Evaluation: Q5

Here is an interview with the main character of the teen movie 'Struggles of a Teenage Girl'. 

Evaluation: Q6

Evaluation: Q7

Research & Planning 

Prelim - There was not much research done when planning to film the prelim, the only planning that was really done was the storyboard.

 Here is the original digital storyboard
that was created for the prelim.

Teen Film Opening - The research that was done for the film was watching a number of different teen film openings to get an idea of what to produce/create for our work. A storyboard was also made for our teen film and we done research into the clothes that teens wear in teen movies, the different stereotypes and also binary oppositions.

Evaluation Question 1

The typical conventions of a teen film opening often includes:

• a teenage character
• the character to be of a particular stereotype (e.g. jock, princess, nerd, etc.)
• typical locations (e.g. high school, the home)
• a form of transport
• an introduction to the characters and/or setting 

 

 

The conventions of title sequences:

• The director normally goes last
• Production and Distribution titles and idents go first
• The title of the film stands out the most
• More than one actor in the opening
• Each title lasts on-screen for 3-5 seconds (and have gaps in between)
• There's a large gap between the actors and the crew

Evaluation Question 2

Earlier in the year, we learned about the representation of stereotypes. Every teen character from a teen film has a stereotype that is shown in a particular way so that the audience knows the type of character they are (pictured) 

In our teen film, we only have one character, therefore there's only one stereotype - the 'skater'. This slidely shows how we achieved portraying the skater stereotype.

The skater stereotype by Slidely Slideshow

The skater stereotype has both a positive and negative stereotype:

• Positive:
• our character is seeing rushing to get to school on time (which she unfortunately doesn't)
• Negative (to parents, teachers and other adults):
• purposely sleeps through alarm
• puts on dirty clothes for school

The four key areas (camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene) also helps us to achieve this stereotype:

• Camerawork
• the camera is at an eye-level which tells us she is not shown as being dominant (normally shown at a low angle) or being belittled (normally shown at a high angle)
• the camera also pans across the character's room, showing the things that she is interested in
• there is a close up of the skateboard she rides to school, and a skateboard is the key to portraying the stereotype
• Editing
• most of the film is shown in fast-motion, which shows the frantic state her laziness has left her in
• the match cut shows the audience how she travels to school
• Sound
• the pop-punk rock soundtrack is what first gives away her skater stereotype
• Mise-en-scene
• the skateboard prop (see camerawork)
• the clothes also tells the audience that she is a skater

Evaluation Question 3

Here our the idents for our production company, RSY Productions Inc., and our distribution company, 21st Century Chien.

Evaluation Question 4

The wider teen movie audience are generally teenagers, some films such as High School Musical being suitable for pre-teens (10-11),17 Again and Mean Girls being more suitable for the younger teenagers (12+) and movies like American Pie and The Breakfast Club for the older ones (15+). 
This is because certain films have certain contents (e.g. sexual contents or bad language) which are allowed to be seen by teenagers of a certain age. Girls tend to watch more teen films due to the main character being a female also and the love interest of the character is often the teen heartthrob of the present day.

Although, some adults do watch teen movies either because the storylines remind them of their own childhood or it contains some older actors.

However, for our teen film, because the sub-genre is a rom-com, it would appeal to both sexes equally; the comedy more relating to the male side, the romantic more the female side. I still think more females will watch it as the main character of the film is a girl, but because the character is of a 'skater' stereotype, this could appeal more to males.

An example of a member of the specific audience would be 'Charlotte', a 19-year old from California who likes bands such as Fall Out Boy, Wheatus and Blink-182. She skates, works at Vans and is a fan of Tony Hawk. She also has Twitter, popular site amongst teenagers.

This is the type of person who I think would watch our teen film.