Juno trailer analysis by Ricki Suri

1. Number of shots used: 105.

The young pregnant girl is a direct relation to our production. The theme of young pregnancy connotes promiscuous lives lead by irresponsible young people. This is explicitly emphasised when the young girls stomach is zoomed in on by the camera, and when it is made the main focus of the camera- when the baby scan is being done.

Clothing used is shown to be everyday easy clothes which are worn by stereotypical teenagers at all times. Although the clothes worn by the 'father of the baby' are some what uncommon are almost stupid. this is connoted when he is shown to be in a serous frame of mind, but is dressed in tight shorts and a hoody. The setting used- households, and the props used also resemble everyday life, for example, lamps, sofa's, flowers and cars. These re very common props to own by the average household including a mode of transport.

It is a Teen Movie, and of Hollywood production aimed at 16-25 year old females, this is because the females are able to identify with the protagonist. In relation to our production- we wish to raise awareness of teenage pregnancy and its downfalls, for example, lack of education and financial support. We also aim to educate young females of the same age (16-25) why having safe sexual intercourse is no laughing matter due to killing diseases.

Progress Report- Fuad Ashor

Storyboard Completed
Script Completed
Finalisation of Casting Completed

The thing we need to focus on this week ( LOCATIONS )

Action Plan and Progress Report 25/1/2010- 29/1/2010

PARMINDER MATHARU

Progress Report

Sorry for the late blog post guys, this week has been hectic for me, therefore I have not been able to do as much as I would normally do. However, I remember what happened last week. Our group managed to achieve a substantial amount in terms of draft storyboarding, finalizing a script, learning to use the camera and equipment such as the tripod, battery charger, microphone and cassettes from Mr Bush's informative tutorial. We managed to finalise the plot and script, as there were changes regarding actors and actresses. This week has been partly effective, in terms of the script and getting to use the camera and equipment.

Action Plan

For next week, we need to have finalised the storyboard, in order to proceed onto the filming which is crucial. One concern is regarding the workload and organisation. Guys, we need to plan out the filming and times to meet up , as we need to discuss arrangements for where the actors are going to meet up;what day and time, that is convenient for them and for us, as our group is not focused enough, though I do understand that we have had other priorities and problems. Fuad, please remember to bring in the storyboard sheets, so that we can review them and scan them on the blog. If the storyboard is complete then, we shall start filming the interior scenes.

The Altered Synopsis of Art House kind of comedy-drama (Juno)- Fuad Ashor

Synopsis

Fun and clumsy Jenny Mistry (Monica Jandu) is determined to get the lead role in this year’s school theatre production, and is facing the obvious ultimate competitor Sharon Bassi (Pooja Mistry), who always gets that lead role. She begins to plot and scheme to sabotage Sharon’s chances in getting the lead role- knowing Sharon’s past she wasn’t at all apprehensive about the idea posed by Zack (Rajneet Sandhu) her best friend.
Ally (Jason Masih) seems to be the only guy that believes in her tells her that she is beautiful and talented something Jenny never heard a guy say before. She kisses Ally leading to her regretfully sleeping with him.
Sharon(Pooja Mistry) Megan (Sukaina Yasin) and Emma (Rosie Allum) are the ultimate bitch queens of the Greenford high that clearly hate Jenny.
Aaron (Sanjay Bhatti), Emma’s on and of boyfriend is the guy Jenny gets a huge crush on not knowing that he also likes her. Jenny now is the midst of her scheming to push Sharon off her thrown as lead actress of all school productions. She attempts to steal the key from Chris (Raheam Amon-ra) Thompson, Sharon’s boyfriend at a house party which opens Ms. Thompson’s (The Music Teacher) cabinet at school which leads to the songs assigned for them to sing in auditions, so she can swap Sharon’s to an embarrassing song that will ruin her chances in being cast for the lead role.
When Jenny is late for a class she is sent to a year seven class where she learns that missing a period means a girl is likely to be pregnant. Jenny quickly informs Zack that she might be pregnant and doesn’t really know who the father is, because it can either be Ally or Chris- since being drunk at that house party therefore she is not able to remember if she did in fact sleep with him or not.
Jenny is stuck in this problem now and is busy with rehearsals at school. Zack threatens Jenny that if she doesn’t tell the guys she will, in favour in scaring her to do the right thing. Jenny gets the DNA results, about to tell one of the guys, however Zack has already told them about her situations and Jenny’s plans backfire.
Jenny eventually gets the role. She finds out the she will be performing on stage with Aaron- who now knows about Jenny. He gets the wrong idea of Jenny, and Jenny agrees, knowing well that what she did was wrong.
It turns out that Jenny’s period was only late and that she wasn’t pregnant at all. With the help of Zack Aaron forgives Jenny and they become item after Aaron dumps Emma publicly.

