Research into teen angst films

Most teen angst films are school related as this is the place that teenagers form relationships with their peers, whether it is hatred, love or friendship. They also spend lots of time there and the majority of their teenage years are focused on school. The films are usually set in high schools as this the age group of the target audience (12- 18). This is because the target audience can relate to this location and the feelings for the above reasons. Some examples that i have seen this in are:



The main characters in teen agnst film are girls. This is because they are stereotypically the gender that faces more problems emotionally and mentally that the target audience of girls can relate to. However there is usually a love interest that is a boy. He is stereotypically good looking and girls can relate to this aswell. There are usually two main social groups of girls. There are the 'good looking, popular, bitchy girls' such as the three girls in the mean girls picture above and the 'innocent, less popular, nerdy girls' such as in the easy a picture.


In studying other films in the teen angst genre there were a few title conventions i noticed. These include pink/stereotypically girly colours, different sized letters and the majority of them were in sans serif font. The pink colours are stereotypical of the young female gender and so would connote that this is the main target audience for the film or the film is a teen angst. The different sized letters included in the titles could connote uncertainty and confusion which is how the characters could be feeling about the situations in the film. The sans serif font connotes that the film is relaxed and not a serious film. It indicates that the genre is friendly and relatable. Back grounds are also stereotypically pink for these same reasons.