Main idea

The storyline in this video will be about a group of teens who meet up before getting the bus to college. The main character, Seb, is having problems with his parents at home and he is woken by his parents arguing. He gets up and gets ready for college, he leaves and meets his friends at the bus stop. Sebs friends will be sitting on the bench at the bus stop waiting for him. Sebs friend, Luke, tells Seb he has some weed and he pulls it out offering to smoke some with Seb and Beth (Lukes girlfriend). The bus then comes. Beth gets on the bus and Luke and Seb decide to smoke lukes weed and not go to college. The boys then get hungry and go to the shop where seb says he has no money as his parents wont give him any so they seb has to decide whether he is going to steal it. The boys get caught stealing and get chased out of the shop. I want the characters to act unknowing of the camera at until the end where I want one of the main characters to voice over the party montage talking about life as a teen and to talk about the issues touched in the video. The issues I am going to be touching will include drugs, sex and how easily tempting these things can be to a teen of my age. I want the piece to include a few decisions that have to be made by the character that will effect the way that the story plans out. I want to touch on the idea that a lot of teens have nothing to do outside of college and how easy it is/ can be to go and get some drugs to pass the time. I want to follow 2 maybe 3 of the characters so I can show how each teen experiences something different even though they may live fairly similar lives.

Magazine

My video will be taking a lot of inspiration from the film "kids" by Larry Clark. I have decided that I will take some inspiration from the film cover and other forms of advertisement for the film. I have decided to do this because our films have a lot in common style wise and this has been specifically made for a documentary type drama. I like the idea of having the characters faces in the title this is something that I would add to my magazine spread as it is a good way of determining the main characters. The cover also has a large variety of colours which adds energy to the poster and emphasises the "kids" idea as the colours are very generic. The photo on the cover is interesting as it has a vignette round the image which is a photography technique where the image slowly blurs out. This is not a very modern technique so I will not be using this. I will be trying to make my poster look modern (to emphasise that the film is about modern youth) but will include elements of this poster. I want my magazine spread to emphasise the idea that my film is a social documentary/ drama so the audience is taken in by the idea that the characters are real people. The quotes at the top may be the way that I decide to portray my ideas as this is a good way to show off any USP without it looking too over the top trying to show off loads of ideas.

I have decided that for my double page spread I will be interviewing the actors that take part in the filming. I will be talking about what it was like to be part of the filming of the video and the actors views on the ideas in the video as the "actors" are teenagers that are experiencing the topics in the  video first hand. I will be asking them if there is anything in the film that was left out or that should have been put in. I will also ask them about any personal experiences that relate to the film/ video to give a first hand account of a teenagers life.

I plan to lay m double page out something like this. I will do a photo shoot with the characters in the locations that I use. The text in the bottom right will be the interview and the text over the page will be showcasing the video and all of the unique ideas surrounding it.

Looking at this advert for I am legend shows a photo of the film being shot which I think is interesting as it is not something you see everyday you only see the final outcome. This is something that I am looking to incorporate into my magazine spread as it will draw peoples attention and give them an insight into how it was made.