Planning: Choosing an Idea

For my final A2 Media Studies project, I have chosen to do a trailer for a short biopic film following the story of a young footballer on his path to success in the Champions League, Premier League and at the World Cup for the English National Team. The piece will be called 'World at Your Feet'. I chose this Idea over the Hip-Hop and RnB music videos because I felt I could be much more creative with a short biopic film trailer as music videos tend to have stricter conventions that must be followed. With this idea, I have a lot more freedom with what I can do and furthermore, I can either follow certain conventions or I can choose to subvert them for dramatic effect

This will allow me to develop new skills that I may not have had knowledge of during last year's AS Coursework and it could also allow me to display my skills in a different type of genre that I have not had previous experience of exploring and using for a project. I feel doing a biopic would be more challenging than my other ideas because I have to find the perfect actor suitable for the role I want to portray and also the camerawork and editing I would have to do will be more complicated.

I also feel that the target audience I would have to cater for may be different to the target audiences of my music video ideas. This is because the audience for my biopic will most likely be male football fans and on the other hand people that like rap/hip-hop may not like football as much as the intended target market of my biopic trailer. Therefore, my intended target audience will be more likely to enjoy my biopic as they are fans of football and would be probably understand and connect with the story better. However, I could incorporate RnB beats to match the high intensity and tension of being a professional footballer. This could make the trailer appeal to people that enjoy RnB but aren't fans of football and could make them enjoy it. Finally, the trailer would be perfect for people that are both fans of football and RnB because it would combine their two of their favourite things.

My second best idea was to do a hip-hop/rap video aimed at teenagers aged between 15-18. However, I didn't really plan a narrative for this idea, therefore, it was a weaker idea than my biopic short film trailer which had a clear narrative. I also felt that I couldn't really come up with an original music video idea in the hip-hop/rap genre as I felt I would just be copying previous ideas that were original ideas. Furthermore, hip-hop videos are easier to film than biopics and I felt that I wanted to challenge myself rather than stick with a safe option that may not test my skills that much.