EvAlUaTiON fOr ALL FOR A BOY

For my practical production, I worked with Zara to produce a short docudrama called ‘All For A Boy’. The docudrama is concentrated on a 15-year-old teenager who copes with situations many girls in the 21st century deal with, when it comes to a deciding between education and boys. We chose the title for our docudrama as ‘All For A Boy’ as it is based around a boy and how she devotes her life to him, this would grab our target audience attention and make them want to watch it as our primary audience is females, this would occur more to them as there is a female protagonists that plays the main role in the docudrama.

We both decided the job roles and responsibilities that we both undertook, as I filmed and Zara played the main role in the docudrama and we both shared responsibilities to do editing. However when it came to editing it was a very stressful time as we had difficult circumstances to deal with but we did overcome the difficulties and it did work out for the better. My role between us both was to film the whole docudrama, input on ideas and a lot of editing as there were only two of us, it was difficult but we got through it successfully.

Our opening sequence was a montage of shots of short snap shots of Zara the female protagonist in uniform, and short main bits of what will be happing in the docudrama. This was done to convey to the audience was the girl putting on makeup and getting dressed for school or is it more like her boyfriend? As it tells us its all about her life as well as seeing scenes of her and main scenes that will be in the docudrama itself. The music we use with this we think worked really well as we decided to have Crazy in love, a song which tells us the girl is wrapped up in his love and that she’s going ‘crazy’ over her boyfriend but we only used the beginning of the song which does not real use much dialogue but the title itself expresses and introduces the character.



Our docudrama we thought uses a TODROV narrative theory and Rabigers suggestion, as it tells a beginning, middle and an end, furthermore it tells a good narrative as well. As it starts with a equilibrium and it then later on creates a disequilibrium which drags the attention in to the docudrama more as this is when Zara comes to a state of mind where her boyfriend dumps her and fails her GCSE exams and then in the end we see Zara realizing her mistakes and sees it was not worth what she done was ‘All For A Boy’.

We also used the theory of PROPP when the heroine being the main protagonist Zara as she comes across many situations which are arisen in the docudrama and overcomes it by understands what she’s doing wrong. We also see binary oppositions between the two characters Zara and Saman this is used to show the characters parallel links. In addition we use dual narrative, this is where we show two stories happing at the same time, as we will see good (Zara) VS evil (Saman) when you see a bedroom scene to show the audience what they both doing at one time we shows this by using a split screen of them both when they both are meant to be doing homework but what the audience really see is one doing the right thing and completing her homework but on the other hand you see the total opposite when zara does not do her homework instead she finds giving her boyfriend 100% attention more important.

Further more we decided to interview zara’s schoolteacher, to discuss her behavior and her attitude towards educations and school, and we also put in vox popz to show what other teenager’s views were of on what they thought of ‘how boys affect girls’? As the situation is arisen over boys taking control over a teenage girls life, making them a main priortory in the girl life’s and the things they may do to stop them from getting a education which may affect them long term as they would not succeed much in life. During the interview we bold out main words such as make up, boys and fashion as he mentions have become more important then education, this would draw the target audience’s attention towards what he is saying.

In module 2 we studied ‘Bowling For Columbine’, we noticed some of the similarities between documentaries as we use main conventions as Michael Moore does such as voice over, editing styles theories such as PROPP, TODROV, he also uses binary oppositions between Michael Moore and Charlton Heston and shows himself in a good view and Charlton Heston in a bad position. As our music we used was Parraell to the scenes when zara breaks up with her boyfriend they are arguing and we put a slow song representing what the girl is feeling. After the opening sequence we have a short voice over to introduce on the main female character, as it would let the audience know exactly what is going on and narrative the documentary is, similarly Michael Moore uses the same technique.

We also use non linear technique were there is flashback on the scenes when zara is with her boyfriend, this would show how she was meant to be in school this is shown when she argues with her teacher a flashback appear of Zara and Ali together in black and white letting the audience know where she was but however making her excuse up for why she was late to his lesson, nevertheless this represented and informed how boyfriends tend to make girlfriends late for school and don’t consider it important whereas the female is wrapped up in the lust that she forgets about her main concern and devotes herself all to her boyfriend.

It may lead from negligible things like being late fore school and not competing homework but when it came to exams it becomes a different story and leads back to revising all the work learnt if your hardly in lessons and never completing work your only expected to fail, we wanted to show the audience how the girl would give everything up all for the boy but what happened when he decides to leave her, but when it happens the girl is so heart broken and upset she does not concentrate revising and on her exams what it more likely for girls leads to fail, and later on in life may reflect as not succeeding to what they may of wanted to become.

All for a boy is shown on a commercial channel (PSB), which is channel 4 and would be shown after water schedule, and when more of our target audience would most likely be watching television. The channel broadcasts documentaries and similar situations, which teenage have to face on a day-to-day basis.

In conclusion all for a boy’s purpose was to educate and inform our target audience as well as entertaining them about how teenage girls have become in today’s society and what extents they would go ‘All For A Boy’.

bY JASMIT CHOLIA
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