Insipration for A2 coursework

The inspiration I got for this idea is mostly off watching a lot of CBBC dramas when they are on, things such as The Sarah Jane Adventures, which has a sci-fi element which is close to a supernatural element, this gave me the inspiration for the older teenager because it has 3 older teenagers and one grown up and they go out and try and save the world, you could also say that I also got the inspiration for the part of one being more left out then the others, this is because in many of the episodes one character called Clyde  gets left out a lot when they go out as he always becomes a liability to the rest of them and is less intelligent. Another children’s TV drama that I got inspiration from is The Sparticle Mystery which is the programme where 10 kids are left on earth by themselves because everyone over the age of 15 has disappeared, I got the inspiration for using a younger cast for the children’s TV drama because everyone in The Sparticle Mystery is under the age of 15 and some of them are dressed like they come from a typical lower class background and others come from stereotyped upper class background. Another children’s drama which is like the narrative that I thought of is a series that was made last year and only made one series called postcode which focuses on the different social gangs of a certain area, in one part of the area where some children and teenagers live in well-off families and in the other part of the area is where other children and teenagers live in an area which is full of gangs and crime. This was a teatime drama which drew in a younger teenage age group. This links in with my idea of the 4 characters being the main gang which they all come from one of these areas which are run by gangs and this other 5^th character living in a well off family. But unlike the series Postcode which had only a small age group from younger to older teenagers say about 12-15 the programme series that narrative describes should attract 7-15 yrs as it has supernatural stuff and it has the lessons which older teenagers can look at and think ‘’that was me’’. Plus supernatural stuff can also attract the older teenager as they still are interested in stuff like that. That’s why The Sarah Jane Adventures was so popular until it finished.

The front cover nof the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. As said in the pitch for the DVD cover I want this kind of thing making one thing stand out on the front cover and making the others as part of the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7yBXPam6L4-trailer for series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Ideas on the title sequence and for the DVD cover.

This is the DVD cover for The Sparticle Mystery, it also has the same sort of idea that I had in mind with making 4 of the main characters stand out and making the other characters hidden in the background or not as bright as the other 4 main ones. It also gives the idea of the cast I wanted for my product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmTI1KfXqw- Trailer for TheSparticle Mystery

The main cast for the series postcode. Seeing the way they are dressed in the photo gives ideas for what the characters in the product that I want to create.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXy5VAzJE4 - Trailer for Postcode.