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Within our film we employed numerous ways in which to portray, develop and challenge teen drama conventions. The main ways we used to contribute towards showing the conventions are shown below in the storyboard of our actual film.

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Our film opening sequences has an ident of our production company and Distribution company. Our  production company is called picker mix production and  our film will be distributed by Hanway films.  As you can see from the ident , we have used stop motion with  different letters that spells picker mix production. We have used stop motion rather than animation for the ident to suggests that we are independent film producing company and we produce low budget films. This develops the convention as  it is a creative way of showing  our ident.

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In the fourth picture in the frame illustrates our film title, ‘Drug teen’. Firstly, the fading in effect is mostly used, when revealing the title of the film. This is done so that there is a smooth transition between the frame and the text. Moreover, we spent some time researching on different teen film on what font style to use. After inspecting film such as The Perk Of The Wall Flower and Juno, we decided to use sans serif as a title font. We chose sans serif because it looks modern and clean, therefore it will appeal to young audience. The font of ‘Drug teen ‘is exactly how we wanted it to look. It is bold, capital and shadow of purple. This immediately stands out  and the ‘purple shadow’ signifies that this movie is aimed at both male and female as during research we found that both genders like the colour purple. However, the credits are not bold and it the colour of the font is white. We have chosen white because white colour is associated with white chalk which will make the audience think of school. In conclusion, the title and credit develop the convention of the teen drama.

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Our entire scene is shot at two different locations and they are in school and at a skate park. Establishing shot is intended to reveal location and settings. In establishing shot, we can see an empty skate park with lots of ramps. The empty park implies that the protagonist is lonely, who has less friends to hang around with. This helps to give audience a sense of what type of character he is and what his interests are. He is interested in rollerblading. We chose to include this because from the research we gathered, we found that teenagers are interested or already know how to rollerblade. Furthermore, there is a movie called Airborne, which is an American movie, it is about rollerblading and was released in 1993. This develops the convention as most teen films begins with the protagonist  in school or house setting.
The second location we shot is in school. It can be seen with the long corridor. Observing the location, we can figure out that the protagonist is a student. This follows the convention because teen spend most of the time in school. Furthermore, from researching teen movies, we have found that most teen drama are located in school because it is where they face problems. For example, The Perks of being A Wallflower set in high school is set at high school because it would appeal to the teenagers, therefore they will go and watch the movie.

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We have used few editing techniques in which to show teen drama conventions and tried to use continuity editing. If we glance at a picture, we can see that we have used 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and cross cutting. 180 degree is used by all the genre because it does not confuse the audience when viewing the movie/clip. Additionally, we have also used cross cutting and it can be seen when the antagonist walks in the stake park, this signifies that the two different sequence are happening at the time, which helps to create suspense and hooks the reader what's going to happen between them. From analysing other films, we have found that they have a clip hanger so that audience keeps on watching the movie. If we glimpse at the picture, at the end of the opening sequence we can see that we have used aerial shot to show the antagonist passing the drug and the opening sequences ends. This helps to grab the attention and makes them to watch more. However, we have included flashbacks and it  can be seen when the fade out transition takes place. However, the teen movies such as The Perk of the Wallflower has prolepsis of the future. We have broken the form of the teen drama convention because we wanted to challenge convention and see the outcome on how it would look.

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Non diegetic music of keyboard and drum beat is played over the opening sequence. It creates the mood and atmosphere of sadness which perfectly complements the opening sequence, as it helps to emphasize the feelings of sorrow shown by the close of protagonist's facial expression. Moreover, this film follows the convention of teen drama because it has a voice over, which is normally heard in teen movies to narrate the movie further and tell audience what is about to happen.

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If we view the pictures below. We have used different shot types to reveal the characters. When revealing the antagonist, we used a tilt movement from the feet to all the up to the head to reveal the main character. This is so that it builds suspense and makes the audience really want to know who the main character is. We decided to use long shot when the antagonist is revealed because long shot exhibits the surrounding and illustrate that he is at the park and heading towards the protagonist. When he is introduced, we have used cross cutting to suggest that he is going to have bad influence on him. We follow the convention because in teen drama the protagonist is introduced first. This is because he is the main focus of the film so audience know he is a protagonist. Two shot to reveal girlfriend and the contrast of how happy he was with her. We have chosen the break up scene/ cheating because we found that in our research that the target audience want to see relationship in the opening sequence because most teenage movie has that. For example, Europe trip starts with a girl dumping her boyfriend, this is known as cliff hanger and makes audience want to watch it more.

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If we look at the pictures below, we can see our characters are wearing different costumes. For example, protagonist is wearing a black hoody, a check shirt and pair of jeans. We have challenged the convention because dark clothes are normally worn by antagonist to suggest evilness. However, black jacket is a mysterious colour associated with fear and the unknown. This helps to emphasize that he is an outcast. Furthermore, girl character is also wearing dark clothing, which also breaks the convention because the covenant girl are normally dressed in short revealing clothing and are very feminine. Furthermore, teen drama are played by a female leading character but we have chosen to cast a male actor for the main character because we are an independent  company, therefore we can target a niche market by appealing to small segment of people and being independent means we don't have to make mainstream movies. Overall, the costume appeals to the demographic because we have chosen costume that teen would wear so that it can relate to them. Moreover, the props we have used are a school bag and roller blade. Using school bag signifies he is a student and creates realism to the scene, making him look like a school student. Moreover, we have only  used drugs as a prop because most gritty teenage drama such as kidulthood and elephant  are clearly seen in the film. Using  props such as school bag follows the convention because this is the most common  props used by teen films.

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Genre and how opening sequences suggests it

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Genre and how opening sequences suggests it

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There are various ways that audience know it is a teen drama. The first thing that hints it is the teen drama is when there are flashbacks of protagonist remembering his ex-girlfriend. This clearly demonstrates that the genre of the film is a teen drama because teen drama usually has normal guy liking a popular girl. Secondly, costume worn by the characters signifies that it is aimed at teenagers because teenagers wears costume such as hoody and jeans. Also, the casting gives away it is the teen drama because we have casted characters who are around 17-19, this will relate to them and will make teenagers watch this film because it creates realism to the film. I also believe that the location such as school and Skate Park plays vital role because it is where teenager spend their time. The story progresses with antagonist handing the drug to the protagonist which raises the questions in the audience’s mind. Will he take the drug? This portrays the genre of the film as drama because its based on reality that teenager has to go through.

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The story sets up with introduction of the protagonist by using voiceover, this allows audience to know little bit about James. This follows the convention of the teen opening genre because The Perks Of Wallflower starts with voiceover which introduces character and how he is going to be his first day of the middle school. We have used the convention because most teen drama starts with the voice over. Then the main character starts rollerblading while having a flashback about the past, this lets the audience know that he has been cheated on by a girl. Finally, the character takes a sit on the ramp and then antagonist approaches him with drugs. We have created cliff-hanger because the opening sequence ends with the high angle of antagonist extending his hands and slowly revealing drugs. This creates suspense and makes the audience curious to watch more.

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Overall, we have used MECS in our media product to use, develop and challenge the forms of media conventions. This is evident by the camera angles, editing, sound and mise-en-scene. Furthermore, it fits the chosen genre of teen drama by the use of casting characters aged between 16-18 because that is what teenagers expects to see in a teen Moreover, we have chosen locations such as school and Skate Park. The locations the convention because majority teen films are filmed at those locations.