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The Teen drama genre typically abide by the conventions
following American popculture.
The conventions usually include: Alcohol, illegal substances,
violence, high school,parties, intimate relationships, social
groups and cliques.
In the first two minutes of our movie we chose to show what we
thought were the
most familiar conventions such as relationships, social groups
and cliques, as theaudience would automatically link them to the
relevant conventions for this genre.
The Teen drama genre also make use of binary oppositions, such
as Good Vs Eviland Law Vs Crime.
Similarly, our movie uses the opposition Good Vs Evil, but does
not touch upon theaspect of Law Vs Crime.
This is because the attitudes with the love triangle were
central to the storyline,however if law was brought into the plot,
it would act as a distraction.
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When looking at the film in general, each character seems naive,
asthey bombarded with ideas of love, and it is obvious that
each
characters relationship problems dominate their lives.
Within this gang influenced social group, the male characters
appeardominant, taking control of the area they are in, or the
people they arearound. For example Aaron and his girlfriend, Laura,
This is illustratedby the mockery texts that he sends to her.
In addition, the young gang in our movie is based upon groups
ofyoungsters, that some may call hood rats or yobs. This is
shownthrough the verisimilitude clothing, as the characters wore
baggyclothes with their hoods up, so their faces are covered.
The fact that their faces are covered link to the idea of not
beingidentified by police or even rival gangs, if showing rude
obnoxiousbehaviour, similar to the behaviour of Aaron and his
gang.
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Many media institutions cater for a variety of genres for
example,Momentum pictures, Path, Revolver entertainment,
Hollywoodpictures, and 20th century fox.
However, I found that Revolver Entertainment released a majority
ofaction/drama and adventure films, including Noel Clarkes
Kidulthood,
hence my belief that this institute would distribute Street
Crush.
Also, I found that other films (not necessarily films of the
same genre)issued by Revolver Entertainment had the same
constituency andtarget audience.
Furthermore, Revolver entertainment is renowned for handling
bothlarge scale, and smaller scale films with equal attentions,
therefore Itrust that though our film was produced under low
resources, theywould nonetheless sponsor the film.
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Since the characters are archetypes of their social group,
thiswould attract the attention of people who understand and
can
relate to the social class, and social areas in general.
Furthermore, the characters are young teens, therefore
itaddresses the audience since the majority would share the
sameage.
The title of the film also had to be attracting, as it would
give theaudience a first impression, hence the play on words in the
titleStreet Crush. The word crush possesses two
connotationsfirstly, crush meaning smashed into pieces, and the
secondmeaning being admiration.
Ps & Qs by Kano was used as the theme tune to the film, this
is a
great attraction for the audience as it is an up to date song,
whichmany young adults enjoy listening to. Although not everyone
willlike the song, I think that it is still effective as the beat
is catchy.However, not only is it an attraction it also mirrors the
gang wars,and relationships within our story line.
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