All Aboard!

I've officially gotten all my actors ready for their time in the limelight so now it's research time.  As I mentioned previously City Day is going to be a teen comedy so it should be pretty obvious who the target audience is, I just need to make changes and adjustments in order to fit this target.

One of the first things I realized that I needed in order to appeal to the modern teen is diversity. IndieWire explains that popular films still fail to represent teen girls from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, considering my goal to be a progressive and current film I made sure to have a prevalent hispanic female main character introduced in the film from the beginning, not as a trope but as someone people can look towards.  UCLA’s Ralph Bunche Center reports that audiences are growing in their demand for diversity in films and to meet these demands, the cast of the film itself is all people of latino descent.  This focus on representation is going to be a big plus for the story.

As I research more on the teen comedy genre I will continually make shifts and changes in order to fit it best.