Teen Angst Openings

Juno-

 

• Coming of age

• Casual teenage clothes

• Non diegetic music – upbeat and happy

• Cartoon background – animation

• Comic like – would appeal to a young audience

• The font is comic like – all bright colours

• The other characters  are teens

• Drinking sunny d – drinking from the cartoon – teenage typical behaviour

 

Easy a-

 

• The music is happy – non diegetic

• Editing – a montage of scenic shots 

• lots of tracking shots

• set at the high school- shows its going to be a teen drama- comedy

• the voiceover(a lot of comicdic bits)  – layering of sound

• stereotypical – the popular girl, the geeks, the sporty ones, the pretty ones, the non-popular crowd

• the actors names are on the ground but get cut off by the groups of people

 

Angus, Thongs and perfect snogging -

• Stereotypical characters – popular and non popular

• Non diegetic music –pop

• Pink rooms teddy bears- shes still a child

• Funny opening – draws a younger audience 

 

Hairspray
 

• bright coloured clothes worn by all the characters
• diegetic catchy music
• she's getting ready for school - something a teen would do - obviously
• stereotypical teen characters - popular girls - nerdy boys
• she takes one bite from an apple and then chucks it away - teens are wasteful 

Grease

• the cartoon drawings- to attract the teen audience
• the non diegetic music is catchy and funky
• the cartoon drawings are referenced throughout the film - when Danny is singing about Sandy theres a dancing Hotdog in the background
• the male cartoon character in the opening is a stereotype because he is messy covered in "Grease"