THE BLING RING

The Bling Ring had a conventional sort of opening apart from some non conventional things that you would see in teen films. For the title sequence we had a photomontage of different things like; Facebook, the news, shots of shoes, jewellery, the key characters etc. From this we can already tell what kind of movie we will see. You also get the idea thatthis is a teenage film because of thw setting, which is in a high school, and the kind of music that they play, which is modern and what teenagers listen to.

The film followed the conventional terms of a teenage film by the location, tyoe of characters, sound area of the film, story line and the binary opposition that you usually see in a teenage movie. The location was in a school like i said before and so we immediately that this is about something to do with school and the teenagers inside.
 

The characters of a teen film are usually popular, beautifuly people and then you have different stereotypical groups. In this film you do have the beautiful, rich people but there isn't a very high school kind of movie but more about teenagers that do ilegal things. The music goes with the idea of a teenage movie because you hear a lot of modern music that teenagers listen to.

The story fits in with the idea of a teen movie because the story line to Bling Ring is teens that do drugs, parties and going to clubs. These teenagers do what normal teenagers do and a little bit more because of all the drugs they do as well as steal.

There arE teenage binary oppositions that you can associate with different teen movies that you see in The Bling Ring.

TEEN VS AUTHORITY

 

RICH VS POOR

 

Conventions - The Bling Ring

In class today we watched a the film The Bling Ring,which is a biographic teen movie based on a crime spree which a group of teens committed in LA, on Lindsay Lohan,Paris Hilton,Orlando Bloom and others.The films opening went against the conventions of a teen film, this is because at the beginning of The Bling Ring, the viewer is shown a clip from later on in the film,which then changes to a montage of the clip,pictures of shoes and videos of celebrities.I think this made it particularly more interesting because the viewer immediately becomes hooked.

The Movie focuses on three things which are involved in a lot of teen films,money,drugs and fame.The teens in the film are driven by keeping up with the latest fashion which is shown by the celebrities.The characters were even influenced to take drugs as some celebrities have been arrested for like Lindsay Lohan,there is a shot of her being arrested in the montage.There are not a lot of the popular teen film stereotypes used in this film, this may be because it is a biography,however characters like Rebecca could be described as similar to the popular girl in school which all the other girls want to be friends with;the character Marc could be perceived to be the one with no who always seeks acceptance.

Reflection Post

I believe I have been putting a lot of effort into my Media course work . I have been blogging every week and have kept up to date with my blogging checklist and posted work  before its deadline.
I have always contributed with group blog posts and have a strong individual voice when analysing my work. I have embedded and print screened videos, trailers and images on to my blog related to the work given for evidence and analysis.However I believe I should used more variety of technology such as slide show or photo shops.

Overall I think  my group and I have progressed a lot .

Reflecton Post

I think that my group and I have been up to date with our posts that we have to put up as well as the extra posts that we have been told to do. For myself I think I should add more posts about what we are going to do for our teen opening and put up ideas for what we can do. 

We are entirely up to date with the checklist for our blogs and we are showing clear progression on our blogs because we are now starting to order our blogs in logical order so people who view our blog would be able to understand how our journey is happening. 

Everyone in our group has been able to contribute in all our posts as well be able to blog on their own and get their own ideas. I feel that my voice is being heard and all ideas are being accounted for. I think we all need to do extra blogs about teen movie ideas that we can base our teen opening on. 

Apart from that everything is good and underway.

Reflection blog

Apart from the vimeo videos, I am up to date with the blog posts, although I have only stuck to the mandatory number of blogs. I would like to upload some storyboard sketches, and some other ideas I have for the teen film. I am also going to upload more reviews of films that I watch, even if they are not teen films just so that I have something to compare them with. I am happy with the different medias that I have used but would like to include different styles like gifs, vlogs and photo bucket. I don't think that my voice comes through much, but I would like to change that by doing the things that I stated above.

Not another teen movie stereotypes

The popular ‘attractive’ , ‘vain’ cheerleaders  from  High School  ,followed by Priscilla ,walk with confidence around the school as they run the school and are seen to be more important than everybody else  ; they have much more superiority than all the other groups in the school . This is shown immediately through mise en scene and gestures. The three popular girls are stereotypically seen as ‘bimbos’ and ‘perfect’ as they are all slim ,with straight long hair wearing tightly coloured clothes to show off their figure to grab males attention. They are also shown wearing very girly and glamorous clothing; pink belly tops that shows a lot of skin and high heels .Priscilla being the leader of the group is shown wearing a pink vest top with pink fluff, where as her followers are wearing slightly more covered clothing , as if they were trapped and controlled at by her at all times, which may cause them to feel uncomfortable in situations and not equal with others.

STORY LINES, OPENINGS AND BINARY OPPOSITIONS

Binary Oppositions are two different ways/styles against each other which help create a story line in a film. In Teen films (most films) you are able to see these binary oppositions in the opening. There is a whole range of binary oppositions that relate to teen movies such as typical ones like authority vs teenagers etc. The binary oppositions are there to set an atmosphere about what the movie entails.

Here are a few movies which show binary oppositions:

Romeo and Juliet:

This movie has binary oppositions that you can notice straight awat such as the two families against each other; Montague vs Capulet. we see this is the mise en scene. Montagues have a yellow car and the Capulets have blue one. 

The cars are two distinct colours to show the huge differences between the households. The number plate also has the beginning letters of the family names (Cap/Mon). 

Other binary oppositions that Romeo and Juliet have are:

• Casual vs Sophisticated (the way they're dressed)
• Religious Iconology vs Secular
• Cow Boy vs Punk
• Comedic vs Serious
• Brave and Scared

These are all shown just in the beginning opening of the film which help anticipate about what the movie might be about.