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Research and Planning Audience Research. Age Range: 14-25. From our original ideas, we gathered information that in teen drama they're usually based in/on school grounds. Therefore gathering the information that the targeted audience would be children more specifically teenagers around the ages of people participating at school as-well as younger adults, from this I would suggest the target audience range would be from 13 years to 25. These age ranges are likely to view the drama as the scenes are relatable to there day to day life. Social Groups: Most if not all social groups: After researching the forms and conventions of typical Teen Dramas, we found that the majority of social groups often view teen dramas however the most popular would be the working class as the majority of characters in teen dramas are from 'state schools' showing the working class category. However there is still intensive for people of all social classes to view teen dramas as it often coul...

SCRIPT SCENE 1: (Boy from state school walks down the road. Rap music playing. Long take. A cat gets in the way of his route) Tez: Move outta my way, pussy. (Cat meows and runs off. Tez carries on walking and notices a boy wearing a shirt of the rival, private school) Tez: (Under his breath) Your shirt is bare dirty fam Theodore: Look who is speaking, at least I have a mother to wash my clothes. (Tez goes for Theodore) SCENE 2: (In rough school, Tez discussing what happened to mates. Constant cuts to the other, rival school) Tez: This posh nerd starting chatting breeze about man’s mum the other day. (Through gritted teeth) He was from Ryde Private (Group looks bewildered at him) Chaz: What are you gonna do about it then bruv? Theodore: I don’t know Thomas, but I think we should try and have a reasonable conversation with him. Thomas: But they have knives and guns and drugs and stuff like that. Tez: Only problem is, where are we gonna get a shank? Buster: Isn’t...

Example of new Teen Drama. Ackley Bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGwcgyO5w8 Research: Waterloo Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJTon48wu50 My group researched multiple different TV teen dramas, however the key drama being: Waterloo road, of which we studied and began to break down the story line, A common theme that I found was that bullying or 'interrogating' of students, to build a popular group of people, that people try to be apart of creating friendship, Throughout the majority of the seasons there is usually one or two protagonists which are the people who are at the top of popularity of the group. Teen Dramas use a very diverse vareiaty of characters whether the characters are of different ethnicity have different beliefs or are from different places in the country (accent changes etc).