Media Studies Portfolio

Within my media portfolio, I want to correctly represent the teenager convention. I feel that teenagers are constantly misrepresented throughout movies, they are always seen with one-sided personalities instead of multi-faceted young adults. This is seen in the Breakfast Club with all the characters leading only one type of lifestyle and spending their time with only one hobby. In the television show “Freaks and Geeks” the teenager life is shown as the rebellious one where the characters start to disregard what their parents say and depend more on the opinion of their friends to truly learn more about life and its experience. This show depicts a once “nerdy” starts to hang out with the “edgy” kids and starts to skip class and dress a certain way. I feel that teenagers can be rebellious scholars, they can get a 1400 on the sat and sneak out of their house on Friday nights. One-dimensional characters lead to stereotypes which are almost never true about a certain group of people. The J...

Blog Post 1 Genre : Thriller These movies typically contain a female protagonist whos young and in distress and a man as the foil serving as the antagonist. The setting normally carries the characteristic of isolation such as the woods, abandoned warehouses, and fields. Often there is romance involved. Sample #1: Get Out- in this film a black man plans to meet his girlfriend's parents for the weekend at their house but when he gets there something doesn't sit right with him. He meets a young black man who is his age married to an elderly woman with the same jargon as she. This film poses a psychological thriller because it is based on the deep-rooted racism that still exists in our society but in an extreme form. It turns out the whole family and community in which they live switch brains of dead or elderly people and place them into the bodies of able-bodied, healthy black people because they are seen as less significant. The mother of the girlfriend is a psychologist and h...

Teen Drama Cliques, stereotypes, teen issues(such as peer pressure), school setting Obvious transitions that are full of color to appeal to the youth, close-ups to catch the facial expressions of the characters, dull lighting, low angle and high angle shots to portray the strength and weakness a character has. Institutions conventions - marketing: trailers, film posters, talk shows, promotional tours, trailers, big stars promoting the film/TV show, critique reviews Riverdale- is set in a small town following a group of four teenagers who solve crimes and mysteries in their neighborhood. They also deal with the struggles of being a teenager such as peer pressure, bullying, gossip and dating. My Mad Fat Diary- takes place in the United Kingdom and follows an overweight girl and her mental issues as well as trying to fit in with people her age and her zany mom and her illegal immigrant of a boyfriend. This show tackles teenage rebellion, teenage impulses, what it means to be a good friend...

My name is Isabella Rivera and I am in Aice Media Studies which is the purpose of this blog. Welcome! On this blog, I will display the process in which it takes to make a 5-minute introduction of a movie of my group's making and other thing's media related. Enjoy!