Evaluation 1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Within my film 'Love Triangle' I used as many teenage angst conventions as possible. Shot one is a high angle mid angle shot of the title of our film, 'Love Triangle', our title is in pink and purple colours as these are stereotypical favourite colours of a teenage girl. The font of the title is serif curly style, which connotes teenage writing with all the curls and joining up the letters. My film was called 'Love Triangle' because Yasmin and Blake are together and are known as the 'popular' couple, however, Charlotte likes Blake and Yasmin hates Charlotte, therefore this creates a triangle between the three of them. Putting the word 'Love' into the title will attract a  mass audience of female as teenage girls like romantic films.The title was placed in the bottom left corner, similar to the teenage angst 'Dear John', the title is simply added into the sea of the film, we did a similar style. We added it into the scene to make it look natural.

Shot two is the costume of Charlotte, she is wearing her pjs which is stereotypical of a teenage girl, these connotes that it is the morning and she is getting out of bed. The Disney characters of her pj top can represent her age group, which can represent her as still being immature as she is only 15.Charlotte's bedroom showing the purple. pink and green girly duvet connotes a teenage bedroom with the mise-en-scene of perfumes and sprays represents Charlotte's happy and bubbly personality.This is stereotypical for teenage angst film to do a bedroom scene of the teenager waking up which is normally for school, such as in Wildchild, the very first scene is Poppy in bed waking up and getting up as she realises she slept through her alarm and is now late. This shot also suggest the setting of Charlotte's bedroom showing the purple. pink and green girly duvet which connotes a teenage bedroom. The mise-en-scene of perfumes and sprays represents Charlotte's personality and how she cares about how she smells.

Shot three presents the font, throughout my film 'Love Triangle', each credit that was included used a different style, colour and size of font. The fonts were used different depending on the scene of filming it was being put into. This was because the font style and colour had to look suitable on top of the filming to ensure the font was naturally in the filming and not just added in to look like another layer. This is stereotypical of a teenage angst films such as; Easy A edits their credits and titles in within the scene to make them look naturally involved, this is what I was suggesting with my titles/credits. The colours were for each credit were bring colours that suggest teenagers, such as, blues, pinks, purple and green which represent teenage colours.

Shot four represents the camera work used props that were used. Shot four presents a close up of the prop used of a glass with orange juice being poured into it, this is a stereotypical breakfast drink for teenagers. The shot also presents a title that was added 'Music by' in the colour blue to represent a happy and calm mood.This is stereotypical for a teenage angst film, such as Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Georgia, gets up for school and there is a scene after she is ready in the kitchen at the table eating her breakfast as its stereotypically known that teenagers eat breakfast before going to school.

Shot five shows the genre of 'Teenage Angst' and how my film 'Love Triangle' suggest the genre. Shot five, shows Charlotte doing her hair ready for school, which is stereotypical of a teenage girl, the convention of teenage angst of using teenage characters is also within in this shot of Charlotte being 15. This is stereotypical of a teenage angst as the audience are able to relate to it. This stereotypically shows that teenagers care about the way the look and take pride in what they look like, therefore this suggest the genre is Teenage Angst.Such as; in Mean girls the girls known as 'the Plastics' are constantly worried about how they look, they take time and pride of how they look and to make sure they are following the 'codes' of fashion throughout the week. These worries are stereotypically linked with teenagers as most teenagers worry about keeping up to date with the fashion and spend their time to look their best.

Shot six presents how the characters are introduced in my film and the editing. The characters are introduced within my film, but using a scribble circle, this directly points out the character clearly and makes it effective alongside with Charlotte's voice over. The scribble circle is stereotypical of a teenage girl as girls scribble round the books and paper, the colour blue was used to indicate which best friend was who as blue suggests calm and happy which for a teenage girl its stereotypical for their best friends to make them happy. The colour pink was used to circle Blake, as its a girly girl and used is common colour used for flirty personalities, therefore, this suggests the crush Charlotte has on Blake. The edited the lighting within this scene, to make the lighting more high-key to suggest a positive atmosphere that Charlotte has with her best friends. The scene after this, when Yasmin is introduced and within the flashback with Yasmin, the lighting was edited to make it low-key which suggests a negative atmosphere and connotes the unfriendly relationship between Yasmin and Charlotte.

Shot seven represents the special effects used within my film, this shot presents the 'blur' transition used on a close up of Charlotte's face. This special effect was used to connote to the audience that it is a flash back, this transition connotes the feeling of going back in time and with it after a close up of Charlotte suggests that Charlotte is thinking about it.This is used stereotypically in teenage angst genre, such as; mean girls Regina says she liked Kady's bracelet at the start of the film, later on in the film, Regina says to a girl she likes her skirt and then turns round to Kady and says its the worst skirt shes ever seen. A flashback is used of Regina saying to Kady she likes her bracelet, the flashback is used to suggest to the audience, that Regina didn't actually like her bracelet, therefore, it suggests Regina's personality but also Cady's and Regina's friendship.

Shot eight is the setting of Charlotte's school, where she feels most uncomfortable having to see Yasmin and Blake together. The Shot shows the audience just after Yasmin's group which aren't in a uniform, this shot shows Charlotte in uniform, therefore, this connotes she is younger than the 'popular' group and that she has less power than them. Although, in most teenage angst films, they are all wearing uniform, such as; Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, in the film it is obvious who is the 'popular' girl and who holds the power. To develop this, we used the same socialising groups of popular and least popular, but to develop from the original teenage angst films, we put the popular group in no uniform and there own style of clothes to suggest their power.

Shot nine is a close up of Charlotte after the flashback was shown. This shot is after the title sequence and half way through the opening scene, the title sequence suggest how happy Charlotte is when she's at home and that she stereotypically cares how she looks. At the start of the opening scene, it also suggest how Charlotte is happy and has a lively personality when with her friends. However, half way through the opening scene, Yasmin is introduced who is known as the 'popular' girl and is with the guy that Charlotte likes, a flashback is used to suggest the relationship between Charlotte and Yasmin which is how the story is set up and easily understandable.This is similar to the film 16 Wishes, Abby is the least popular girl and is invisible to everyone when Kristia is the popular girl. Everyone copies and wants to be Krista's friend, and Abby is pushed to side invisible and close ups are used throughout the film to suggest this to the audience and to stereotypically let the audience connect to Abby.