Creation Of Our Own Stereotypes

During this lesson we have learnt about stereotypes in teen films. So we have decided to create some of our own stereotypes

Here is Aydarus, acting out a stereotypical view of a black youth. We done this by covering his face so that no one can recognise him if he commits a crime and putting the hoodie over him, by dressing him in all black so that when he commits a crime at night he can easily run away and hide. Overall the gun is the main prop in this picture as it shows how young black boys are stereotyped as criminals

Jazzel, is acting out a stereotypical view of a black girl listening/dancing to RnB. Black people are stereotyped to have good rhythm and are excellent dancing, usually we will take this as a positive aspect, but today we had an open debate if its a good thing or if its really racism, we could classify this as racism as your giving a group or people a certain characteristic and saying they are physically good at something can suggest that they aren't intellectually as this is also binary opposition. We finally concluded the debate by puttng it down to how the individual perceives it.

Nia, is acting out a stereotypical view of a dumb blonde girl (the mise en scene doesn't match up with the picture and this is because there was a limited amount of props to use). So instead we improvised to try and act this out by using the dictionary but also by Nia holding the dictionary upside down. The use of having dictionary instead of an actual book shows how standard she is intellectually that she is looking up new words but the fact she's holding it up the wrong way round also shows that she isn't intellectually smart. Dumb blonde girls are very popular in teen movies as there is always that one who knows everyone but hardly knows anything.