Audience

Our audience is aimed at teenagers both male and female but also adults as it does have an interesting content and isn't a teenager based film as it involves family and emotion. This could also link with other families who are sufferening or going through the same as what our film is about.

Locations

When looking at locations me and Ellen had quite similiar ideas. For our first scene between Lucy and her friend I decided to use the local school library at Marlwood school as that showed sixth form, realistic life. I think it worked well as it was quite big so we could use different places or angles to film the best shot. We also had reality in the background of normal people doing their day to day projects and because it was a library it was quiet enough to hear our actors but loud enough to hear people in the background.

Second location was at my house between Lucy and her mother in my kitchen. Ellen chose the kitchen as it seemed more homey as the mum could be cleaning/washing up and we could get a good shot of Lucy walking down the stairs into the kitchen. I also then came up with the idea that we could film Lucy and her mum frontwards whilst still doing their jobs and seeing the background as the kitchen has a big window looking out to the garden so I could stand out at the garden, open the window and film in which I really liked as it was quite a different shot.

Third location was in Alveston bridle path, we used it about half 10am on a Friday morning so we had the sun at a nice point coming through the trees/bushes. There are lots of places such as walkways/fields you can film in around the main wood part to get different shots. The problem we had that day was it was a bit muddy so doing running scenes were difficult but found a way by doing different angles to cover up that up.

Dear John

Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film which comes under the genre of mine and Ellens film. This is one of  my favourite films and it links as inspiration as he is off to Afghan something he has always wanted to be a soldier but he has a partner/family to think about as he will have to leave her. This has a link with our film as Lucy wants to go off to the army but her family aren't happy with it and has to think whats the best idea...

The Guardian

We listened to a podcast about women in the media in one of our lessons recently and the representation of them. I found out 78% of articles are mostly written by men and on Radio 1 in the morning 84% talk about men and what's happening at the moment with them. Women are still represented like they were back in the 1920's and onwards being a 'house wife' or being in childcare. But you could see this being that men are so dominant and the main figure out of the two that this is why women don't push themselves to do as much as men do. As they're aren't many women main figures in the public eye so nobody has anybody to inspire to be like. 5000 women dropped out of work in the past two years. More work experience needs to be done for women such as sport journalists as it's less than 10% and 5% coverage of recording it.

When looking at the representation of men with mine and Ellens film our main character is was a man but has now changed to a woman. When going to the army you see more men but women have recently became more involved. It's more a stereotype to have a man start the army especially when looking at inspirations such as films as it's always men.
Also the military wives produced a song at christmas time 2011 for their men which I think works really well with feminsim and linking in to our film as we seen this genre of film being mainly male based but women are creeping in and even though men are still seen as the dominant character/most important, women are becoming more confident and important as men are as the years go by.