Firstly, Skins relates to our film opening as both are social realisms, Skins focuses on a group of British teens that try to grow up and learn about love and life with little adult supervision (And lots of Partying). This relates to our media product as in the plot the protagonist is a young British teen and one of the main flashbacks is the party. We feel that our film opening really reveals the dangers of what could happen if your not careful with whom you mingle with. Most of skins storylines subtly suggest the dangers of drinking carelessly as someone would end up pregnant after a drunken night etc.
Secondly, Kidulthood and Adulthood are both social realism films as they don’t cover up what the real world is like for most people, with the dangers they may face and the troubles they may encounter. Kidulthood is rated 15 as is our film opening and the plot is basically ‘A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.’ This is similar to our film opening as the 15 year olds in kidulthood have problems just like adults and we watch them deal with and overcome the problems in the movie. In our film opening we show that teenagers do have big problems just like adults as the protagonist in our media product has a problem on her hands – trying to figure out what happened the night before and how she ended up in an empty park bench.
Shameless is the story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. It is also a social realism as it relates to the troubles people may face on a day-to-day basis and how they overcome them. The troubles are always related to real life as the storylines in the TV series could actually happen in the real world. This resembles our film opening as the plot could actually happen in real life and it is based in Manchester as our media product was.
Our media product is different to Shameless and Skins as they have a comedy twist on the social realism theme and they do this by using witty remarks and amusing storylines. Our media product would be more like Kidulthood and Adulthood as they are films and Shameless and Skins are a TV series.
However, Kidulthood and Adulthood are male centred films as the male is the protagonist and main character throughout yet in our film opening the female is the protagonist and the movie is female based as it is based on her reaction to that night and emotions, hopefully this will shift our audience from just male dominated to a more diverse and broader audience as it may interest females as the lead role is taken up by a woman. Our film opening fits in well with the thriller genre in which we were trying to represent as we used pans and POV shots to emphasis the suspense and panic in which the protagonist would feel in that situation. We also filmed in an empty park and we never revealed the identity of the antagonist to reinforce the mysterious atmosphere we wanted to create. Also, what is out of the ordinary with our film opening is that we tell the story via the use of flashbacks at the start this will launch the audience into the protagonists shoes at the beginning. Our media product is more original as it displays a different perspective of teenage life and the problems we may face as it is a social realism and although awful rape does occur in the real world.
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