Planning of My Film Trailer

Inspiration for my film

The inspiration of my film came from the 2004 hit American teen comedy film “Mean Girls”, starring Lindsey Lohan. In the film a new girl arrives at the school and is an instant hit with the “Plastics” clique who is the mean girls of the school. Throughout the film, the target audience see the girls playing tricks on each other, going behind each others backs to find out information and gossip about each other and competing for the attention of the leading man of the film, Jonathan Bennett. This has inspired my film because I wanted to create a film that was funny within itself and the characters but a film that also had a bit of romance developed into it.

Plot Summary of my film

My film will be based on 2 teenage girls who used to be best friends when they were little who have grown apart and into enemies as they grew up into teenagers and are the complete opposite of each other. One is a Goth and one is a complete girly girl (like the “Plastics”). A new boy moves into the neighbour hood who they both want. The girls battle each other in cunning and manipulative ways by playing tricks on each other in order to win the affections of the new boy in town.

This follows Levi Strauss’ theory of binary opposition as the 2 girls contrast with each other. The film will also follow Todorov’s Equilibrium theory as the characters will be doing their normal everyday life where they ignore each other, then the new boy moves onto the block and it throws the film into disequilibrium and then a new equilibrium is created at the end of the film. However, only half of this will be shown in the teaser trailer as it would tell the target audience how the film ends if I showed them the new equilibrium.

What audience expectation does the title give?

The title of my film is “My Enemy’s Boyfriend”. This gives the audience expectation that the film will be a romantic comedy and aimed at females because it gives the impression and expectation that love is involved. It also gives the audience the expectation that there will be some arguing and fighting as the title refers to a character as an “Enemy”. This portrays Barthes Enigma Code because it makes the audience wonder what the fascination is with the enemy’s boyfriend and why they are after him in the first place. This will make the target audience intrigued as to what will happen in the film.

Characters

There will be 3 main characters in my film, there will be the 2 best friends who are now enemies, one will be a Goth and the other will be a stereotypical girly girl. There will also be the leading man who will have the typical “new boy on the block” look that makes all the girls want to have him. My characters fit Propp’s Stock Characters because there will be a love interest (the new boy), there will be a villain and a hero although the 2 main characters each have these features within them, and there will be the friends of the 2 main characters who will be the helpers in the film.