Genre:
The genre we have chosen is a hybrid of comedy and fantasy and we will use the established film style of social realism as it is about poverty. Our genre is similar to the short film "About a girl" because that is also a comedy which is about real life issues. However "About a girl" hasn't got a fantasy aspect like ours does. A film that has a similar fantasy feel like ours is a film called "Inception" which is where we got the inspiration for the dream idea.
Representation:
Our film both positively and negatively represents the life of a famous person. For example at the beginning our protagonist starts off being really happy and is enjoying the attention. Then we show the negative sides to being famous as our film progresses and we show this through the character getting more and more unhappy.
The negative representation is also shown when we see her look at herself in the window reflection behind the poster. We will use a shallow depth of field to do this and to imply to the audience that she doesn't like the person she becomes.
Our film gives a negative representation of homeless people because it supports the stereotype that homeless people are involved with drugs.
Audience:
Our target audience are 17-18 year olds because that is the age that we are so we know what they relate to. Females are who we are mainly aiming our film at because they are the ones that dream about being famous but we hope to interest the male audience as well. We feel as though females would relate to it more. We aren't aiming our film at a particular social class because it shows both extreme sides of life (poverty and being famous). We would use social media to show our film to raise awareness to everyone about the issues shown in the film but we would also try to get our film shown in an independent cinema.
You are right to make your comments about representation of homelessness, but I think you should explain this in relation to your story needs and your commitment to social realism (it's not necessarily negative in the sense that it's realistic - you're not dealing in stereotypes which is more negative).
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