Script Completed- Fuad Ashor

I will print them out and hand them to whenever I see you.

PLAN

STORYBOARD WILL BE DONE BY MONDAY DUE TO MINER ALTERATIONS IN THE PLOT AND SCENES.

FILMING WILL COMMENCE BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK HOPEFULLY.

LOCATIONS ARE NOW THE MAIN AREA WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON FOR THIS WEEK BY TAKING PICTURES AND STUFF.

WE ARE ABOUT A WEEK BEHIND SCHEDULE HOWEVER WILL MAKE IT UP IN FILMING TIME.

RICKI AND PARMINDER, ONE OF YOU DO JUNO TRAILER ANAYLISIS AND THE OTHER DO LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE TRAILER ANALYSIS.

A MEETING SHALL BE HELD BY FRIDAY AFTER SCHOOL WITH WHOLE CAST OF OUR PRODUCTION TO FILL THEM IN SCENES.

THE MAIN CHARACTER OF OUR PRODUCTION IS NOW MONICA JANDU.

Conventions of teen comedy films

The teen comedy genre was seemingly adapted from the popular 'Coming of Age' films such as George Lucas' light hearted comedy American Graffiti (1973). This film brought new, previously taboo subjects to the screen, such as sex and drugs. Films such as Risky Business (1983) a film about an ordinary, well behaved school boy (Tom Cruise) and his sexual experience, seemed to transform the expectations of comedies, as teen comedies revitalised the genre through its sexual references.

The emergence of teen comedies at the turn of the 21st Century seemed to focus on humiliation, bodily functions and toilet humour. Films such as ' There's Something About Mary (1998) and the sexually explicit ( American Pie) focused on losing one's virginity.The film, Not Another Teen Movie (2001) utilised the raw portrayals of teenage stereotypes such as the Popular Jock, The Bitchy cheerleader, confused Foreign Exchange Student and other portrayals.

Little Miss Sunshine



This particluar clip from Little Miss Sunshine (2006) features sarcasm and irony. The clip begins with Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell) is stating how Dwayne (Paul Duno) is not talking, as evident through the prop of the notepad, which serves as a visual gag. We could use visual gags in our film to convey humour, as the gags create humour themselves, for example, a pie in the face. The clip uses sarcasm , when the family are in the mini van, we could use sarcasm, as rivalry is shown amongst characters which could generate comedy for the audience. Our film trailer could include slapstick, as it relies on the audience's instinctive nature to predict the protagonist in various settings, for example when Jenny gets sent to a year seven class, Jenny's confrontation with her family and other scenes.

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)



This film trailer is from the film Not Another Teen Movie, which is a spoof of various comedy films such as American Pie, Scary Movie and other related films. Within this trailer, there is use of slapstick and gags such as bras which seem to appeal to the audience, as the film as teen comedies include sexual themes and innuendo and evidently uses the iconic stereotypes such as the Popular Jock. Interestingly, the use of puns and repetition in the clip, when the student is answering back could generate humour amongst the audience, as the student's facial expressions show he is being intimidated and pressurised by the teacher who is clearly trying to divert from the discussion, however not with much effect.

Alteration to the Plot

Some bits of the plot as been altered, for a number of reason-

• to acheive the best results in our genre,
• for actors and actresses to feel comfortable in any scenes required,
• Weather isn't such a worry any more, however somewhat needed in a few scenes.

This is the new modified plot with some original aspects to it.

