Representation In Films

For this task I am going to research the social groups and and then identify how they are represented by analysing three opening scenes.  The social group that I will be analysing will be teenagers. 


Learning Comments

Firstly I have learnt that there is a main trend in all of the films that I watched for representing a social group of teenagers. The main trend is that they seem to have a majority of teenagers and an individual that are represented in two completely opposite ways. The majority of the teenagers are represented as a very stereo typical view. They seem to dislike their parents, go to parties and seem to act with an attitude. this portrays most teenagers in a negative way. However they then use one individual that seems to portray the "perfect teenager". They seem to have their own style and have a good repetition. From this in my opening scene I am going to try and make my social group as positive as possible and not generalise. However I might consider incorporating the individual as they seem to portray teenagers in a better light.

Narrative Structure

For this task I am going to explore how directors and writers engage there audience in the first part of the film. I will explain this using the narrative theory. 





Learning Comments

From this task I have learnt the narrative elements and how I can apply them to my opening scene so that will give it more structure. If it has more structure the audience will be more intrigued into the film and enjoy it more. I will now do a checklist of elements I will add so it will be easier for me to develop:

-Equilibrium
-Character types (most should be included)
-Binary opposites which are shown obviously very different
-Signifiers
-Action codes which relate to the character and can be repeated (perhaps using a prop would be easier)
-Enigma (posing questions and then answering them)