GRADUATION

ORBIT STUDIOS

WHY UNIVERSAL?

We have chosen universal to distribute our film because they are a global company with large funding which would allow a big budget for our film and the ability to distribute our product worldwide as we feel it appeals to a large target audience and this would increase revenue. Universal also has experience distributing similar products as they have distributed the American pie franchise which we believe our product shares many conventions with and could achieve similar success with the backing of Universal due to their understanding of the genre.

HOW GRADUATION FOLLOW GENRE CONVENTIONS

We researched into the genre to find the conventions of the narrative and what conventions made films successful, for this we researched three successful teen comedies; Superbad, American pie and Mean girls. From this research we found typical narrative conventions include parties, alcohol, sex, losing virginity social cliques and relationships. We also found that most are set in high schools/college or parties, so we have set ours at both high school and at a big high school party. We have also tried to incorporate most of the successful conventions into our narrative.

WOULD GRADUATION APPEAL TO THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

We believe that graduation will appeal to its target audience as we have followed the conventions of successful teen comedies. It also contains crude humour which is a vital element of teen comedies and the characters are of similar age to the target audience which means the audience should be able to relate to the characters as well as the settings and situations which are typical of teenagers. We believe with the help of Universal, Graduation could turnover huge profits similarly seen with the American pie franchise and we also believe there would be opportunity for a sequel if successful.

PLOT AND CAST The plot revolves around 3 socially awkward high school nerds; Adam, Eddy and George who are approaching the end of the school year and are trying to make it to the ‘cool’ end of year graduating party in order to gain more social status and impress the popular girls in the hopes of losing their virginities. Eddy also sees it as the last opportunity to talk to his crush of 5 years whom he has never told how he feels.

CastGeorge – Brett TinnionAdam – Kirby Parish Eddy- David Stubbs Chloe – Chloe MasonLuke- Luke ThorneJock 1 – Aaron Short Jock 2 – Joe Lilley