Analysis of High School and Youth Drama

Task 1: ANALYSIS

Analyse title sequences for both High School and Youth drama films, making notes on the titles that we see in each, the order they come in, the category of title sequence that they use, the font or type face they use and the type of content we see behind them. Record your analysis in to the grid below and then post it to your blog as evidence of your research.

	Youth Drama  eg  1 My Brother the Devil	Youth Drama eg2 Beautiful Thing	High School Drama eg 1 10 Things I hate about you	High School Drama eg 2 Mean Girls
What titles do we see and in which order?	In Order of what appeared on screen: Production Company Main Cast Executive Producer Producers Writer Directors Title	In Order of what appeared on screen: Production Company Main Cast Title Cast Writer Producer Director	In Order of what appeared on screen: Production Company Title Main Cast Music Director Costume Designer Co-Producer Editor Executive Producers Producer Writer Director	In Order of what appeared on screen: Production Company Main Character Title Main Cast Music Supervisor Music Producer Co-Producer Costumer Designer Editor Production Design Photography Executive Producer Director
Category / type of title	Moving Images, Still Images	Moving Images	Moving Images	Moving Image with title on
What font / type face is used (describe this if you aren’t sure)	Font was mainly plain and use of Capital Letters	The font is Yellow to make it clear to the audience what is being shown and it is mostly Bold.	Handwriting is used in this and changes in different frames	Use of different colours throughout. Also a use of Bold font to attract the audience to read the information.
What action do we see behind the titles?	Shows one of the main characters walking home	it shows the setting of the film; where it is set	There is a conversation being held with a main character as they are introduced.	Shows the backstory of the main character. Then as the film starts goes the scene in the school.

Task 2: Differences between the two sub-genres

Now write a summary about the order and type of title sequences in High School drama films:

High School Drama films will firstly show the production company with moving images. The director will usually be shown last. These types of films will be of higher budget so they will be able to show more titles in the credit as they have a budget for it.

Now write a summary about the order and type of title sequences in Youth drama films:

Youth Drama films tend to show the production company first then goes onto show the main cast of the production due to being less financed the title sequence budget is lower therefore there is less credits.

Now summarise the main differences in the title sequences of films from each sub-genre

The difference between the two sub-genre films is that High school dramas will have a higher budget therefore there will be a higher amount spent on these title sequences which will mean the quality will be higher and more credit titles. Differently Youth Drama films tend to be of lower budgets therefore having less title credits in the sequence.

Come back to this handout when you are planning the titles for your own teen title sequence after Christmas.