MEST 2 mise en scene

Casting details:

Young boy called Ayden who is 14 years old. His mother has been diagnosed with cancer. They are too poor to afford it and so Ayden joins a group of gangsters who sell drugs. He becomes close with them over a year, the head of the gang called Elijah, takes Ayden on an important job. While in the car Ayden touches Elijah's leg which causes conflict. Elijah informs the gang about Ayden's inappropriate behaviour and beat up Ayden.

Ayden: Protagonist, whose mother has been diagnosed with cancer. He cannot afford it and so he joins a gang where they sell drugs and earn good money. However, there is a misunderstanding which causes conflict between Ayden and the gangsters.

Elijah: The head of the group of gangsters,  who accepts Ayden into his group. However, as Ayden touches his leg, Elijah's informs his gang to beat him up

Mother: Mother of Ayden, who has been diagnosed with cancer

Gangsters: Group of gangsters who obey Elijah and follow orders from him.

Aydens friend: He is seen at the beginning of the clip, going into a local corner shop to buy food.

Local drug dealer: He is seen giving a blue bag to Ayden containing drugs.

Propps:

• A phone will be used to make an important phone call between Ayden and Elijah
• A blue bag will be used which contains fake drugs given by a local drug dealer to Ayden
• A £10 note will be used by Ayden to pay for the food he buys in a local shop
• Ayden will be wearing his school uniform to show the audeice he has come back from school.
• A car will be used for Elijah which is where Ayden and him go on the important job, but then Ayden decides to touch Elijahs leg which causes conflict.

Locations:

1. Estate/Park
2. Bedroom
3. Car

Costume and make-up:

Ayden: he is mostly seen wearing school uniform throughout the production with a bag on his back

Elijah: He is seen wearing a baggy hoodie with chains around his neck as well a hat on his head.

Gangsters: they are also seen in baggy clothing with trainers to signify they are from a poor area.

Mother: the mothers hand is seen with a ring and nail polish on it

Local drug dealer: He is seen wearing a hoodie on his head to hide his identity as well as baggy jeans.

Aydens friend: He is seen wearing a back pack, trainers, polo shirt and a coat.

Lighting: 

The estate: High-key lighting is used to show everything within the scene.

The car: High-key lighting is used to show the facial expression on the characters faces

Bedroom: High-key lighting is used to show the audience everything within it, as well as the facial expressions presented on Ayden's face. 

project schedule

• All documents are finished: story board,  shot list and script
• Actors have been chosen and the roles have been given to them
• We have already started filming
• Next scene will be shot this Saturday; giving them the script too
• Editing will occur and will be finished and put together ready for marking 
• The entire project should take between 4-6 weeks

Audience focus group

1) The focus group involved a handful of students from my media class. Each group had to present their ideas in detail to the rest of us which we had to evaluate and see whether us teens would be interested in watching their production., they also had to tell us if our production was good and if it met the needs of what the channel E4 are looking for. We also had to record the feedback of what the teacher and class pupils were given us so we can reflect back on it and improve our production. Our production is about a 14 year old boy whose mothers has fallen and is diagnosed with cancer. They come from a poor background and are in need of money to treat the cancer. The main protagonist gets involved with a group of gangsters who sell drugs for money. The gangsters begin to fully trust Ayden. The head of them (Elijah) takes Ayden on a job with him in his car. During the process Ayden starts to touch Elijahs leg which causes conflict between them and in the end the gangsters beat him up.

2) "You should not film it at night as it is too dangerous"
"The should be enough lighting for us to see the characters face"
"How will you portray it in two minutes?"
"What if the characters you have do not want to be gay?"
"You need to include the mother in your video, because it looks like you have forgotten about her"
"May be hard to execute"
"You can ask the drama department for characters"
"Overall it has a good concept"

3) We learnt that the mother character needs to be in the video a lot more as it looks as if we've forgotten about her, if we only use her in the beginning of our production. Also, the concept is a good idea but it can either turn out really good or really bad and so we need to consider making the video a good production. From this i can suggest that our production will turn out to look more realistic, which will keep the audience intrigued. Moreover, the group said we cannot fit it all in the two minutes and so we will cut the bits out that aren't necessary. In addition, we have found a person that will be the protagonist (gay) and so that's a problem that is solved. We decided not to do it in the dark as it is too dangerous and so we have enough light during the day to see the characters clearly. 

