Teen Angst Film Settings

Much like our characters, our locations are associated with teenagers - the school and Priory park. Specifically, within the school we are going to film in the classroom F2.2, the stairs outside the room and multiple hallways. Within Priory park we are going to film in multiple places. We chose these location because they are some of the most associated places with teenagers and therefore thought that it would make the film seem a lot more realistic.

 

Teen Angst Film USP and Target Audience

Our unique selling point is the fact that the story is quite different in the fact that a majority of teen angst films today make the main focus on popularity whilst ignoring the actual problems a lot of teenagers face. The main story behind the film is that the main character is struggling with social anxiety and she sees her best (and only) friend being bullied by the popular girls but she doesn't do anything about it as a result of her anxiety. Our target audience is teenagers but also young adults due to the mature themes expressed within our film. It is probably more aimed towards teenagers due to the fact that the use of mise-en-scene is mainly used to relate to teenagers.

Teen Angst Film Characters

Our characters are fairly typical of a teen angst film; the two unpopular main characters who get bullied by the popular group along with various extras including teachers and students. They characters will be wearing stereotypical items you would expect teenagers to wear. The two main characters have unisex names (Max and Sam) to show that both genders suffer from social anxiety equally. This is also good in sending a message to people who suffer from social, which is that they are not alone. This is quite counter-typical of teen angst films because they usually focus on problems such as popularity. For the costumes, we would just like the actors to wear normal, everyday items that teenagers are stereotypically shown to wear such as: hoodies, jeans, etc.

Teen Angst Film Titles

Our titles are fairly simple. We didn't want something that stood out in order to reflect the fact that people with social anxiety don't want to stand out. We are currently undecided on which font we are going to use, but some ideas include: Verdana and Tw cen MT condensed extra bold. We are going to use either black or white titles (depending on the background) at this point in time. However, if the colours look out of place then we may choose another colour.

Our title "The Lonely Life of a Teenager" makes reference to social anxiety as sufferers can often feel as though they are alone and that the world is against them. We also feel as though it is fairly catchy through the use of alliteration with "Lonely Life" which will therefore make it more memorable.

Teen Angst Film logo

Throughout the planning of our (myself, Joshua Worth and Adam Stubbs) teen angst film, we all collaborated on each part - we each had some form of input on what was going on at each stage - however, we each had an area on which we would focus on. My area was design including the titles and the logo for our film company. Our company name is Lone Wolf Productions; this is a reference to our film being about a socially anxious teenager (hence the word "lone") and we chose a wolf because they are usually depicted as being strong even though some are on their own, this is a reference to the fact that people with social anxiety are strong because of the fact that they face so many problems in day-to-day life.

 

Originally our design was a moon with the silhouette of a wolf howling in it and the name of our company on the bottom. The final design has not changed drastically but now the titles are in the moon above the wolf and I have added effects to the moon to make it look darker in some areas.

In the final product of the film, we are going to attempt to animate the logo so that first an image of a wolf howling appears followed by a white flash where the logo will appear (The head of the original wolf will match that of the wolf in the logo). We have already attempted this to some level of success.

Teen Angst film Storyboard

Hairspray, Adam Shankman (2007), Title Sequence Analysis

Hairspray, Adam Shankman (2007), Title Sequence Analysis

1 sec - "Directed and choreographed by..." in dark green font with cream border against turquoise patchy background with cream coloured TV silhouettes. Titles slowly move to right. Music starts

5 secs - Transition to next scene of particles?

7 secs - "Screenplay by..." flies down along with more particles (no more TVS). Particles slowly spin around

11 secs - White part of particle engulfs screen

12 secs - "Produced by..." in yellow font with spinning blue rectangle in background. Singing starts

17 secs - Titles and rectangle disappear revealing man dancing

18 secs - Camera pans out to reveal more people dancing

23 secs - Multiple squares used to transition

24 secs - "Executive producers..." with dark blue hexagons in background

27 secs - Old fashioned projectors appear and spin around on screen

32 secs - Projector covers screen and transitions to man and woman dancing and "Executive producers..."

37 secs - Camera pans up to show more projectors and more "Executive producers..."

39 secs - One projector turns to reveal image of man and woman crying

42 secs - Projector now shows rockets and rockets appear in background, alongside "Music by..." and "Lyrics by"

44 secs - Everything on screen moves off screen apart from central rocket which spirals to produce 5 rockets. Girl appears on left of screen and starts dancing. "Director of photography..."

48 secs - Same girl dancing and flowers fly from right of screen

50 secs - Girl now in middle of screen and "Production designer..."

52 secs - Girl disappears and pink wave appears on bottom screen

54 secs - Pink wave covers most of screen and "Edited by..."

55 secs - Blue wave appears alongside pink one

57 secs - Blue wave disappears and 3 girls start dancing on pink wave alongside "Edited by..."

61 secs - "Costume designer..."

64 secs - Transition looks like the end of an old film and sequence ends