Clueless
Clueless includes:
- Teenage american 'girly girl' characters where their life is being explained - Upbeat non-diegetic music which suggests fun and carefree as the music is 'We're the kids in America' which is a well known pop song
- Cars which show a popular and rich character
- Hobbies for teenagers, such as; shopping
- Voice over which introduces the characters which is bitchy and sarcastic and suggests the power over her friends and dad
- Fashion and how teenagers worry about how they look
- Big and posh house
- Money orientated
- Focuses on the popular girl who has the most power within the school and over her friends
- Parties
- Titles are in bright colours and in the style of cartoon which suggests a target audience of teenagers
- Involves layered sounds; cars, laughing and music
- High-key lighting to show positivity and fun
- Title sequence isn't chronolgoical which suggests teenagers have busy lives
Easy A
Easy A includes;
- voice over talking about herself
- intoduces the favourite teacher which gages his personality through his speech with the students
- The language used represents the target audience of teenagers
- Using high-key lighting which siggests its a comedy as well as a teenage angst
- Uses low-key lighting in the flash backs of best friend and parents which suggests the difference between age groups (High-key for teenagers and Low-key for adults)
- The setting is within a choas high school which the camera tracks around the high school which suggests the film about teenagers
- Located in California -as well as the high school, it has the settings of the shopping mall and her bedroom
- The titles are placed on the floor, in trees, on signs for shops, lockers, on windows and on the walls with the titles placed naturally into the film with them lasting around 3-4 seconds so they are readable (around 15 titles)
-Shoes are tied up in the tree which represents bullies at schools which is streotypical for teenagers
- Papers fall out of books which suggests education
- Prop of a cup of coffee is used which is typical for early in the morning
- Bags are used as they are at high school which is sterotypical for a teenager to be carrying a bag
- Different fonts are used
Footloose
Footloose includes:
- Long shots are used of the teenagers dancing
- Close up shots are used of different feet dancing which suggests it is a dancing and performing film
- Teenage characters
- Setting of a party which is significant to teenagers
- Tracking is used of the girls dancing
- Empty red cups all over the floor which suggests the iconography is that they are old enough drink and that they don't tidy up after themselves
- All enjoying themselves and having fun
- The setting is as if the world has been created for the teenagers
- Partying which is sterotypical for teenagers as dancing, drinking, singing and have fun suggest teenagers are care free and happy
- Represents a social group of young adults of both genders
- The social groups are mixed race which suggest a cultural representation
- No disabilities
- No children
- No older age group
- Titles are Serif in neon lights which are joined up in the style of hand writing
- Connotation of the opening and title scene connotes shows, partying, dancing and singing
- The setting is also a stage as on the close up of the feet, the floor is moving when they are dancing
- Also the setting is outside
- The music is loud and upbeat which connotes partying and dancing
- Diegetic sound is used of them singing along
- Diegetic sound when the car crash happens
- The sound is layered, non-diegetic sound of the music, diegetic sound of them singing along, feet dancing on the stage, teengers talking in the car and the sound effects of the car crash
- Titles/Credits are in the same style, colour and size The Opening scene starts when the teenagers get into the car and the music starts. However the opening scene could also start when the teenagers have a car crash.
East to East
East to East includes;
- Up beat, loud non-diegetic music
- The colour white is used for the titles/credits
- The setting focuses on a relgious parade
- Teenagers are sneaking about and causing trouble which is stereotypical of teenagers
- Setting of a community celebration which suggests the community are close
- British
- Family orientated which suggests the families are close not only as a family but with other families too
- The film also suggests social realism therefore connotes real people who are working class and ordinary
- Children
- Different generations, children, teenagers, adults and the older generation
- Located in Manchester
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