Transport For Teen Opening

Transport in teen films

Teen films generally use modes of transport to present a different stereotype. For example, the jock will arrive in a truck, the nerd or brainy kid arriving in a family car, the princess or popular girl being driven in a luxury car, the criminal having to walk on their own and many more. This is further explained in the blog about modes of transport within The Breakfast Club. Click Here to find out more. These modes of transport are typical for American teen films, however, I will be creating a british teen film and for the opening there will be different ways teens get to school, due to the different environment and setting.

For the teen film I create, there is a wide variety of transport I can use for the opening to represent a particular character. By having students arrive to school in different types of transport, the audience will be able to understand a characters particular role and personality. It also tells us what type of student they may be in the schools social hierarchy. 

Below are some ways in which students may decide to travel to college: 

The Bus
This is the most popular mode of transport amongst teens in due to how practical it is and can represent the average teens in a school, not really a particular social group. As the majority of teens use this option, this makes it the most convenient and easiest to use.






The train/tube
This is the second most popular mode of transport amongst teens. This mode of transport is for those who live slightly further away, possibly in wealthier areas. 






Walking
This is for students who not only live near to school but tend to be the lonely unpopular teen within the school's social hierarchy. In some cases, teens who walk may be accompanied by friends but the general view is that those who walk have the least entertaining and loneliest journeys. 




Bike
For those who enjoy riding alone, may also be considered as the unpopular ones with no friends. Bikers could live the same distance as those who take the bus which is why this mode of transport can also be associated with the cool kids, who are considered as rebels since they don't travel by the common way, which is by bus.






Car
Despite being very rare, whether it's a parents car or a taxi, this is a mode of transport that is often associated with teens who come from a wealthier background. To be dropped every morning to school requires gas money and road taxes, so even if the car isn't the latest, this still isn't the cheapest option, which is why it's mainly associated with wealthier children.

Transport For Teen Openings

There are a variety of transport I can use when it comes to my teen film. For example ; Bus, Car (Parents Car), Train, Skateboard, Tube, Scooter and by Foot. Using different types of transport can establish the characters and tell the audience their position and role within the film. For example sterotypically the rich popular girls always arrives in the newest car to show off her wealth while everyone admires. Whereas you have 'The Jock' arrives in a truck with his team mates. The truck represents masculinity sportsman ship. 'The nerd' will usually arrives with their parents as they need parent consultation and encouragement. However due to the fact i will be doing a british based teen films we will not arrive in cars as we are not able to drive however we could use our parents to drive us. 

  

Travelling and Arriving Storyboard

Travelling and Arriving Storyboard: Skateboarder 

For this activity we done a storyboard on how we would film a character leaving and travelling to a destination for example going to school or meeting friends. We decided to do a stereotypical skater border that shows up late for class in the morning. 

Why Are Titles Placed In The Intro In The Order?

Title Sequence order

Titles are placed in the intro of films revealing the most important people first such as the distributor, the production company, producer, director, who stars in the movie, the films title, featured actors, who the casting was by, who did the music and the production designer.

• Distributor: The studio distributes the film which appears at the beginning such as Walt Disney. The distributors name is displayed in the beginning because of its contribution to the film. They finance the film.
   
• Production company: Having the production company within the title credits are important because they produce the film. The production company assists with the budget, casting and choosing a director.
   
• Director: The director being included within the film credits is also crucial, George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not putting the directors name in the opening credits. This shows how important the director is. Not only does the diector make the film what it is but it also pull the fans.
   
• Actors: The actors who star in the movie are shown as they attract their fans to watch the film. Aswell as attracttheir fans, if it wasnt for them the movie wont be it is. The actors make it the film it is and are credited for their contribution. 

• Film Title: Finally the title is a key element for the title sequence. The title can give us an insight on the film, era and narrative by its font background image and style.

Representations Of Stereotypes

Stereotype: A person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they the belong.

High Schools and College  are renowned  creating multiple stereotypes in the society that it has. The way you look, dress and act defines who you are and where you fit in to the social pyramid that it creates. Not Another Teen Movie (2001) uses the stereotypes in a obvious way by using other teens films and making it their own, this is called intertextuality. Intertextuality is the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other. 

Throughout Not Another Teen Movie uses different stereotype from different films  such as 10 Things i hate about you, American Beauty, American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, Cruel Intentions, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jawbreaker. The Script writers do this by making out that there isn't any "clicks" in high school but make it obvious by the way they are dressed and grouped with. 

The Typical Stereotypes in high school

The Jocks: These are the sporty guys that are very arrogant and feel that they are the greatest looking guys in school and no other guy can compete with them. They usually wear baggy baseball jackets. 

The Nerds: They are regarded as the unpopulars due to their advance knowledge, (the majority of the school usually has average or below average grades), they are never invited to parties and always dress in a tacky formal way. The Nerds are also prone to being bullied by Jocks and being used by the dumb blondes. 

The Dumb Blondes: As beautiful as they might be, the blondes usually have nothing amazing going on upstairs. They usually rely on their looks and the way they dress to get the guys and sometimes girls attention. If they're not book smart they're smart enough to know how to manipulate every guy in doing what they want.  

Social Network 2010

The social network is a teen film that presents the stereotype in a different way to Not Another Teen Film. The Jocks are still cocky and arrogant but they're actually well educated and have ideas with what they want to do in life, unlike not another teen film they have no ambition just focusing on how many girls they could have sex with. The nerd is the protagonist and is seen as a legend for his knowledge, when you think of an nerd you think they have massive glasses and no social skills but the social network goes against the characteristics of a nerd and turned him into a person everyone to be then to a arrogant jock but without doing sports. 

  

Representation Of Stereotypes

Teenage Stereotypes in film 

What does stereotype mean?

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Stereotypes in movies are used to create characters we are most likely to relate to. For example in Not Another Teen Movie the story develops as the characters personalities are exposed. This allows the director to create a story based on the stereotypical characteristics; the sporty jock, the socially awkward geeks and the dumb rich blonde chick.The movie has many references taken from other typical teens movies such as;Ferris Bueller's day off, Brick and Mean girls. 

The movie uses a lot of intertextuality to humour its audience it does this by using so many of the stereotypes and imports them into one movie that it becomes comedy. It also allows the audience to relate to each character. Or allows the audience to pick a character that they like the most. 

By having different personality in one movie is allows the writers and directors to branch out the story.This means if the writers wanted to explore the theme of bullying in a high school the Bully will be shown the most. Another example is if romance was used as a theme the director would show more of the couples in the movie.

Representation Of Stereotypes

A stereotype is used to categorise a group of people. People don't understand that type of person so they put them in classifications thinking that everyone who is that needs to be like that, or anyone who acts like their classifications is one.

A good example of a movie which contains a variety of stereotypes is 'Not Another Teen Movie' directed by Joel Gallan. The purpose of this movie is to parody other Hollywood teen movies that have met great box office results. These stereotypes consist of the Nerd that is generally intelligent, lacks power and may wear glasses, the jock who wears a varsity jacket and is quite dominant, the popular girl that every other girl wishes to be like and the cheerleader who is a dumb blonde rich LA girl. These stereotypes stem from movies such as American Beauty, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jawbreaker and The Breakfast Club including many more which 'Not Another Teen Movie' decided to include.

The intertextuality humours the audience as it over exaggerates and mimics the way their favourite teen movies represent teens within society.