Character summary

Protagonist: Male, 17, mother dies suddenly in a car crash causing his dad to go into serious depression. When he is going through his mums belongings he discovers her past of growing up as a mod, consequently leading him into a severe obsession with the Mods and Rockers era. His lifestyle changes dramatically revolving around his new, unhealthy obsession that leads him into a new group of friends but also into drugs and paranoia. The medias representation of teenage boys reflects in our depiction of our protagonist, television shows such as Skins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6zFBji_vQ) show teenagers to be drug abusers, obsessive and selfish. However we will try to challenge part of the stereotype as normally the rebelling teenagers have nothing wrong and they are lashing out at nothing however we see that our main character has developed the obsession after a severe trauma. throughout different films and television programmes when a teenagers are involved the lighting is high key and bright, the props are normally alcohol bottles, cluttered rubbish and the soundtrack is normally loud, we will use all of this in our trailer. 

Father: Become depressed and neglects his son after his wife dies. We studied the film “The Hours” to understand how the media portrays depression as many books and documentaries present it as an intensely private affliction, but its effects are much more widespread and we feel the film shows this. The film shows inability  to do simple things such as bake cakes or look after children properly. Low key lighting and quite music was udes and no quick edits this was too create the effect of a slow, dim moving life. we wil use these techniques while editing and filming with the dad.