Creating Media: Research and Planning

Creating Media: Research and Planning

Waterloo road

Waterloo Road relates to our intro as it has a similar style of genre. It also relates to our intro as the characters in Waterloo Road are similar to ours. The start of the program starts with a student selling drugs in the school play ground. It also looked like he was the dominant character as everyone looked scared of him. This relates to our film as our main character is a drug dealer. This also relates to our idea as throughout the opening 2 minutes there was non diegetic sound playing. This relates to our intro as we plan to have non diegetic sound during our opening sequence. Also at the end of the opening scene the title Waterloo round appears in bold. This also relates to our intro as we plan to put our name The Bench at the end of our opening scene. We also plan to have it in bold. Also the opening scene uses established shots to show the viewers where it will be set which is a school. However in our intro we decide to show where our opening scene will be set at the end of our intro. The difference is in our intro we plan not to have any sound of characters talking during the intro. Also we do not give away much in our opening sequence about our storyline. Another difference is that we introduce and provide our characters name during the intro.

Misfits

Misfits relates to our opening sequence as it also has a similar genre to our intro. It’s similar to our opening sequence as we attend to introduce our characters in the opening scene and also provide their names. Also there is sound playing in the background which we also plan to do, in order to relate it to the mood of the intro. Another similarity our intro has with misfits is they provide their name at the end of the opening sequence which we also plan to do. Also a difference is between our intro and misfits is that they used the opening sequence to introduce all their characters, however with our opening sequence we show characters in action, whereas misfits just show their characters face with their names. Also the difference between the two intros is that we have sound from our characters speaking, whereas in misfits the characters do not talk. Also another difference between our intro and misfit’s intro is that, misfits do not provide any shots of the setting for their TV series. Also misfits also do not give any idea away off what their storyline would be, whereas our intro will provide some idea of what our storyline will be, but not giving too much away.

Kidulthood

Kidulthood is a film whereas our opening sequence is part of TV show. The similarities between the two are that the genre is very similar and we are going for this type of genre. We are planning to do a opening sequence which would relate to Kidulthood, however Kidulthood contains a lot of swearing which some could say will appeal to the target audience more. A difference between kidulthoods opening sequence and ours is that Kidulthood do not give away their setting, they just show that the main characters are school kids which would attract the younger viewers as it could relate to most of them. Another difference is that the name of the film is not provided after the intro, whereas we will provide that. Kidulthood provides non diegetic sound in their opening sequence to set suspicion and tension. It mostly creates tension when the character is drilling into something which the audience want to know what it is which we later realise is a gun, which would interest viewers to carry on watching. This is one reason why we have gone for a Kidulthood genre it attracts viewers of the younger audience as it was a highly rated movie. Also the movie hooks the viewers with its tension throughout the whole film leaving the viewers wanted to know what is going to happen next. However during the opening sequence of Kidulthood they do not provide the characters names or their original names. Whereas we plan to do that in order to introduce our characters efficiently.

Ill Manors

Ill manors relates to our opening sequence as the storyline is what we are looking to go for, also the characters is what we would like to have in our intro. However the Ill Manors characters swear a lot during the film. The opening to Ill Manors sets shows the viewers part of the setting of the scenes in the film, by using establishing shots. They also show shots of the main characters, however they do not give anything away to the viewers on which characters is the most dominant during the film. This then attracts the attention of viewers as they want to know what will be happen and keep them interested.  A difference between our open sequence and Ill Manors is that Ill Manors did not personally introduce all their main characters, however this was because they had too many to introduce. Whereas our intro we will be personally introducing every character. Ill Manors also did not provide their title after the opening sequence this could be because most films do not do that, however in our intro we plan to have our title The Bench in big bold writing. This is because it will enable us to provide mystery to the audience. Also the clothing that the characters use during the entire film is the clothing we will be looking to have our characters wearing. The clothes would be dark clothing, also stereotype clothing of what a teenager would wear if he’s hanging out on the street. This is because it will set the tone and mood for the rest of our TV show.