Group scenario

We incorporated Levi-Strauss' concept of binary opposition into our film opening with the character of Shannon (played by Jen Roberts) being a binary opposition of Linda (played by Sarah), as Linda who's a more outgoing sexually active, nonacademic character is the binary opposite of her best friend Shannon who's a quieter more well behaved character, this is established in the beginning of our film opening but later contradicted as its revealed Shannon is a teenage mum so effectively a binary opposition of her past self.



We also can loosely apply the narrative theory of Propp to our media film; in terms of the characters section, this is ideal for our target audience as we're all mainly indoctrinated from a young age to naturally follow props theory of 'fairytale'.

Social realism is our chosen genre and effectively a modern/21st century fairytale, also including small sections of post-modernism through using a montage of quick action cuts, as oppose to long continuous shots used in 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Halloween'.

1 The villain-Tom

2 The donor-mum

3 The hero- Mitch-nerd

4 The helper- Dave(Mitch's best friend)

5 The princess- Shannon

6 The dispatcher -Linda

7 The anti- Shannon dad

The idea that we have chosen to develop on is a social realism film following how a teenage girl and her friend cope with the first being a young mum. These girls both come from a working class background in the north of England. The opening of this film focuses on revealing to the audience that Shannon is a mum and is not just a normal teenager. The continuation of the film would follow Todorov's narrative structure. Above are the characters from the film set into Propp's character roles. This film mainly follows Shannon and Linda as the central protagonists. It follows how the two cope with Shannon being a teen mum and how they cope with it, it also looks at how the two try to regenerate her social life. With the introduction of Tom to Shannon's love life, he gives her the choice between him and her baby. This situation is resolved with the emergence of Mitch and his friend Dave. Shannon and Mitch fall for each other creating a new stable equilibrium.

The primary target audience for this film is females teenagers. However it may broaden beyond this.