In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Convention 1:
Lead protagonist has a secret talent
In a lot of teen films the lead

protagonist who is often a character who usually keep to themselves; has a secret talent that their exceptionally good at times but shy away from showing these talents due to embarrassment, privacy concerns or they believe they will be shunned for such a talent.

We developed this convention by our lead protagonist Nicolla, the Loner having a secret talent for playing the piano. She is a character who keeps to herself although she has friends none of them know of her secret talent.

Lorna

Convention 2:

Teen Films are set in a educational environment

Teen films are usually set in a location where a lot of young people gather. For example in a school.

We also set our film in a school to conform to this convention.

Lorna

Convention 3:

Teenagers have fun

Teenagers in teen films often don’t do as they are supposed to, act irresponsible and have fun. In films, they are often shown as an age group that is immune to hardships and if difficult times are given, it is often glamourised or 'Glossed' over.
We developed this convention with one of our characters dancing around the reception while lessons are going on.

Priscilla

Convention 4:
Teenagers and young people get into fights.

Films that are targeted towards a teenage audience are known to be full of rowdy and rebellious teenagers who alienate each other because of their social group.We developed this convention by having the Otaku and the Bully have a short fight sequence to show that people who have opposing beliefs and hobbies create conflict, amongst them.

A film where something similar has happened is in mean girls, there are quite a few fight scenes in the film and in many other teen films. Tosin

Convention 5:

Bright and colourful environments

Teen films are often set in sunny colourful places. The characters also wear bright colours. As seen from this shot from HSM 2.

We went against this convention by filming our opening on a dull grey February day. Although we had

our characters wear bright clothing

to brighten the film up and have the inside of the building a lot more brighter as if school, is a sort of escape from the outside world.

Tosin

Convention 6:

In many teen films we usually find that the geeks of the film tend to suffer and that bad luck seems to follow wherever the geek goes.

This is a stereotypical comical convention for a teen film, which we have utilized in our film.

Stella

Convention 7:

Also, we have discovered that the prop that a geek is most likely to carry around is a book (Companionship). So we have managed to conform to the convention of geeks stereotypically carrying "dull" props such as books.
Stella

Convention 8: Teenage groups and cliques

Teenagers normally like to be in cliques because they feel comfortable to be in group, rather than being alone.

Girl cliques are complex and multilayered and most girls assume a role within the clique. Social positions within the clique are not static, as a girl can lose her position within the hierarchy to another girl. They can move up and down this particular social status.

This picture shows a representation of a girl clique because there all standing together.

Priscilla