Assigneny 12

Assignment 12; Individual Planning. Michaela Ives Kingshott.

Drama.

Inspirational Films.

Typical family are brought closer

together and later pulled apart over a terminal illness.

Good use of shots.

Good use of lightening and good range of shots.

My Sisters Keeper.

Evidence of excessive alcohol use.

Good use of lighting and special effects.

Project X.

Idea Exploration.

Timeline.

Normal happy family involving 1 teenage

daughter and 2 parents.

The teenager becomes ill and the mother

expresses her concerns to the girls father on the phone.

The girls mother calls a doctor to there house after

she begins fainting and having black outs.

The doctor visits the girl to check her over

and give her blood tests.

Blood tests confirm the girl has a problem with her kidneys and liver due to excessive

drug and alcohol abuse.

The family find out that the girl has a very rare

blood type therefore finding a donor to help her recover will prove difficult.

The girl begins to have flash backs of nights out partying.

The girl is told if a donor doesn’t

appear in the next 3 months, she has a

year to live.

Characters.

Character One;

Name Alice.

Role Teenage Girl.• Main Character.

Actor Michaela.

Representation Rebellious teenage girl.

Body Language/Facial Expression

Relaxed, always in her own bubble, happy and care free.

Tone/Language Well spoken as she is from a posh family.

Costume/Prop • Casually dressed• Drugs and bottles of alcohol

in flashback.

Character Two;

Name Martha.

Role Mother.

Actor Jhane.

Representation Represents a parental figure.

Body Language/Facial Expression

Up tight, always worried about her daughter, serious expression throughout.

Tone/Language Well spoken and posh.

Costume/Prop Always dressed smart and always carrying a smartphone to take business calls.

Character Three;

Name Doctor Robinson.

Role Doctor.

Actor From outside of group.

Representation Professional doctor.

Body Language/Facial Expression

Friendly and relaxed at first. Later becoming tense and uncomfortable when he learns of the girls illness.

Tone/Language Well spoken, speaks using medical terms.

Costume/Prop • Doctors outfit,• Needle for blood test.

Setting.

Exterior Scenes Interior Scenes

None. • Shisha Café, used for the party scene

• Girls house

Conventions in Drama Examples from films

Drugs and alcohol abuse present.

Characters

Setting

Conventions Of Genre.

Kidulthood-reinforces, young girl taking illegal substances.

Family tends to always be a big thing within drama movies.

Hospitals tend to be used within drama movies a lot.

Conventions Applied.

Convention Use, develop, challenge? Examples from similar films?

1)Young rebellious teenager girl.

Use; the young girl goes out and parties and abuses her body with drugs and drink.

2)Gets into trouble after a night out.

Use; young girl damages her vital organs due to excessive substance abuse.

3)Strict parents cause teenager to rebel.

Use; the teenager is from a well off posh family and later rebels.

4) Innocent person gets terminal illness.

Challenge; the girl becomes Ill with a self inflicted illness not due to cancer etc.

Young girl throws a wild party resulting in her father sending her to a foreign boarding school.

Teenage boys throws a wild house partying resulting in his house getting totally trashed.

Young girl becomes involved with older boys and smoking to her strict parents distaste.

Good man dies from a brain tumour.

Titles.

Use of possession credits on a sepia background adds effect to the era the movie is based around.

Placing the title on a background alone draws attention completely to the title.

Titanic.

1) 2)

3)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Main cheaters are given credit before the movie title, this is to ensure the audience recognise them as the main actors.

1) 2)

3)

Audience.

Audience Element Explanation

Age 15+Teenagers of the age of 15 and over and young adults are more likely to relate to this movies then younger people and middle aged people.

Gender FemaleThe main character in this opening sequence is a female.

Ethnicity Westernised, the UK/USA Westernised people can relate to it more as they are more exposed to alcohol and drugs.

Interest/Hobbies Dancing, Partying.Opening sequence is based around a teenage girl falling ill after abusing her body, therefore teenagers who enjoy going out partying will be drawn to watching this.

Social Class Working/Upper class The family present in the sequence are of upper class society, however working class people can also relate.