Jenny leaves home without needing her tampons and tells Zack in school that she really wants to take the lead role in the school theatre production. But Megan is the girl, which always gets that role. Jenny is determined to get the lead role this time and wants to prove to everyone that she can do it.
When Jenny is late to a lesson, she is sent to a year seven class, where she learns that missing a period means a girl is likely to be pregnant. She is very worried and tells her best friend Zack.
Ally (someone like Paulie Bleaker in Juno) is the only guy that believes in Jenny and one of reasons for that is because he’s always had a crush on her. Jenny’s never been told she was beautiful or talented, so when that happened, she kisses Ally and regretfully sleeps with him one night.
Jenny begins to have crush on Aaron (Emma’s on and off boyfriend), she thinks he doesn’t have a crush on her but he does too. Emma and her two other friends Megan and Sharon all hate Jenny for no particular reason.
In Rehearsals the music teacher tells them that she will assign them songs to sing for the auditions to see who will get the roles. Megan is confident that she will get the role for sure. Chris who is Sharon’s boyfriend is the music teacher’s son, who has the key to the cupboard that contains the song list which they were required to sing to in auditions. Jenny lures Chris into believing she will have sex with him, so she can steal the key. Jenny gets the key and changes the song Megan was supposed to sing, to an embarrassing one to make her sound stupid and therefore not getting the role. In auditions Megan sings the song, and then the teacher calls for Jenny’s turn, but Jenny is not there. She is collecting the DNA results and now making her way to Rehearsals. At the end Jenny is performing with Aaron who she falls in love (Who is Emma’s on and off boyfriend). Whilst she is performing she holds her stomach looking very anxious.

The Genre Aspect- Fuad Ashor

I have thought about which conventions of comedy our Teen film will be, for example if it is going to be a typical teen comedy with the crude jokes and stereotypes of teenagers that party all the time, or an Art House type of film like Juno or Little Miss Sunshine.

I think that it will best to the Art House element of Teen Comedy which is somewhat more sophisticated and will set us up in a different league for our film trailer.

It will be simpler to achieve the best results, and therefore do a better job in sticking with these conventions, and also crudity in scenes can be limited, so all actors and actresses will be comfortable in doing any scenes.

Our Teen comedy however will apply some conventions of the typical teen comedy through the stereotypical characters of the Jock, Nerd etc. with the aspect of Art House comedy such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine,

To get the feel and atmosphere of an comedy-drame Art house film we will ensure the music is right as it differs from the typical teen comedy's which apply very popular upbeat songs. So for our trailer we should introduce the trailer (so the opening) with a different song,(check out Juno for example), but still come one or to songs from the original song we chose, for example the last one.

Final Casting Pictures- Fuad Ashor

Final Casting Pictures- Fuad Ashor

Low Budget Film Analysis- Teen Comedies

SUPERBAD (2007)

Seth (Jonah Hill) , Evan( Michael Cera) and Fogell (Christopher Mintz- Plasse) are three teenage guys who love to drink and desperately wish to get laid. When a girl that Seth really likes, asks him to get the drink for her party, he sees this as a perfect opportunity to make her his girlfriend. The trio plan out how to get the alcohol, even including Fogell's new fake ID, but things won't got smoothly for the trio. Seth and Evan become separated from Fogell (now called McLovin) and they still haven't got the alcohol for the party that night.

This particular film cost $20 million and is one of the successful low budget films of 2009. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film has direct appeal to the main teenage audience, through its witty humour, slapstick, toilet humour and gags and crude jokes; all of which culminate into a successful teen comedy.

In conjuction with our production, Superbad seems to be iconic of the teen comedy genre, as it's use of jokes, crude humour and slapstick make it popular with the teen audience. The film relates to our production in that , the characters seem to be enjoying life at its fullest; the main protagonists enjoy getting drunk sensless and are on the prowl for hot girls, which is similar to our film, as Jenny enjoys patrying around and meeting guys, regardless of the long term effects.

KNOCKED UP (2007)


Knocked Up follows the life of the lead female protagonist , Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) , who is promoted to an on air role at E! Entertainment Television. While celebrating her promotion, Alison meets Ben (Seth Rogen) at a local night club. After a night of drinking, they end up having sex. Due to a misunderstanding, they do not use protection: Alison uses the phrase "just do it already" to encourage Ben to put the condom faster, which he misinterprets as "forget the condom". The following morning, they quickly learn over breakfast that they have little in common and go their separate ways which leaves Ben visibly defeated when she walks away. However, Alison realises eight weeks later, that she is pregnant!! She calls Ben and they decide to try to stay together and have the baby. However, Ben needs to grow-up first to raise a family of his own. Alison's mother (Joanna Kerns) tries to convince her daughter to have an abortion, but Alison decides to keep the child. Later, Alison and Ben decide to give their relationship a chance.

