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Duration: ~5 Minutes
Audience: Mainly teenagers as they will find the aspects of the film much more funny as it will be more personal and funny and allow for relation to the film. Could also be aimed at parents, as they will have experienced bringing up a teenager, and at 20-30 year olds as some aspects of current teenage life will be the same as theirs, although some of the humour may be lost.
Synopsis/Summary: The film is centered around a day in the life of a student, but done as a nature documentary. There will be a narrator who is on screen at the beginning and at occasions during the film, but will mostly be done via voice-over. There will be 1 subject who is followed, starting from breakfast time - narrated as 'feeding habits', then followed around college and meeting up with a group of friends for 'social' or 'pack' activities, with commentary on the teenager being a pack animal. The subject will then be humiliated by the group for not having seen the latest tv show/having the latest phone etc, at which point they will leave depressed with a narrator commentary on the 'fast paced life of a teen' and the 'survival of the fittest'. They will then go home where they will prepare to meet their girlfriend (ideally the girlfriend will be identified as a 'mate' during the social scene) where they will change clothes and do their hair called 'plumage' and put on aftershave which is referred to as 'pheromones'. They then leave and arrive at their girlfriends and walk in, with the narrator describing the need for a suitable, older, wiser mate, at which point the teen will walk in to the bedroom and the narrator will be in bed with his girlfriend, and the narrator looks in to the camera and says 'Wiser, older... much like myself'
Suggested Elements: The main element this film will rely on is humour and relating to a wide audience of people. For this reason any aspects of the film must not be too narrow and must be relevant to a majority, if not all students. For example, most students will have experienced the 'teenage heartbreak' and will also be familiar with having to be up to date with current trends. The dressing up will poke fun at most people as it is something they have done, and should be done humorously with un-expected things like plucking eyebrows.
The narrator will be a key element as he is the connection with the viewer that facilitates all the humour. Everything that is done on screen must be narrated in a nature-documentary way and done effectively otherwise the audience will just be watching a student walk round. The narrator must also be effective to allow for the final joke to work well, as the unexpectedness of the narrator being in bed with the teen will be what makes it funny.