AS Media Studies: 2012

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

One of the main characters is Alice. Alice had died in the 1950's therefore her fashion will be slightly behind Rosie's who was born in the 60's. Therefore to create this I have looked into hairstyles that were mostly known and used in the 50's.

Research into events

I have researched into the type of events that had happened in the era of the 60's as this is what era our film opening will be based in. I have looked at the events that had hit the big headlines cross the country so that in the narration over the film opening we can relate back to these events which will tell you about the other characters in her life like her family members. By doing this we will be making the time zone be more realistic to the viewers.

Monday, 3 December 2012

Further Name Research

However, we then decided after some disagreements to the name that we should change the second girls name to match everyone's liking. For our second girls name we had looked at the top names in the 1950's as the girl died 10 years before Alice, meaning we needed a name ten years younger. However, we looked at the names but didn't think or agree on any suiting the girls particular character. We eventually saw the name Rose where we thought we could then expand it to Rosie.

Males		Females
Rank	Name	Number	Name	Number
1	James	842,953	Mary	625,402
2	Michael	836,764	Linda	564,122
3	Robert	829,630	Patricia	459,490
4	John	797,135	Susan	437,629
5	David	769,246	Deborah	430,425
6	William	590,675	Barbara	345,606
7	Richard	534,880	Debra	341,235
8	Thomas	453,955	Karen	332,420
9	Mark	382,316	Nancy	286,703
10	Charles	360,774	Donna	270,271
11	Steven	333,418	Cynthia	263,337
12	Gary	329,561	Sandra	251,485
13	Joseph	299,726	Pamela	237,329
14	Donald	273,251	Sharon	232,750
15	Ronald	270,841	Kathleen	224,251
16	Kenneth	262,552	Carol	222,580
17	Paul	252,955	Diane	210,556
18	Larry	245,359	Brenda	209,192
19	Daniel	243,481	Cheryl	171,346
20	Stephen	207,087	Janet	167,460
21	Dennis	204,003	Elizabeth	165,603
22	Timothy	198,161	Kathy	157,894
23	Edward	188,181	Margaret	149,529
24	Jeffrey	184,501	Janice	133,564
25	George	180,836	Carolyn	124,023
26	Gregory	178,294	Denise	123,750
27	Kevin	158,935	Judy	118,013
28	Douglas	148,069	Rebecca	115,655
29	Terry	140,550	Joyce	114,934
30	Anthony	136,570	Teresa	114,242
31	Jerry	136,423	Christine	113,306
32	Bruce	136,297	Catherine	108,797
33	Randy	120,447	Shirley	108,763
34	Brian	112,276	Judith	108,715
35	Frank	112,180	Betty	103,170
36	Scott	111,772	Beverly	97,747
37	Roger	110,027	Lisa	95,817
38	Raymond	108,840	Laura	95,511
39	Peter	102,673	Theresa	89,578
40	Patrick	96,780	Connie	88,787
41	Keith	91,180	Ann	87,019
42	Lawrence	91,031	Julie	86,689
43	Wayne	88,021	Gloria	86,669
44	Danny	86,533	Gail	85,599
45	Alan	83,921	Joan	85,147
46	Gerald	82,530	Paula	84,842
47	Ricky	79,086	Peggy	84,259
48	Carl	78,677	Cindy	83,970
49	Christopher	78,154	Martha	83,165
50	Dale	75,462	Bonnie	82,989
51	Walter	72,101	Jane	82,887
52	Craig	69,450	Cathy	82,700
53	Willie	66,384	Robin	82,406
54	Johnny	65,699	Debbie	82,092
55	Arthur	65,654	Diana	80,194
56	Steve	64,177	Marilyn	80,139
57	Joe	62,568	Kathryn	77,764
58	Randall	62,375	Dorothy	74,461
59	Jack	62,361	Wanda	72,417
60	Russell	62,346	Jean	72,245
61	Henry	62,190	Vicki	71,970
62	Harold	62,090	Sheila	70,142
63	Roy	61,760	Virginia	69,766
64	Andrew	60,939	Sherry	68,320
65	Philip	60,802	Katherine	66,833
66	Ralph	60,363	Rose	66,703
67	Billy	59,210	Lynn	66,022
68	Glenn	58,658	Jo	63,944
69	Stanley	57,101	Ruth	62,497
70	Jimmy	54,827	Maria	62,346

Name Research

We have looked into similar ideas to our film opening, and we came across 'Marchlands' which was a previous TV old-fashioned thriller drama. In this drama there was a girl called Alice, so we decided to go with this name as we think it fits in very well with the genre and will add to the aim of the film opening being a bit eary, achieving our genre's thriller's side.

Below we had researched into the top baby names for boys and girls in the era of the 60's as this is when our film is going to be based. We had looked into the names of where we came to a decision of the name Mona. We chose this as we thought it matched well to our thriller / fantasy genre and was a well suited name.

Female Names

Meaning

My List

Male Names

Meaning

My List

Emily

admiring