Knocked Up which is directed and produced by Judd Apatow is distributed by Universal Pictures, which is owned by Viacom. Surprisingly, the film cost $33 million, which makes it an average low budget film. In general, the film shows the conventions of comedy; through its sexual gratifications, toilet humour , slapstick, gags and captivating plot of unexpected teen pregnancy and comedy. As well as this, the film intends to appeal to its audience by showing the serious sides of teen pregnancy, which the audience may find engaging, in comparison to other comedies which vividly manage to show the typical teenage lifestyle.

Knocked Up relates to our film, as we intended to show how teen pregnancy is presented in our film, similar to Knocked up. Knocked up 's use of gags, toilet humour, sexual references, slapstick, sarcasm and irony can be incorporated within our film.Effectively, this would then appeal to our main 16-25 audience and older audiences, who would find the balance of seriousness and comedy more entertaining, as adults could also identify with the characters and plot. Generally, low budget films such as Knocked up use artificial lighting and ordinary settings, like schools, parks, houses and other locations, therefore, we could use these factors in our film.

Action Plan and Progress Report 18/1/2010 - 24/1/2010

PARMINDER MATHARU

Progress Report
We managed to find a suitable cast for our film; the lead protagonist, helper, donor and other prominent characters for our film. Most importantly, we finalised our script and are ready to start storyboarding, as soon as possible. Also, we found suitable locations for the film; the school setting, Jenny's house, interior and exterior shots of the house and other notable locations. However, we have some problems regarding the shooting,as we intend to shoot the film in a warmer, brighter setting, as it is typical of our genre of teen comedy. On a more positive note, we considered shooting the main interior shots of the film and discussed how this could be managed in our group meetings.

Action Plan
For next week, I need to research into the conventions of teen comedy films; looking at jokes, gags, props and how humour is conveyed in the genre and start researching into how our film trailer could appeal to the target 16-25 audience. As well as this, I will research low budget teen comedy films and try to look at how comedy aspects are administered and how they can be implemented in our film. Guys, I will try to do as much as I can, as I haven't been at my best. The priority is to get this information, as it is pivotal for our genre and will need to be administered in our film trailer. We need to start filming the interior scenes and make sure the actors and actresses are available in order to complete filming, as time is of the essence!!

Task for this week

I have completed the Script.

Storyboard will be done during this week, I think
for on tuesday and wednesday after school

1 Low- Budget Film Analysis has to be done (Parms or Ricki)

Images of all location needs to be posted
up

Some kind of lighting equipment
must be found (I'll ask Mr Babou who has some and then I'll also see the Drama department)

Fuad Ashor

FINAL CASTINGS

Protagonist
Jenny- Anaam Zakria

Protagonist's little sister
Jaya- Rabia Zakria

Supporting lead- Jenny’s best friend
Rajneet Sandhu
(I think she should have two best friends)

The Guys
Stephan or Michael- Nicholas Alexander-Cox
Ally- Jason Masih (If better suggestions, comment)
Chris- Raheam Amon-ra

The Crush
Aaron- Sanjay Bhatti

The Plastics
Sukaina Yasin
Pooja Mistry
Rosie Allum

The Extra's
Arun and Karan
Zainab
Prayjot Kumar
More needed- about 15 overall

The Teachers
Ms. Charles
1 more needed

Locations

LOCATIONS

• This Location will be used when Jenny runs towards Zack to tell her that she is pregnant', after the year seven class scene.

• I will be doing more posts like this later, as my Camera battery has ran out and so I cannot take more images.

P.S- and this is what I mean by waiting a few weeks until shooting scene outside, to let trees and plants blossom (Look how ugly that tree looks)

Shooting

I think we will agree to disagree and begin shooting scenes which take place inside- and there are a number of them so this is the list of all interior shots that will be in our trailer

• Year seven class scene
• Bedroom scene1- when Jenny and Zack are talking to each other on the phone in to different bedrooms (split screen-)
• Mum scene(there are 2)
• Train scene
• Performing scene
• Corridor scene, when Jenny and Zack and talking with students walking about (there might be a few of these kind of scenes as they happen frequently in Teen Films)
• Toilet scene for the opening of the trailer.

