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For my A2 assignment I planned to produce a two-part drama text for the television medium. I used Panasonic domestic camcorders to film the footage and Adobe Premier 6.5 digital editing software to edit the footage. For my AS coursework I produced the opening sequence of a new thriller film in the medium of film, I used the same technology for both years.

Originally we planned to film the trailer of a comedy, but realised that the market was flowing with them with shows like ‘Gavin and Stacey’, ‘Little Brittan’ ‘My Family’ etc. Other group members also wanted to construct a soap based around the romance genre, as it seemed to be very popular with the young, female audience, but as we couldn’t decide which genre to go with, we decided to construct a RomCom, as we thought it best suited and entertained our age range audience. We then developed it with ideas coming in from all group members, until it was clear we were going to produce a light hearted two-part drama.

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In light of the recent popularity of the musical genre (High School Musical), we felt that we would succeed with this theme because we have all watched and researched this genre ourselves. Also we thought it would be popular to bring in elements from the hit reality shows like Big Brother and X-factor and elements of Friends and Beverly Hills as they were extremely popular with our targeted audience and so would appeal immediately. I believe it’s something original and we hoped to fill a gap in the market as there is not currently a television drama with this ...

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