Reclassifying genre

We have decided to reclassify the genre of our film as "Romantic Comedy". This is because the romance elements have come through when we were developing the plot, especially as we found ourselves influenced by Todorov’s theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium. However, we still want to appeal to the lucrative teen market and our survey results showed that comedies would be popular.

Initial filming locations

Scene	Filming Location
Posh school establishing shot	Croxteth Country Hall
Posh school corridor	Manchester Town Hall
Principal’s office	Manchester Town Hall
New school establishing shot	The Byrchall High School
New school corridor	Winstanley College corridor
School public place	Winstanley College corridor

Initial scene list

This is our initial scene list. We created it using http://www.bubbl.us/ because this allowed us to use a piece of modern multimedia technology to create an easily readable list. We are going to expand on this by adding 'sibling bubbles' to annotate the technical elements of our trailer.

Film title

We have decided to call our film 'Popular'. This is because the concept of popularity is something that has widespread understanding. Additionally, popularity is important amongst our target audience of younger teenage girls and so we think the themes of the film will appeal to them, hopefully incdreasing the success of the film.

Film title mind map

To help us with the decision making process we decided to create a mind map. We explored a variety of different themes related to the movie.

Todorov’s theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium

Character list

Character	Character Name	Actor/Actress
Female Protagonist	Nikki Peach	Charlotte Bassnett
Male Protagonist	Ethan	Gareth Davies
Posh school friends	Isabella	Laura Highton
	Sophia	Becky Conboy
New school pupils	Lauren	Orianna Knowland
Teacher/principal	Mrs Devernport