Representation Task: Identifications of stereotypes in teen films

The most common stereotypes you find in a teen movie are:

• The jocks who are at the top of the school clique; geeks who are the most smartest people but the most socially awkward; uptight cheerleaders who think they are the bees knees; bullies who push everyone out of their way; the girl who is transformed from the loser to the princess; the prom kings and queen; the clowns who make a joke out of every situation …

(Jesse Metcalfe - 'John Tucker' in John Tucker Must Die)

• Everyone hanging out at school (typical High School); the diner; the school car park; the track field; the changing rooms; at home; in the bedroom, living room or kitchen; at house parties; at prom; in the toilet; street corners; the 'mall'…

(Emma Stone - 'Olive Penderghast' in Easy A) - Set in a typical American high school.

• The main themes of falling hopelessly in love; family conflicts; sports; summer flings; exploring sexuality; 

(Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart - 'Edward Cullen and Bella Swan' in Twilight) Main theme is of a human falling in love with a vampire.

Order of Titles Explanation

Order of Titles Explained

 

 

1. At the beginning of every order of titles, are the Production idents. These are the people who produced the film in the first place and therefore are responsible for it being made.

 

2. Afterwards the production idents, it is the distribution idents. Then the music starts in the background. After that, the titles begin.

 

3. The film title is shown which establishes what film the audience is watching.

 

4. We are then shown the other production companies which are much smaller than Fox Searchlight, but equally as important.

 

5. Afterwards, the actors and director are shown. Big names will appear first and if the director is huge, they will appear twice. Once at the begin and once more at the end.

 

6. Lastly, all the techinal crews are displayed, from music supervisor to co-producer to production designers and etc.....

 

 

 

 

Timetoast order of titles. - Juno

More updates from feedback

We are now making the title sequence in Motion to make our film opening more professional. The photo above is the film title - 'The Unknown'. We chose the template splash as we feel it was the one that fit with our opening the most as it was quite abstract. We have now made the sequence of title names, which are in the right order, and will all be exactly 2 seconds long.

Changes made from rough cut feedback

I'd started to make some light changes from the feedback we received for our Rough Cut. These are only small changes regarding the match cuts and titles mainly. 

The above photo is regarding the distribution ident which needed to stay on the screen a little longer before it moves to the film title. 

The match cut in this shot was not as smooth or slick as it should be. This was due to the angles we filmed from. Therefore I went back and perfected the match cut making it seamless and professional. 

At this point, the mise-en-scene was compromised as you could see the camera reflection in the window. Therefore I edited it so our actor stopped earlier and blocked the reflection out. 

What next? 

From this point onwards we have small changes to make regarding the titles as they do not flow, are not in order, they are all not 3 seconds and overall too simple. Therefore as there is a lot of time left, I've decided to produce the titles on Motion, hopefully making our film opening more professional. 

Fake Blood- The Making Of

As our Opening scene included a girl covered in blood we had to make fake blood (as we couldn't use real blood). We first searched the internet for recipes on how to make fake blood, we came across a number of recipes on the website WikiHow (how to make fake blood). This website was useful as it showed many ways of making it.
 Here are some pictures of the process:

Audience Feedback of Rough Cut

Audience Feedback

After we had shown our rough cut for feedback, we were told we had a few errors and had to change them in order to make our film opening better. 

1. According to the audience, our distributing title had to be longer as the audience could not see how was distributing our film long enough. In turn, we will make it longer in order for the audiences to see our indents. 

2. As soon as the title sequence had started, the first title is Director. From our audience feedback, they had said that the Director title must come at the end, if you are a very well known director, the beginning and end, however, in this case, only at the end. 

3. In the title sequence it said 'Actors' rather than 'Starring' which the audience had suggested. They also thought that the order of titles was too quick and should have a rhythmic pace to it,in order for the audience to take in who was responsible for what in the film opening. 

4. Lastly, in one of the shots, the camera equipment could be seen in the reflection of a glass window. The audience believe that ruined the continuity and should be cut slightly if possible. This will make the filming opening closer to the plot.