Genre Research: Teen Romance Drama

STOCK CHARACTERS:

• family/ parents
• friends
• teachers
• classmates
• bullies
• troubled teenagers (girl/boy)
• broken, unhappy
• therapists/counsellors

STOCK SETTINGS:

• school/ place of education
• home
• streets
• outside
• parks
• shopping centres
• cafes/ restaurants

STOCK THEMES:

• love
• romance
• lust
• hurt
• betrayal
• destruction
• rebelliousness

PLOT:

• rebellious teens
• love story - kindred spirits
• finding a place where they belong
• standing up to family/bullies

ICONOGRAPHY:

• Props: school essentials, rucksack, mobile phone, make up, computer, laptop, iPod, drugs, trainers etc ...
• ordinary appearance, do not stand out visually but are left out (outcast), contrast
• youthful clothing

NARRATIVE:

• two separate characters find each other
• one character (outcast) meets another - protagonist's perspective