Final proposal

I have decided that I am going to make a short film for my production and as my partner for this production is American it will be based on the cultural differences that are faced when moving to a new country. Due to this the working title for my production will be Culture Clash.


As the production will be a short film it should be shown at a film festival such as the UK film festival as it can then compete in categories for best British short film as well as the category for best student film. However if it were to be aired afterwards on television then it would suit a niche channel such as E4 as it is targeting a teenage and adolescent audience.


This brings me onto my next point of the target audience, because through my target audience research on yougov.co.uk I compared audience profiling's from existing television series that are similar to our short film idea. I used 'modern family', 'the office' and 'the office' US version. I used these three television series because they are comedies with an element of interview as the characters talk directly to the camera so it fits with the idea of what our film will be. When I looked at the age of viewers of the series it was mostly watched by teenagers, in secondary school, sixth form and university as well as adolescents (age 20 to 30). They also live in the south, north west and midlands in England as well as London. My target audience would fit with the idea of being explorers as they tend to live in large cities and would be drawn to a television series based on new experiences and therefore that is why I have targeted this young, liberal age group as my main target audience.


The genre for my short film will be comedy but with elements of a documentary, it may be classified as a mockumentary because there are times when the character will directly speak to the camera as if it were an interview despite it representing their subconscious mind.


The narrative for the film will be linear as it will follow a day in the life of the main character step by step as they change due to the experiences they have of their culture. However the narrative does skip to the dream sequences where the characters mind takes control but the ideas of their mind are fitting with the narrative so overall the narrative will be linear.