MEST2 Research and planning

Five opening scenes from television programmes aimed at an audience similar to the brief (E4 18-35 year olds). This means the programmes will conform to Channel 4's remit to “foster the new and experimental in television.  It will encourage pluralism, provide a favoured place for the untried and encourage innovation in style content perspective and talent on and off screen”.

Top Boy 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw0f4l_top-boy-episode-1_shortfilms

Top Boy is a British television drama series that was first broadcast on Channel 4. Season 1 was broadcast over consecutive nights, from 31 October to 3 November 2011. Set on the fictional Summerhouse housing estate in Hackney, the series follows the lives of a group of people involved in drug dealing and street gangs.

Overall, this opening scene brings a lot of suspense and asks the audience a lot of questions. Why are they're very young people selling drugs? Who are these people? Why did they get robbed? Why is the boy just watching casually?

Youngers

Youngers is a British comedy drama series. It began airing on E4 on 20 March 2013. The opening scene is of two young boys who are sitting their GCSE's and they're on their way to their results day. It is a classic because it shows the difference between the two characters lives. Yemi realised he has to work hard and was studying hard whereas, jay was slacking off and messing about and this shows the classic difference between the two young boys' lives. This is interesting because this is certainly the case for many youngsters in today's British society. 

Inbetweeners

The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom that originally aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show followed the life of suburban teenager Will McKenzie (Simon Bird) and his three friends at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The episodes involved situations of school bullying, broken family life, indifferent school staff, male bonding, and largely failed sexual encounters.

Will the main character faces many different obstacles throughout his time at his new school like being bullied by the popular school bully. The way will deals with these obstacles is funny abstract and very entertaining so hooks the audience between the target age.

My Murder

My murder is a British TV series that is based around a true story of a young boy coming out of a jail spell and trying to turn his life around. Part of him changing his life around involved a girl that he trusted but she ended up setting him up because of her boyfriend who was part of this gang. Shak the victim of the murder and the main character is the narrator of his own story this creates suspense and tension because the audience listen to him telling his own story on how he got murdered.