4) The target audience for our media production is aimed at mostly teenage  males in the psycho-graphic group of struggler's. This is due to the fact that the whole production is based around people with poor backgrounds. Also, it can be aimed at females as we have used a couple of female gangsters in our production so its not fully male based. In addition, in the demographic social class classification, we have aimed it at individuals in group D as they are semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers which fits the characters in our production. Its not aimed at people in group E as they have no job whatsoever and have no skill. The characters in our production do have a  couple of skills

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September 2014 > Institutions > Institutions
September 2014 > Media Language >  Movie shot analysis
September 2014 > Media language > Mise en scene comparison
September 2014 > Media Language > Lighting

October 2014 > Media Language > Film noir
October 2014 > Audience > Brand values
October 2014 > Media Language > Film still analysis (7)
October 2014 > Audience > Cool brands research
October 2014 > Narrative > Narrative

November 2014 > Audience > Two-step flow model
November 2014 > Audience > Dependency theory

December 2014 > Coursework > Preliminary exercise
December 2014 > Media Language > Research and planning
December 2014 > Representation > Representation
December 2014 > Ideology > Binary opposition
December 2014 > Representation > Representation theories
December 2014 > Representation > Female gaze
December 2014 > Audience > Focus group
December 2014 > Institutions > Institutional research
December 2014 > Institution > MEST2 status update

Institutionsal research

Task: Research E4 and BBC 3 - two channels that boast similar target audience to your brief. For EACH channel research the following:


Channel history
When did it start broadcasting? What was the critical reception? Any controversial moments? What genre of programmes is the channel best known for?

Notable successes
What TV programmes have been most successful for the channel? Why do you think they were so successful? Are any of these programmes similar to your idea for a new TV programme?

Target audience
Look carefully online and you'll find a detailed breakdown of the target audience. For example, E4 has an excellent sales webpage that contains links to incredibly informative Powerpoint documents that outline E4's target audience and key statistics in great detail.

Write up the demographic breakdown of the channel's target audience. Once you have done that, write an analysis of the target audience stating what psychographic groups might watch the channel and also what brands or lifestyle choices viewers would be interested in.

E4:
Start of broadcast:
E4 began transmission on 18 January 2001 at 8.30pm with a night hosted by Ali G.

Critical reception:
New Girl - critical reception 5.3
 
2007: Big Brother Row
The allegedly racist bullying of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty by her fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemates provoked an international incident. Channel 4 bosses defended the programme, saying it was "a good thing" it had provoked a debate. Questions were raised in Parliament, effigies were burned in India and crowds were banned from attending Jade Goody's eviction. But Ofcom ruled the station had breached its code of conduct and ordered it to make a number of on-air apologies.
Historical and drama programmes.

One of the most successful TV programmes that E4 have launched currently, is Hollyoaks(one of my favourites)
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a teen drama set within the village of Hollyoaks following the lives of each character within it, making it a multi-strand narrative soap.
In particular being a holly oaks fan myself, I've noticed that they usually have major epic episodes that cause the most unexpected chaos within the show. The effect of the one episode carries on throughout a number of episodes. The mayhem highlighted in the episode really grasps the audience and continues on word of mouth through social sites etc. as it usually ends on a cliffhanger. The show has been around since 1995- so over the year they have got a growing family of a wide based loyal audience, that continues to grow.
Each relate-able episode lures in even new-comers to their audience base, so you can jump into any episode and be lured in through the usually twisted yet interesting narratives.
For my idea I initially wanted to go with the whole teen drama theme but then again, I was consdiering doing a documentary styled programme. It is a different approach and definitely a diffuclt one because this can either go horribly wrong or brilliantly. 
Notable success:
-The Inbetweeners
-The Big Bang Theory
-Friends
-Big Brother 

Age:
-Under 18s (63%)
-18-24 (29%)
-25-34 (5%)
-35-44 (2%)
-45-54 (1%)
-55+ (0%) 

Gender:
-Female (59%)  
-Male (41%) 

BBC3:

Start of broadcast
Their plan was for BBC Knowledge to be renamed BBC Four, and indeed this took place in 2002, and for BBC Choice to be renamed BBC Three.