What we hope to achieve.....

PARMINDER MATHARU

1) Analysis of low budget teen comedy films
2) Finalise the script
3) Think about final characters in our film ( Jenny, the mother etc)
4) Locations
5) Start storyborading.......

Action Plan

PARMINDER MATHARU

1) Script - Should be done, could be improved, although we have a general overview of the
plot , but needs to be finalised so we can encorporate this in the storyboard

2) Casting and auditions- As we discussed in our previous meetings, we have certain suitable
characters for the roles, but we need to finalise their roles in the film


3) Locations- (Holland Park house, interiors of a house etc)


4) Story boarding- Should be done this week, possibly on Wednesday or any time when we
next meet up, so we can make final decisions.


- Guys, I think we should delay the shooting, as the weather is not appropriate for our genre of teen comedy, by having a warmer weather, the atmosphere of the genre can be fully conveyed, the comedy aspect and warm feeling can be enthused in our production.

ZACK'S HOUSE

CASTING

CASTING
I went around school taking down names and pictures of students which I believe were suitable for the roles we have written down. The images presented of the student s are not specifically going to be the characters that are going to appear on the trailer, but just people we might test screen to see who is best for our trailer.

Nazreen Walid 12H

Arun and Karan

Sonu Chetri 12B

Anaam Zakria 12Y

Rabia Zakria 7M3

Ms Charles

Shahernaz Kargar- 12G Raheam Amon-ra- 12Y Sanjay Bhatti- 12C Prayjot Kumar- 8T1

Rajneet Sandhu- 12C

Nichalos Alexander-cox 12A

Sukaina Yasin 12G

Pooja Mistry 12C

TO DO LIST

 Write script
 Draw storyboard
 Finalise casting
 Make decisions on location

Wednesday- Friday I will be very busy and not avaiable to participate in two following days due to an exam on Friday. So therefore work has to be started on Tuesday (Script), Ithink best time is after school in the LRA or Common room.

Action Plan!!

ricki

guy's we must: make the script

start the auditions process

think about storyboarding

and, ensure that we are ready to shoot by the end of next week maximum!!

Also, guys I think we should not wait and delay the shoot. I think if we are well prepared- we have nothing to fear. We could use the recent weather as pathetic fallacy and insist that Jenny feels crap LIKE THE WEATHER LOOL.

HOUSE FOUND

It’s a beautiful house, which captures the London-theme home of the upper-class- and with the eccentric colour that parallels Jenny’s and the movies overall character, with a hint of American culture due to the picket fence, which is an iconic feature to American culture.

It is a very presentable and ‘good-looking’ house, which will look good on camera.

NOTICE
Fuad Ashor
Sunday 17th January I'm going to Holland park to find the house which will be used for the exterior shots of 'Jenny home', and also other locations for landscape and scenery footage as trailer include 1-2 seconds of a very long-shots that can be either establishment shots for school or the next scene of the trailer so audience are aware of where characters are.

Ricki and Parms I'll be at Greenford Station by 12am and if you guys want to join me meet there. Comment on my FB or MSN, don't bother commenting here.

If you comment and I fail to see it or reply just meet me there, I'll wait for max 15mins if your not there I'm gana have to go- cause I'm on a tight schedule/

ricki suri

targets to be achieved:
1. we must get started on the script guys. in relation to this i feel that the script should be made first, then the actors chosen. this is because then we could really see who can impress us, rather than compromising on our production, and remodelling our script.

2. secondly, as i have seen from the feedback by Mr bush, we have kind of decided on the places to shoot haven't we?... i thought we were definitely going to Holland park and then possibly using a hotel.

what we've done this week:
1. guy's, this week I'll be honest (not that i normally am not!). it was not very productive for me. i have thought of possible ideas including using our resources to the maximum (I'll tell you my master plan when i see u guy's).

2. we have discussed the plot, and mentally assigned the actors to their role in the trailer, for example, sukh- being the nerd, give him my glasses and he'll be fine, OR what about bijesh. i know he will definitely do it.

