Q1. In what ways does your media product use. develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

As a group we had decided to put together a quick interview between me (the "Host") and one of our films main actress's Rusne who plays Katie (the stereotypical nerd). The interview was used to discuss "How successfully our film followed the key conventions of a teen movie?"; "What are the 'stereotypical characters' used in teen films and who are they in our film?" and finally "What are the conventions of title sequences? And why are they set up in this particular way?".

Our film "Jack", I believe has successfully followed the conventions of a teen movie, we chose to use the four stereotypical characters, who you would find in most, if not all teen films. The most popular conventions that are portrayed in teen films generally are binary oppositions between characters, such as Good vs. Bad, Rich vs. Poor, Popular vs. Outcasts, Pretty vs. Ugly, Love vs. Hate and Rebellion vs. Authority. Our opening scenes set up several of these themes for the rest of the film. For example, the character's Chloe and Aaron (the princess and the jock) seem to have a closer relationship to each other as opposed to Chloe and Jack (the outcast). Which might give an indication to the audience to who is to die first, as typically in horrors, it is always one of the pretty or popular kids who are first to die, for example in Scream, Casey and Steve are the first to die, the typical good looking and strong American Footballer and his pretty blonde girlfriend.

We also tried to stick to the idea of travelling in the first few scenes of the film, which seems to be a common theme in most teen films. The cameras follow them as they make their way into school, college or in our case to meet their friends. We show several modes of transportation, including, walking and public transportation.

As a way for our four characters to communicate throughout the beginning scenes, we show as least one shot of each of them using their mobile phones or social media (such as What's App) to contact one another. This is a realistic and common way for most teens to get in touch with someone fast and is apart of most teenagers daily life.


When thinking about each of our plot line and characters we had come up with several as a basis of each. We tried to relate our plot to "Cabin in the Woods" and "The Blair Witch Project", both are also classed as 'teen horrors' and are set in a woodland or forest surroundings, for when the killing sprees begin.