Critical reception
4.2/4.1

Drama, documentaries and comedy

Notable success:
- Doctor who
- Eastenders
- Spendaholics

Age:
16 to 34-year olds
But In 2008 it reached 26.3% of 16–34-year-olds in digital home.

Audience focus group

Me, Izzah and Tina

Full narrative:
A 14 year old single child lives with his mother only in a council estate in West London. He is brought up around gangs and has slightly been influenced to steal when in need. From the age of 14 till 15 he was being observed by those in a gang and they came to realise that he is a brave boy who doesn't seem to care about the world. He declined an offer to help serve drugs to the community by these gangsters due to the fact he is the only son and doesn't want to let his mother down. A few months before his 16th birthday, his mother had been diagnosed with cancer and the treatment to cure her was quite pricey. The protagonist saw this as an opportunity to step up and be the man of the house and by this he needs some sort of income. So he approaches these gangsters and leaves with a job to sell drugs. The mother is living at home and not the hospital but has carers coming in and out throughout the day however she is unaware that the treatment is expensive and thinks that it is covered by the government. Unfortunately, it isn't and so her son needs to be careful in order not to get caught. 
A few months go by and the protagonist is working extremely hard to make sure he's earning good money. Due to the motivation, the leader of the gang decides to take him for a drive to go pick up the re-load. This is seen as a privilege as not everybody gets to see the leader neither get to pick up a re-load so the protagonist is excited.
The destination is quite far and so a discussion is held between the 2. This is how the problem occurs, the leader says he has never had a girl meaning he did not date a girl but he uses them for sexual purposes and then leaves them. The protagonist misunderstands this and thinks he means he isn't interested in females but me. Ironically, the protagonist isn't interested in females and so he didn't see anything about the fact that the leader has never dated a female. During the discussion, they pass by a McDonalds and pick up a little meal. Strangely, as they leave the car park of the restaurant, the protagonist finds it hard to control his desires and so rubs the inner thigh of the driver. This is a shock as the gangster is not use to such events taking place and so thinks the protagonist is messing about and taking him for a joke. 
This leads to the disequilibrium which is the gangster getting angry as he isn't being taken seriously and so starts threatening the boy and shouting whilst driving back to the estate. Where the whole gang is, he parks the car and gets out and drags the boy out too and tells the whole gang how he wasn't being taken seriously. As the gang don't want to stop earning money, they agree to abuse the protagonist. In order to create suspense, there will be no shot of the protagonist getting abused, the couple of last shots will consist of him getting threatened by a group of boys, a black out and then a shot of flashing lights of an ambulance to end it. 

Broadcast-
On channel 4 at around 8:00pm/8:30pm.On channel 4 at around 8:00pm/8:30pm. this is because school children will be home by then in order to view the the programme, furthermore the audiences will have finished work or school homework etc by 8pm. Also younger audiences will be asleep or not watching Tv at that time. 

MEST2 Status update

1) Your finalised group
Izzah, Tina and Me

2) Your initial plans for your new TV programme that meets the MEST2 brief
Homosexual drug dealers. A young teenage boy becomes a drug dealer within a group of notorious boys. He forms a close attachment bond with them however, these boys do not know he is a homosexual. During a car journey the young teenager male touches one of the boys legs in a sexual way which causes the group to beat him up.

3) A link to your research blogpost - the five TV/film opening scenes you have analysed that will help you inform your own ideas and production work
http://sophiasmediablog2014.blogspot.co.uk/