Teen drama

As well as being a mystery film, by short film also falls under the genre teen drama. Teen dramas are typically watched by teens due to being highly relatable, teenagers can be very judgmental which means that everything that has been included in the scene will be judged by the audience watching. This includes everything from the ways in which the actors have dressed, the style in which they have done their make up and the language that is used.

Teen drama is a quite a new genre as it first started during the early 1990s as TV series like Beverly Hills and 90210 were aired on Fox. Due to these two series being such a success producers saw that they should start producing more shows of a similar genre to them, as they were appealing to start a large audience, the demographics that the teen drama has had previously been ignored by producers. Before teen dramas had come around the genre in which appealed to teens were sitcoms. During most TV dramas they include a soap opera element to them which means that within the story line
there are more than one problem occurring that will then go on to be solved. The most typical storylines for teen dramas are dramatic ups and downs that occur within friendship groups and with the current romances that actors are pursuing, these events are all typical events that an average teenagers would face in their lives also however the TV series will be showing them with a lot more drama behind them.

When teen dramas started being aired that was not the name they were first given, one of the first shows that appealed to a teen audience was 'Never too Young' which was aired from 1965 to 1966'. As time started to progress a younger audience started to find it easier to be able to related to the shows that were being broadcasted during the daytime, this was occurring during the 1960s to early 1970s. Another popular show that aired and become a success was 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing', this was then followed by two more shows during 1973. 'All my children' and 'The Young and the Restless'.

During prime time many of the shows that were aired tired to also gain a lot of attention to a younger and more teenage audience, with many more adolescent characters being added.  Examples where this occurred are TV shows like, 'Eight is Enough', 'Family', 'Little House on the Prairie', 'The Waltons' and 'James at 15' however that wad very short lived. One of the longest running teen dramas was Grange Hill which was a British produced TV series, the series ran from the late 1970s into the late 2000s, it featured teenagers in a school setting which is a similar scenario to my short film which shows that the idea I have gone for is successful.

The WB network was created in January 1995, the main target audience of this was teenagers. Within three years of the network being created TV shows like 'One Tree Hill' and 'Gilmore Girls', The shows gained a large fan base from teenagers that watched them.