Shia LaBeouf (Sam) - The Transformers movies:
Sam a teenager involved in a war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two factions of alien robots who can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery. Sam buys his first car with his dad and later finds out his car is a robotic alien. Sam then is brought into this battle between two intergalatic robotic aliens. This shows how a normal teenagers life can be changed very suddenly.
Slumdog Millionaire:
Mumbai in 2006, eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a former street child from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, and is one question away from the grand prize. However, before the 20,000,000 question, he is detained and interrogated by the police, who suspect him of cheating because of the unlikelihood that a simple "slumdog" could possibly know all the answers. Jamal recounts, through flashbacks, the incidents in his life which provided him with each answer. This may be classed as a fairly extreme case of how an average teenagers life can change drastically but the point is still there.
Alex Rider Stormbreaker:
This movie is based on the Alex Rider series and this is the first book of the series and the only to have become a movie. The basic plot is that Alex Rider who is a fourteen year-old orphan and lives with his uncle Ian Rider (Ewan McGregor) who is supposedly a bank manager and is often away from home. One day Alex is told that his uncle has died in a car crash. Alex subsequently discovers that Ian Rider was in fact a spy working for MI6 and that he was killed by famed assassin. Again this how drastically a characters or persons life can change around. And this is one of the points of my story and also the point I am trying to put across may make it easier for people to understand my story a bit better after reading the background story aswell.
All three of these movies are prime examples of how my media product represents a particular social group, in this case it is the teenagers, which are primarly between the ages of 13 - 19 years of age. Again each of these movies contains a normal teenager's life and who's world is dramatically changed by one event or discovery. This in a way could pass a "message" over that not every teenager is the same and that they are different, in terms of different events that they have encountered in their lives, most of which I doubt are quite as drastic as the ones shown in any of the movies shown.
However they are some movies that represent the youthful population in a negative way such as the 2010 film "Shank" which portrays the stuggle of living life in the year 2015 when gangs have taken over London and the struggle to find food or known as "munchies" in the film. This film in my opinion shows a negative yet positive representation to the teenage population because there are scenes of violence, swearing, abuse and many gang related activites. Also while filming at the Heygate Estate in Walworth, South London during September 2009, neighbours complained about the film's violent depiction of gangs,turf wars and stabbings. However on the other hand there is the storyline, which shows the struggle for a a young teenager to avenge his brothers death and determination to do so. And this in my view shows the positive impact that a teenager can have and one of the characteristics of which they have and can be a valuable assest in the world.
Shank:
Female Representation:
In most genre movies, there are several cases where the woman/ female teenager is one of the first victims of the killer/ monster. This is shown primarily in my video as it shows a woman who is clearly vulnerable and that is taken advantage of during the video. However, this is a very sterotypical view in horror movies and in shown in film such as "Scream" and "Final Destination". In my video I have shown the males to more overpowering than woman as it is later discovered that the killer is a male and this is shown through acts such as throwing her down to the ground and camera angles such as putting the camera in a lower position and facing up towards the killer to show his dominance and position in that particular scene.
In general I have represented teens as both victims of society and also a way of dominating society. Unfortunaly teenagers in general are now obtaining bad reputations due to knife and gun crimes and this can to a certain degree be shown in my films aswell as film such as "Demons Never Die".
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