy drinks to conclude this post I feel these films follow the same narrative structure as my film.            








This short deals with unrequited love. Like my film it is about teenagers. 
The main protagonist is in love and tries to engage her but it is to no avail
She has no way of dealing with the despair she feels.
We see her high up on the school roof with a rook on her arm, possibly signifying death?
She swan dives off the roof.
It also uses the editing technique of blank screen with text. I am interested in using this for my film
I am also interested in suicidal tendencies in young people and the extreme difficulty of dealing with heartbreak.




Leaving Las Vegas deals with giving up and using and the physiology of thinking that something outside of yourself can make you feel better, which is the same theme that my film will try to attempt.
Also there is a romance connected with suicide as though it is a welcome refuge rather than self murder. 
Suicide is dealt with in this film as a final place of retreat and I want my film to try to convey this. 
However, both my idea and this film deny the truth, that suicide will not bring relief only an end to life.




Lymelife: 
This film has an ensemble cast but within it two teenagers. During the film we see the young boy try to get the girl. However for most of the film she sees him as a friend/idiot and is quite cruel to him. Some of this dynamic I would like to attempt in 'Boost' 


Bad Lands:

The Film Band Lands inspired me to make my film since it's subjects are orientated around destruction. My character is also fixated with acting out destructively but instead of physically hurting others he is emotionally hurting is girl friend and himself.  The film's genre is romantic drama which I am keen to make myself. In Badlands the protagonist goes on a killing spree as does mine, not with a firearm but with a can of 'Boost' and hurtful words which leads to is predictable catharsis, suicide. Both the characters smoke which symbolise destruction and self hatred.





Blue Valentine

The task list

 I will have to create a working title
I will have to research the conventions of my film/ audince research/ delvoment
 I will have to create a script

I will have to create a storyboard

I will have to create a cast list

I will have to find loacations
plan rehersals
I will have to find props

I will have to direct

I will have to shoot the film

I will have to find non copywritied music to go with the film

I will have to edit the film/sound edit the film

The brief

I have to make a 5 minte long film
I have to make a poster for my film
A radio trailer for the film
A film magazine review page featuring the film

I have decided that my genre for my film is drama. The subject matter is passion love pain, selfhated, gulit  and exceptionce. What inspired this subject matter was a break up that I have reasintly experinced and a short film called 'The Plan.' and a feature film called leaving Vagas. The deadline for the film is the 13th of december. Knowing this I know I have alot of planning to do firstly create a script and I will write the first draft this week. Once its been analyses by the media teach and or assitant I shall then decide weather it needs to be rewritten or to move on to the story board. 

Preproduction

I would like to start creating the script for the film I am going to use an open sorce software known as Celtx this allows me to make a script and create other necerythings to help me plan such as a storyboard with created animations to make the storyboard more visaly effective. In todays lesson we went into detail about equipment and reaserch. So for my reseach I will watch and amananalyse  reality drama shortfilms using the world wide web.  The film has to be compleated by december. Knowing this I would like to start filming in two weeks. Knowing that I will be the leading character in the film I will need a camera man and a female to play the role as my girlfriend, since I do drama A2 leval I am confidont that a girl from my drama group would be more than happy to play the role. The two things that inspiered my idea was a short film  call  'The PLAN.' and my break up. Eventhough I have not yet found my female character I know what costume I would like her to wear which would be a gothic girl look or metal head for example dressed in black no lipstick however I would want her to wear alot of eye shaddow. I am going to wear jeans aTshirt compleate with a dark blue demin shirt.