Evaluation Question 1

Forms and conventions of teen film openings:

-Titles

-Genre appropriate characters

-Differing social groups

-Specific editing techniques

-Sound relative to teen generation

The sound of which the majority of the teen generation listen to is pop, drum and base and dance. This follows the codes and conventions of a teen drama as it is music relative to the social group and age,a teen drama which focuses on the life a delinquent who is in to drugs and is from an estate block would use music such as grime. While we used club music to portray the lifestyle of the male as he is a character who parties a lot and likes to go to clubs.

The film title sequence:

1. Production company
2. Distribution company
3. Actor 1
4. Actor 2
5. Any further actors
6. Costume designer
7. Music supervisor
8. Edited by
9. Production designer
10. Director of Photography
11. Executive producers
12. Written by
13. Director

The ideas for editing were ideas which were taken from teen dramas of the same genre. Skins is a teen drama which focuses on the same target audience. The setting, mise en scene and social groups within the it are stereotypical and expected of that genre.