Teen movie research

We have decided that our film opening will begin as a teen movie. This will help shock the audience when we add the thriller/horror elements. We have done some research on some teen movies to help us in deciding how to begin our movie as realistic as possible.

We first looked at mean girls

The first characters we see in this clip is a point of view shot of two parents. Parents are almost always in teen movies as parents or carers are always main characters in any teenagers life. This therefor adds to the realism of the film. The high key lighting creates a happy upbeat mood. Professional film productions often build this happy, cheery mood in order for it to be more effective when the mood falls and becomes dismal and negative. I think this will be particularly effective in our film as we are hoping to switch from a happy teen genre to a more serious genre of a thriller. The music in this clip is very modern. This helps the audience establish the modern take on this film and shows that the film will be about teenagers. This clip is mainly set in a school. This helps add to the realism of the film as this is where most of the drama in a teenagers life occurs. This is where we intend on setting our opening sequence. The use of mobile phones, ipods and school bags help the audience in establish that the movie will be a teen movie. The use of slang also helps the audience realize this.

Amy :]