Ideas for teen film opening

As we deciding what to do for our teen film opening, I watched a few teen movies of different genres to help decide what our sub genre could be and to find inspiration from these.

First of all, a teen horror film that was I watched was Final Destination.

Mise-en-scene

Location: 
 - A lot of it is filmed when they are traveling and arriving, for example, on the plain & in the car.
- At places in the home, eg bathroom and bedrooms
- In the forest (uncommon)
- In the school
- In a church (uncommon)

Costume:
They all wore what typical clothing/clothing that is expected and suited to characters in teen movies. For example, the children were all wearing t-shirts however the adult was wearing a button-up, suggesting that he is older and wiser.

Sound
- Use of parallel sound eg. lots of tense and suspenseful music at vital moments

Camera
- The frequent use of spinning the camera around to show distortion and disorientation
- Extreme close-ups/close-ups commonly used to show facial expressions


Editing
Use of match-cuts


An opposite sub-genre of a teen film I watched was teen comedy. This film was called Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging.

Mise-en-scene
Location:

The film is very typical, for a teen movie, in the location its shot in. For example,

- In school
- In people's houses and the majority of it is in the bedroom
- At hang out spots, like a teenagers work place or a party

The movie only deviated from these locations at the end of the movie, when they went to the beach. But even then, that can still be considered as a hang out spot.

Costume
The costume was also very typical. With the popular girl wearing revealing outfits; showing her clevage and being blonde, tall, skinny and pretty. However, the main character, who is considered a bit of a nerd, sticks to baggy tops and jeans, and is short with brown hair. Stereotypes seem to clearly be portrayed in teen comedies rather than teen horrors, where they didn't really make it clear the difference in characters and status etc.

Sound
- Parallel sound, sad music played when the mood of the movie was sad & happy music played when the characters were happy
- Contrapuntal sound, where happy music played when the characters were sad and vice versa
- Voice overs were often used aswell

Camera
The shots were mainly medium close ups

Editing
Use of match cuts but for a completely different reason to the use of match cuts in the teen horrors.