Film Pitch Feedback

PARMINDER MATHARU

Our film pitch presentation generally recieved positive feedback. In terms of our presentation, we generally had a clear idea of the genre and had definitive, concise background research and information for our film trailer, for example the hybrid teen comedy genre, certain stereotypical characters, scenes, plot , audience, appeal to older audiences, the film's enigma codes, ethnic identity and cultural prominence and other useful information. We had a more concise plot, we thought of stereotypes and referred to media theorists such as Propp, looked at other similar trailers such as Mean Girls, Juno etc.

Interestingly, we decided to focus on the teen comedy genre, however, with a more culturalised theme; Indian families and their views on teen pregnancy. This particular, revolutionary, unique idea was approved by Mr Bush, however, we could focus on the conventions of comedy and try to focus on elements of a teen comedy; looking at the humorous elements, gags, funny moments etc.

To an extent, our film could have an art house outlook to teen pregnancy, looking at certain moral messages etc. In order to progress, we had to look at cinematography (lighting, camera angles etc into more detail, by watching comedy trailers, reviewing thier use of camera angles, shots, lighting and other elements). In addition, we have to cast characters for our trailer by doing auditions, finding suitable characters. Also, we have to focus on locations; findinng locations, what time to film, at night or day, taking lighting into consideration.

Film Pitch Feedback

FUAD ASHOR
We presented our film pitch presentation and received generally positive feedback. In doing the presentation, this gave us very useful &valuable comments & views on our overall production which has enabled us to, reconcile various aspects of our trailer production such as casting and if our genre will be, Comedy of sophistication with Art House influences (Juno) or the representative Teen Comedies with humour of a crude nature (American Pie).

Mr. Bush’s Personal Feedback
WWW-
 GOOD PRESENTATION/ FONT & IMAGES
 VERY DETAILED AND THOUGHT-OUT PLOT
 REFERENCES TO CHARACTER THEORIST SUCH AS PROPP
 ENIGMA CODES HAVE BEEN THOUGHT-OUT AND DECIDED
 THE ETHNIC INDENTITY AND CULTRAL DIFFERENCES
 SCENES FOR TRAILER HAVE ALREADY BEEN PLANNED
 ANALYSIS OF OTHER TRAILERS
 RESEARCH ON AUDIENCE

EBI-
 GO LOCATION SPOTTING
 FIND SUITABLE CASTS FOR TRAILER
 MORE DETAIL ON CINEMATOGRAPHY

Questions posed by Mr. Bush
Who decided plot?
Fuad Ashor

Is Jenny an Indian name?
We thought about this and came to conclude that this can either be her nickname or real name due to her being an Indian Christian.

Sum up your film plot in one word?
Well our film plot is bend it like Beckham meets the comical pregnant reality of Juno and the humour characteristics of American Pie.

Ricki Suri

The nerd- he vomits after having sex, a bit strange although expected from him. The usual stereotype used- he is inadequate and should stick to the books. Just looking busts his load!

‘The good looker’ - he is the one. Jenny falls for men like him. He has everything, nice hair, nice eyes with an enormous talent. Just smiling makes jenny fall over. His presence is truly orgasmic.

The ‘gym guy’- not properly introduced. He is the ‘hottie’ that all the girls fancy.
He also the representative of the ‘Jock’.
Girls, they just can’t get enough of men like him (the masculine piece of meat, who makes all other men look like pheasants).
He is shown to be the type of guy who adores one night stands and truly loves them.
He doesn’t miss his chance- then one day Jenny comes along, and the gym gets a bit steamy.

(Baljot) The mother of Jenny- the stereotypically traditional Indian female. She’s over weight, wears a sari, and even condemns sex before marriage ( a problem for Jenny!)

Jenny- a typical school girl aged 16, in her final year of high school. Make up, drinking, boyfriends, sex you name it she’s got the t-shirt (or side effects) this trailer acts as a flashback, and in three minutes you can see why jenny is in a bit of pickle.

Enigma codes made when viewing the trailer should be:

What’s wrong with Jenny?
Who’s the father, the nerd?
What will the family say?
What will she do next?
Will Joe still love her after she tells him the truth?

Audience & Representations in our film

PARMINDER MATHARU

Our film, SCREW'd is mainly aimed towards a teenage audience, which is aimed towards a 16- 25 age group. In terms of rating, our film would be rated a 15 cetificate, as the film revolves around the theme of pregnancy, therefore, our film would contain sexual references and would have sexual gratifications, includes strong language and would arouse voyeuristic pleasures . It would be pointless to rate the film as being a 12 certificate, as it does not focus on our main target audience of 16 -25 year olds, as our film might be dealing with issues,such as pregnancy more light heartedly but with strong language and explicit scenes, with which parents of younger children might object to.

