Genre and Convention

Teen films is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, these are also known as sub genres, such as coming of ages, romance rebellion and conflict with parents.

Teens had only been first introduced in the 1950s the post war meant that a lot of "teenagers" had disposable income, this meant that they could be used as a market category and would be sold different music and fashion. This had led to the start of teen films, Rebel Without a Cause had been one of the first movie to be from a teenager perspective, it played of many of the stereotypes of teens and had contained a lot of common sub genres such as romance and conflict with parents.

The trailer shows both of the common sub genres and for the audience at the time it could of been highly entertaining.

Mainly teen films are set in the same general locations. For example within a home the main rooms will most likely be the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, although sometimes there may be the occasional living room. Other popular locations would be class rooms in school, a park or cinema if they're doing sports or hanging out and quite recently in teen films alley ways or on a block of flats is a common location.

Above is a picture of kidulthood, a more up to date popular teen film, as you can see all the characters are just relaxing on a wall probably in their local area.

As well as location, the characters found in teen films are usually based on strong stereotypes.