Planning - Intial ideas

Film title: just turned eighteen

Target Audience: 13+ Female

USP: A British made film in an American teen angst style. The film contains a popular jock and a bossy rich teen with a suck up best friend. These are some conventions that we thought of when creating our film.

Cast/Roles:

Taylor O – Madison Young, Rich bossy teen (Producer)
Vicky – Jennifer Hill, Madison’s best friend for years (Editing)
Taylor G – Ethan James, Athletic jock pursuing Madison (Music)
Ian – Filming (Filming/Directing)

Narrative: Madison Young is a bossy rich teen from an upper class family and is a stereotypical daddy’s girl, she is a high school student in her senior year and she decided that she no longer cares about anything anymore. Her best friend Jennifer Hill who blindly does what Madison says without looking the other way is trying her hardest to change her new view of life, after being best friends for the past 8 years their friendship has never been stronger. Ethan Wells is the typical socialite Jock who is the number 10 striker on the school football team, he has had is eye on Madison for a few months and this year he vows to woo her before senior prom commences, but she on the other hand is constantly trying to push him away. 

Production Company: Mise-en-Power    Tagline: Giving energy to film

Music: We are going to use happy up-beat music with a voiceover of the main c

haracter to set a school themed atmosphere over the top of the title sequence, this will then in twine with the voice of her talking about her life and introducing some of the characters. The song we are going to use is: Adam Michaels – Love song in my mind (instrumental)

Setting/Location: School/Sixth Form – Used as a school environment
School car park – Used when getting out of the car and
One Leisure used as some sort of shopping centre

Costumes, props etc:  Ethan- Shirt, black jeans, trainers.
                                           Madison – Brown wig, posh clothes, normal make up, purse and bag
                                           Jennifer – Casual clothes and natural make up