Sunday, 29 December 2013

Holiday Task: Write up of a Teen Movie











21 Jump Street.

Is a story that follows Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill's characters from high school into their early police careers.

Channing's character Jenko is stereotypical a 'jock' who through the whole of Jonah's character Schmidt's, high school life bullied him.

However, 7 years later when they both join the same police squad it turns out that they will need to rely on each others strengths to get through the course. They are paired up as partners for park duty - they thought police duties would be more exciting. When Chaning arrests one of the most wanted drug dealers in the area they think they have found their big break as policemen but he fails to recite the Miranda rights to the suspect and the case then falls through. The pair are sent to a police retraining course at 21 Jump Street. As a result of this they are sent undercover students in a local high school. Their cover story is that they are brothers who are new to the area. However they immediately come under attack and suspicions are raised by some of the other students as they have started a new school with only 30 days to go before the summer break.








Two pair on their police duties at the park
After taking the drugs - to prove they are actual students within the school

After joining at the they must begin to prove themselves to be students and not uncover police officer's if they wish to find out who they ring leader of the drugs gang is.


However, the tables are turned and just like Jenko was the popular one back in high school, Schmidt finds himself amongst the popular crowd this time with, Jenko spending most of his time with the 'nerds' .

This movie contains many binary oppositions, such as : Teens vs. Authority (in this case all three, legal, parental and educational)
Cool kids vs. The Nerds
etc...








Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Reflection Post

At this point, I realise that I am a bit behind everyone else with my blogging. There are several individual tasks that I still haven't started or completed, so over the Christmas holidays, I'm going to ensure that I catch up with all my work as I have realised I cannot get the marks I want, if I don't put the time or effort into my blog.  So, I will do all the necessary posts along with some extra ones like this.

Monday, 16 December 2013

Creation of our own stereotype


https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYOvEvS0OhSBmsNMsxXg-Wt_jKlYGKwpbLGV3Ew8p8zs3jkleM6lMDfBqFCJyXbfjjK-_QFAdDbsYV8YXNZSdkjO_Lp7NdGvAtBZTp0RWsAQJgSp837AzZtu-RDuRklf5MRpzKJsMC7Sk/s1600/NotAnotherTeenMoviePic1.jpg In our lesson today we watched the film 'Not Another Teen Movie'. This familiarised us with all the different stereotypes in teen movies.


As you can see in this picture the slut is dressed in a cheer leading uniform with a short skirt and a crop top which is very revealing. She is in the middle of picture, this draws a lot of attention to her. Her pose is quite sexually as she is sticking her bum out and pouting. Another example of films you would find a character like this would be Mean Girls, American Pie and Wild Child.

The jocks are usually dressed in baseball jacket who are fit and healthy and who are the 'eye candy' for the girls.

Representation Task: The Slut


We created another stereotype of the 'Slut'. We thought it would be quite funny for Shahed to portray this stereotype. It is stereotypical for the 'slut' to have big boobs as they like to attract and grab attention from the opposite sex. Also Shahed's face is slightly faced up to suggest power and very often the 'slut' believes she is better than everybody else.

Representation Task: The Jock

In lesson today we created the stereotype of the 'Jock'. After looking at stereotypes in teen movies we noticed that the jock is normally quite muscular. So we stuffed Shahed's jacket with paper to make it appear that he has bigger shoulders and arms. Also we found that the 'jock' wore a baseball jacket in most films so Shahed also wore one.
           Stereotypes
  • Baseball jacket 
  • Large
  • Bully
  • Hot
  • Chick magnet
  • Athlete 
  • Dumb
  • Fit/healthy 

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Analysis of a teen movie - The Breakfast Club





This film covered every serious topic that a high school student has pondered upon in a stereotypical teen movie: sex, social stratification tobacco use, parental frustration, marijuana and even suicide.The films starts with an unlikely group of teenagers bound together by collegiate authority in Saturday detention. each member of the circle bring different aspect of high school life to light. The breakfast club consists of 5 members: the athlete, the brain, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal. Although very distinctive character traits, I feel that every high school student could relate to certain aspects of at least one character.

Characters

The Athlete



The Brain


The Princess


The Basket Case



The Criminal


Homework: Write up of a teen movie

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