The Bling Ring

Today we watched a film called 'The Bling Ring' it is a teen film and includes conventions which you will find in a teen movie. This film is about a group of teenagers who look up to well known celebrities such as lindsey lohan, paris hilton etc. and they basically want there lifestyle, with all the designer clothing, jewels/accessories, media attention the a lot. This group ends up robbing these celebrities homes and takes approximately $300,0000 worth.

The opening of this film had many teen conventions which made it very conventional. It had a montage title sequence which included; Facebook, shots of shoes, jewels, key characters and the news. The beginning also included a flash forward which my many films do therefore for this being at the beginning we can say it's foreshadowing the events that may occur later in the film. This opening plotted the storyline for the film as due to the montage title sequence we could suggest that it was going to be about girls, celebrities, designer clothing 'The Fab Life'

The music selected for the opening was aimed for the adolescent age group as it was face pace, I could suggest it was a pop genre.

The film did follow conventions in terms of location, characters, sound, storyline and binary oppositions. For the location it was mostly set in a club, school, kitchen and bedroom. In the teenage life these are the main areas you'll find them at a young age, in the home teenagers tend to spend most of there time in their bedrooms doing what they have to do like on social networking sites, homework, listening to music etc. and would come down to get something to eat in the kitchen and back into their bedroom you'll hardly find them downstairs in the living room. Teens also consists of school and education as they can't drop out until the age of 16 so they can relate to issues in school issues in films.

In terms of the characters there were a range of rich and the beautiful stereotype which does occur in reality for a teenager.  Teenagers have the highest percentage of being relative deprived when they want certain things like designer clothes to fit in. The music was mostly hip hop and RnB these 2 genres are mainly aimed for adolescents.

The storyline was about drugs, parties, clubs and being in a gang. These event mainly happen from the ages of 16-20+ this age group are mostly going to be involved with these things as they are still learning about themselves and what they enjoy in contrast to what they don't this then leads into the binary oppositions which are;

• Teens vs. authority (parents/law)

• Good vs. bad

• Right vs. wrong