SCREW'd is mainly aimed towards a teenage audience comprising of mostly females, as they can identify with the main protagonist, Jenny. However,our film will appeal to males, as our film features male characters, which they can identify with, such as Zach.

As well as appealing to this primary, teenage, 16-25 audience, we figured we could also appeal to more than the 16-25 audience, as our film fixates around an ethnic family, including the mother Baljot, therefore, an older audience could identify with her, as she represents a typical Indian mother, in terms of attitude and persona, and is truly signified, as being strict and traditional, as well as being a comical character, which could evoke hysteria from the audience, due to her accent. In addition, our film will aim to captivate older audiences, as it follows a complex narrative, which includes humour, suspense,tensions and seriousness.

SCREW'd would appeal to a D and E socio economic group, as this group includes teenagers and ,semi skilled, skilled workers, therefore the film would appeal to them, as they can identify with the plot, characters and narrative. As our film could be shown in multiplex cinemas, these socio economic group could be our main target audience, as they might understand the plot better, whereas, other A, B, C1 socio economic groups might tend to watch more thought provoking art house films, which sadly, our film is not.

In terms of psychographics, our film would mostly appeal to reformers, strugglers and aspirers, as our film gives a liberal, enlightening look at teenage pregnancy in the Asian community. SCREW'd could challenge the iconic American representations of teenage pregnancy, as depicted in films such as Juno and could give a raw portrayal of how teen pregnancy is dealt with in traditional, cultural ethnic communities.

SCREW'd film synopsis

PARMINDER MATHARU

SCREW'd follows the life of the main protagonist Jenny, a desperate, clumsy school girl from a typical Indian family, who, unlike her family's expectations of her, likes to 'get around' with the boys. SCREW'd subverts from the typical Hollywood genre, which deals with teen pregnancy, as our film gives a fair, light hearted perspective on how teenage pregnancy is dealt with amongst ethnic groups in society .

During the busy half term, after senselessly getting drunk and sleeping around with three guys, Jenny faces a huge bombshell- she's pregnant!! As Jenny is from an Indian family, she intends to keep the pregnancy secret, in order to evade from an uproar and interrogation from her family, as they traditionally disapprove of teen pregnancy. Unknowingly, Jenny holds the family's trust and confides in her friends to find the father of her child, through various means.

In order to improve her situation, Jenny enlists the help of her best friend Zach, in order to find out who the father is. Zach encourages Jenny to salvage DNA evidence, in the form of saliva, hair strands from each of the three guys she slept with. Along the way, Jenny ends up falling in love with (Joe), who is performing alongside her in the school's theatre production. Jenny fears that if she reveals her situation to him, he will end up leaving her, therefore she conceals it from him. Jenny is left feeling guilty, when Zach asks her to tell each of the guys. How will each of the guys react to the news? Who is the father? What will happen to Jenny?

FUAD ASHOR

I changed the 'SCREW'd ' to SCREW'D.
Because looking over it now, I think it looks a bit tacky and not so proffesional.

Music-Soundtracks

FUAD ASHOR

The good thing about our choice in genre is that music accompaniment is fairly feasible to find and use, as generally every comedy trailer consist of contemporary and uplifting popular music used for its recognisability purposes towards the audience.

It is rarely seen that comedy trailers use orginal soundtracks to accompany their trailers, unless it is Juno’s Award-winning soundtracks thats featured im their trailer’.

For our own comedy trailer, we’ll be using contemporary music which will be suitable for our narrative and genre concept. And after we have finalised what our soundtrack choice will be, we'll feedback our choices.

SCREW'd and other Teen Comedy Films

FUAD ASHOR

Our Teen Comedy Film will commit to other very successful teen films combining the cultural diversion in ‘Bend it like Beckham’ and the awkwardly witty humour in ‘Juno’ the pregnant teenager.

‘SCREW’d’ will take teenage pregnancy in a new and light-hearted way, somewhat deceiving it from being a ‘worrying problem in Britain’, condemning any seriousness, to do with teenage pregnancy.

