Representation

   When thinking about my project, I had an idea in. mind about what I wanted to do. I also had an idea of representation that I wanted to make sure that I included in my project. This group that I wanted to represent is teenagers. I wanted to represent teenagers because whenever I see the media's perspective on teenagers, it is different from my perspective. I feel like this project is an opportunity to change the stereotypes by redefining what teenagers are.

   When I think of how the media portrays teens, I think of two films. Project X and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  Project X is a mock-documentary that follows 3 teens who throw a party at one of their parent's house. The party escalates and turns into a riot, and this film is focused around teens. It shows that teens are rebellious, don't follow any rules, and are wild. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a film that follows a teen, Ferris Bueller, throughout his day skipping school. He dupes everybody just so he can skip a day of school. This reinforces the stereotype that teens are rebellious liars that skip school.

   I do not feel that this standard of representation against teenagers is fair. It is a stereotype based off of a few bad kids, but realistically, most of the kids that I've experienced being around are nothing like the movies. I believe that the way teenagers are represented create a bad stigma about kids, that gets stuck in the audiences mind, helping reinforce the stereotypes. I would try and show that teenagers do enjoy having fun, but I would challenge the recklessness and complete disregard for rules. Many of the people I know work extremely hard to get by in school, and follow every rule and aren't like the rebellious teens in the films.

Action Genre

1. Action
2. Some of the common conventions of the action genre include a various set of challenges that must be solved through extensive violence or fighting, life threatening situations, frantic chases and physical fights.
3. Some of the production techniques of action films are editing techniques such as: editing cuts on the frame of impact (during fight scenes), adding filters to sound effects, showing action and reaction (helps audience build anticipation for what is about to happen), and speeding frames up to make action seem faster (speed ramping).
4. Baby Driver- This excerpt is the opening scene to the film Baby Driver. In this excerpt, there are examples of violence, chase scenes, and some of the editing techniques, including speed ramping. These elements are all incorporated together to create the realistic envoriment that is common in action films.
5. Die Hard- This excerpt shows all of the elements of the action films. It shows the cuts between the actin/ reaction, speed ramping during frantic scenes, violence and fighting, and a set of challenges that needs violence to be solved.
6. Other example of action films include: Mad Max, Kill Bill, The Avengers, Taken, Rambo.