pitch: Title/ synopsis of our teen movie

Film titles usually give the audience a taste of what the content of the film is to be about. This is done either simply through the title of the film or other elements such as the background picture of cast featured in the movie.

It is important that we capture some of the conventions real teen films include in their titles. This because the title is all the audience has to go from before trailer and such are released. From the title of our teen film the audience get a sense of what it is going to be about.

‘Freaky Friday’ is an example of a teen film that gives the audience a sense of what they can expect from the film. Although there is use of one type of font the two different colours used create a contrast in the characters the audience can expect to find in the film. The word ‘freaky’ has red in it while the word ‘Friday’ has a light purple. This shows the two different personalities the protagonists have as red is seen as a “too hot to handle” colour and the light purple a “plain Jane” colour- which is a spot on description about the mother and daughter.

Furthermore in the film ‘Spring Breakers’ the writing of the title is not precise as it looks as though it has been written itself several times. Students tend to do this when bored in lesson which gives an impression that the film is going to revolve itself around a group of students. The harshness of the letters being written over several times shows a sign of chaos. However the bright colours used in the title show an element of fun in the film.   

The pink cursive writing in the title of our teen film represent the feminine characters in our teen film as pink is a colour usually associated with Barbie’s whereas the red block capital letters contrast the pretty pink as the red gives a sense of danger and also the capital letters symbolise dominance- reflecting other members of the teen film.

Brief outline of our teen film:

Four girls of different backgrounds find they share a past together when a sudden lockdown in school results in them spending the night in college.

Brief outline of the opening;

The opening of our teen film typically follows teen films as we have the girls arriving at school (in their different forms of transport etc.) and several shots of them on their journey to college. We then have them settling in a class that they share but do not associate with one another. Suddenly an alarm goes off indicating the ‘meltdown’ in which students and teachers need to leave the building immediately as there is only a minute until the system locks down. In this moment of frenzy everyone leaves however complications occur (bag stuck to seat etc.) to the four girls which leaves them trapped in the classroom that automatically locks.