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CONVENTIONS USED

From our previous research of the genre coming of age films we can see that there are all very similar in the story lines, they're all quite peaceful and no real major plot twists. We decided that we wanted to create an opening sequence the genre was coming of age but with a twist. We did this by incorporating the sub-genre sci-fi into our opening sequence, we felt that this way we made it more interesting to our target audience and not as clique as the typical coming of age films.  Our opening sequence was inspired by the film " I am Legend" as it includes a similar story line of an apocalyptic setting. However, this was challenged as we were trying to incorporate both a coming of age genre and a sci-fi genre without making it more sci-fi than coming of age.

Plot

Characters

For our opening sequence we decided to use actors that were around the adult age, and that was slightly older that out target audience. We felt that this would show how a person can develop and the skills you gain as you go from a teenager into a young adult and show our target audience how people change as they get older and wiser. Also, we took into consideration mise en scene, and how a person would look and dress if they were living in a post apocalyptic wipe out, we thought that they would look rugged and dirty so we incorporated this into how our character looked, also we had consider that our character is a young adult and that the clothes he was wearing had to practical for what was happening but also clothes that a typical young adult would wear now. In addition, we made sure that our character fitted this description wearing rugged clothing that consisted of jeans a clothes that were muddy and torn.

Setting 

Normally, a stereotypical setting for a coming of age film is based around school or home. However, we defiantly challenged this idea in our opening sequence as our main setting for our opening sequence is based on train track in rural Gloucester. This doesn't fit they typical setting for  coming of age film how ever it does fit very well with our sub-genre of sic-fi/ post apocalyptic. We decided to go with the sub-gene setting as we felt it bring diversity to our opening sequence, it shows the loneliness of our character as he believes the everyone is dead an the seclusion that being on you're own not knowing where to go brings to our main character.  

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