we chose these settings, especially the ones outside the house because it reflects an average teenagers walk to school, we wanted to keep the element of realism strong throughout. If we had chosen a street with a lot of colour and is very busy, it would taken away from the focus of the two characters Darcy and Ash in the scene and that was the most important thing to focus on. Also, as our teen angst focuses a lot on mental health and battling depression, the dull bleak setting reflects and resembles this idea. we took the idea of the main character walking down their street to school, from the teen angst film 'Juno' that we studied as a group for our research, we liked the fact that though simple, its something every teenager can stereotypically relate to, as steroytpically every teenager will at some point walk to school, as it's not the most exciting and interesting experience, but it's a lot of teenagers routines in the morning and that what we were trying to mimic in our teen angst opening sequence to capture that realism.
Finally we chose the stereotypical setting of a high school, This is because in all of the teen angst films we had researched, that being 'Mean Girls' , 'Wild Child' , 'Breakfast Club' etc they all took place in a high school setting. As a group we saw this a stereotypical convention of the teen angst genre and decided we had to add that into our own teen angst opening sequence. The teen angst genre is stereotypical based around the secrets we tell (Mean Girls) , the decisions we made (Breakfast Club, Juno), who we date (Angus, thongs and perfect snogging) , what grades you receive (Clueless), the friendship troubles(Mean girls, Angus thongs and perfect snogging) or parent issues (Wild Child) and this is stereotypically centered around one setting, that being high school, with this is mind we only felt it right to use this setting in our own teen angst film, to make it more realistic, relatable and conventional to its genre.
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