Teen film

racing. His dream, as a teen, was actually to become a professional racecar driver until he got into a terrible accident, which ended that dream. He then went to the University of Southern California Film School where he pursued his passion of movie making. Lucas started becoming so good at making movies, that Warner Brothers gave him a scholarship to oversee the making of one of his movies. Then, when Lucas got out of college, he made his own film making business called Lucas Films. With the…

When Nanette Burstein’s award winning documentary “American Teen” was shown to a class of current american teens, myself included, the movie was ridiculed for its lack of accuracy. While this may be due the differences in year, location and diversity, some of the aspects presented were felt very exaggerated and that key parts in their lives were omitted. Jake Tusing, the gamer or geek of the film, spent most of the film searching for a girlfriend. Although this is an almost accurate…

nontraditional media.” (Levine, 2008) An artist who has embraced a new age of craft with his DIY aesthetic is Michel Gondry. Gondry is a French film director, producer and screen writer. Gondry is known for using simplified film techniques, handmade props, hand drawn type and animations to create an original, visual story through film. The techniques he uses in his films and video clips generate child like masterpieces. Majority of his works are inspired by his childhood and in an interview…

Video Assignment: “The Merchants of Cool” Assignment What do these quotes mean? The comments from the video “The Merchants of Cool” summarize many of the important ideas expressed in the video. In your answers, include AT LEAST 2 sentences: one sentence that explains the quote and another sentence that expresses your opinion about the concept. 1) "The paradox of ‘cool hunting’ is that it kills what it finds." -Douglas Rushkoff • According to Douglas in the video the…

Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller-horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film received five Academy Award nominations and Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award for the film, as well as many other Best Actress awards in several guilds and festivals. In addition, Darren Aronofsky was nominated for Best Director and the film itself received a nomination for Best Picture. Thirty-one awards is the number that this film received. Natalie Portman won Best Actress for…

Why is American in love with fear? There is a certain genre of movies called “Horrors”, which when a director creates the intense shock, fear, or disgust in their movies. These so called horror films include murders, ghosts, demons, monsters, and creature. Horrors get people’s hearts racing, and a movie like, The Children of the Corn, could leave some with the eebie-jeebies. Most people want to know why American’s enjoy the serial killing, ghost hunting flicks, but it all directly relates…

The role of the mysterious Harry Lime in The Third Man is played Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), a character that doesn’t appear in the film until nearly the end of the movie, but his sudden appearance and presence makes for a climatic final. Much as been said about Welles involvement in the making of the film, citing on the fact that he was well-known as a director, producer, writer, and actor in his own right. And the fact that he won an Academy Award eight years before for writing and Original…

The films American Movie and It Follows serve as great examples of realistic and formalistic aesthetics, respectively. Realistic aesthetics deal with the idea of objectivity in film making, and any aesthetics implemented serve to continue the narrative or theme of the film. The idea of formalistic aesthetics directly contrasts this; these films works in the realm of subjectivity and regards aesthetic form just as high as the plot. This strong contrast between the two aesthetics can be seen…

changes, film makers still seem to regularly allow sexism and prejudice behaviors in their films. Films are quiet the ultimate expressive experience thus far devised by man. Invoking such sensory euphoric experiences that combines visual, audial, and emotions that simply engage us so deeply that perhaps we could compare it to our deepest fantasies. Their side: While horror is not for everyone, the show boxes targeted audience is usually men and teenagers under 25yrs of age. Men and…

What 3 elements do you think are the most important in a teen film? The teen films have important elements like Characters, Themes, Settings, Music and Plot. My movies I picked to discuss with is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “Wayne’s World” and “10 Things I Hate About You”. The important elements I am going talk about is they Characters, they Setting and they Music. My First I am going to talk is a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. My first element about it is “Characters”. Ferris Bueller is our…