The traditional and cultural influences within the narrative will be from the protagonist’s Asian family which understandably disapproves teenage pregnancy, however the families naivety and dim-witted trust in Jenny, results in them not knowing about the pregnancy until later.

PARMINDER READ THIS!!

Parm's, Fuad and I have decided to change the name of the production to the following: SCREW'd, this has been deicdeed for it's obvious connotations.

Ricki

FUAD ASHOR

In our Group meeting, we looked over all the areas needed such as, cinematography, editing, lighting, music and casting. we wrote down what was needed and how things
can be done.

We basically planned what was going to be needed to make our trailer an actual comedy trailer, making it look realistic and appropiate for its decided genre.

Teen Comedy Film Research

FUAD ASHOR

For our teen comedy film trailer, the codes and coventions of teen films was a crucial area we needed to cover, so the our teen comedy is classified as ''teen comedy'.

We looked at the lighting, sound, mise-en- scene, and the characters within a teen comedy film.
Stereotypes is a given, in many teen films, and our decision to have streotypical characters was purely chosen through the fact that many succesful teen comedies have their own streotypical charatcers and it is a way in which audience can identify them easily and can possibly relate to.

The streotypical characters in many Teen Comedy Films s the:
The Jock
The Princess/ Thee Plastic
The Geek
The Rebel
The Girl next door
The Boy next door
The Misfit/Outcast
and The New Girl

We have tried to put this concept of streotypes in our teen comedy film trailer, as it will be more affective and succesful. With streotypes, there are themes such as 'Prom', 'losing virginity', 'parties' and this is all under an American pop-culture, as many Teen comedies are Hollywood produced.

Furthermore, the plot in many Teen Comedy Films are to do with teennage interests, love, sex, rebellion or conflict with parents and so all these, codes, conventions, and themes have been well regarded when planning and thinking about our own Teen Comedy Trailer.

Comedy Trailer Research

FUAD ASHOR

I looked through many comedy trailers to get an overall idea in how comedy trailers differ from other genres and how it uses its music and and editing to create an affective comical and humourous comedy trailer.

I got from it great ideas in which our group can enhance a comical scene within our tailer and the best way in which the concept of our narrative can be viewed in a 2-3 minute of the trailer. For example I relised that by the first minute of the trailer the basic narrative of the movie plot is percieved, the othher minute is when the 'disequilibrium' of the narrative is apparant and then during the end of the trailer is the funny and amusing parts of the movie.
So with this research and information, it has helped our with the plan of our trailer and and what will therefore go in the trailer.

The music especially was important and a crucial factor in a comedy trailer, and the more contemporary the more affective it usually is. The lighting in many comedy trailer and films is typically high key and therefore we took using artifical ligting in mind.

Synopsis

Jenny doesn’t really know what she got herself into in her hectic half term. Not knowing a missed period inclines that she is pregnant, she forgets candidly what she has done during her half term. But Jenny does find out and then whole heartedly takes up the detective role in gathering all the clues and evidence. Zach’s (Best Friend) advises Jenny to collect the DNA from the three guys she has slept with, from being a strand of hair to the saliva from one the guys spit. In this entire heap of madness Jenny gets herself into another distressful dilemma, she begins to fall in love with Joe- who performs with Jenny at the schools theatre production. Jenny’s friendship with Joe and the other three guys is jeopardised however when Zach threatens Jenny that she will tell the guys, hoping to advise and scare Jenny into doing the right thing. How would the three guys react when they hear the news that one of them is going to be a father, and will Joe still love Jenny after what she had done and hid the truth from him?

RICKI SURI

MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLOT (SO FAR)
Our plot is basically about a school girl who falls pregnant. She is from an indian, traditional family, because of this she is shown no support and therefore must find the father alone in order to inform him of his child. She faces many problems and has not fully braced herself when she relises the harsh reality of life and her situation in life, especially with a child on the way. How will she be treated? Who is the father, will he be informed by Jenny?

RESEARCH
As far as research goes much has been done, we as a group have collectively looked at many films such as Mean girls, Adulthood and Freaky Friday. This has directed us towards the type of music and cast to aim to get, also it has inspired us to target mainly the female audience, so they can relate with the problems of high school life- 'boy trouble'.
Soundtrack used- I got a feeling by The Black Eyed Peas.
Certain scenes used- Boy and girl scenes, for example, High School Musical'