Target Audience

The target audience for my project is teenagers, as my narrative is based upon a teenaged girl and the troubles she faces I feel that teenagers will be able to connect most with my character and my piece as a whole.

Chloe Maxwell, 16, Newcastle

Chloe is an example of my target audience. 

Profile

Chloe is in her first year of sixth form at Dane Court grammar school, she studies English, Geography, Business and Art and is predicted ABBC. She listens to pop music, her favourite artist being Ellie Goulding. Chloe enjoys reading and contemporary art, she loves visiting the galleries in London. When she grows up she wants to be an English teacher. Chloe's favourite colour is orange and she enjoys watching thriller films, her favourite being Shutter Island. 

I feel that Chloe would enjoy my narrative piece as she is the same age as my character Joy, Chloe has probably experienced similar situations and experiences to Joy which means she can emphasise with the character and storyline.

Basic Storyboard

Key Words

Research: Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

"Fun Home (subtitled A Family Tragicomic) is a 2006 graphic memoir by American writer Alison Bechdel. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father."

The narrative of Fun Home is non-linear and recursive. Incidents are told and re-told in the light of new information or themes. The illustrations within Fun Home are quite simple, black and white line drawings with speech bubbles and a short extract of text explaining what's going on at the top. 

"The book interweaves incidents from family and individual lives with Alison's childhood journal entries, her father's photographs, and scenes from the books she and her father share as a form of personal communication and analysis." The comic goes back and forwards between past and present, this is something I feel is really effective and keeps the audience interested and engaged with the narrative.