AUDIENCE: Target audience update

Our audience - updated

Primary Audience
15-21: I think our primary audience would be 15-21 because our characters

 reflect this age range. We are also composing a soundtrack to reflect this 

target audience. As outlined below our BBFC rating will reflect this.

Male and Female: We have taken a hybrid approach by having Social Realist and a Rom-Com genre. The social realist and comedy will help with the male audience and the romance, stereotypically will help with the female audience. 

Heterosexual and Homosexual: At the start of the film we have a heterosexual and homosexual love triangle, our film is not simply hetero-normative.   

UK-wide: Although our film is set in Yorkshire we intend to promote it to a UK 

audience. This may be difficult for example Mickybo and Me, set in Northern

 Ireland, was only screened for 1 weekend in Northern Ireland compared to 

Son Of Rambow, that got screened in the UK and USA in over 300 screens.

Secondary Audience
12-14: Younger viewers who aspire to be seen as older - digitisation means that it 

has become easy to get round the BBFC ratings as they can stream download or 

copy DVD's of files from online and watch them at home. I know this for example

 I watched Wolf on Wall Street from my PC at home when aged 15!

25-34+: There is an established older audience for social realist film. Plus as

 highlighted in the section below, we have incorporated multiple intertextualities,

 not least from older films. There will also be older characters such as the parents 

later in the film which older people can relate to. 

Intertextuality
Pretty in Pink: We may do a take on a scene from Pretty in Pink where the 'Ducky' 

character dances around a record shop, but in our case he will be dancing around 

a shop to the same music 'Try a little Tenderness' but it would be an acoustic version. 

This would appeal to the younger audiences as he is being very childish and funny 

but would also appeal to the older audience as the song is more relatable to them 

as it was originally produced 1933.This film had a BBFC rating of 15.

Submarine: Our idea at the start will involve a lot of long shots of scenery just like 

at the start of Submarine. We liked this idea as we thought it would cleary establish 

to the audience the, time, date and location. We also took the idea of having a young

 teen as the main protagonist. This will encourage a younger audience as they have 

a character to relate with but as this character is very mature signified by the

 mise-en-scene of the room it will also encourage a older aged audience. This 

is a mix of our primary and secondary audience as we aim to be a 

BBFC Rating
12: Having the BBFC rating as a 12 would narrow the audience and also due to 

bad language it wouldn't be appropriate.
15: This is our primary audience but we would want this as our BBFC rating at it 

would attract a larger audience.
18: Having it as an 18 would not be appropriate as there is no server bloody 

violence or sex involved.
Summary
Overall I think the best BBFC rating to have for our film would be 15 as we would

 get our Primary audience but also a younger and older audience as young people

 (because of digitation) would watch the film to make themselves seen older. This 

would be hard to get though as Indie companies have a less chance of getting a 

15 than one of the Big 6 as they are smaller and don't have as much money.

MISE-EN-SCENE: Costume ideas + influences

Costume ideas

Girl

Clueless costume

Breakfast Club costume

For the girl we want her to have a very specific style, quite retro, vintage and quirky to connote that she's an outsider and not the stereotypical "normal girl". Films we are thinking about looking at to get inspiration are films like Pretty in Pink, Clueless and Breakfast Club. 

Pretty in Pink costume

Boy

 For our quirky male character, we want to base him on the character of Duckie from Pretty in Pink.

We decided we liked his overall dress sense because he stood out and his dress sense reflected his crazy and humorous personality. This style would fit perfectly with the male character we had in mind who is also funny and eccentric. He wears glasses and a bright and heavily patterned waist coat which we are most likely to incorporate into our male protagonist. 

Judd Nelson

For the second male and the binary opposite to our quirky male we looked at the badboy character from The Breakfast Club, Judd Nelson, and Charlie Sheens character in Ferris Buellers day off. After looking at all of the badboy inspirations we picked out the recurring theme of oversized jackets and mainly leather and denim jackets with rolled up sleeves and a white teeshirt. The hair is also messy, unkempt and long. They also usually wear torn jeans.

Charlie Sheen

How this fits in with the target audience
Our film is focused towards a young target audience. Right now the vintage style is very in fashion, therefore putting the male and female central protagonists in vintage clothing helps appeal to the youthful audience. But to help appeal to the wider youth audience we will put the bad boy character in a leather jacket and jeans as this is also a style that many people know and which helps denote his rebel status.