Research genre convention (color)

    Since we finally came to the conclusion that we want our short film to center around a teenage female, I decided to also research the conventions that went into the two films I researched for social media in my last blog post, Edge of seventeen and Lady bird. Two themes I noticed within both films is that they explore themes of mental health and self exploration, which I think are two big factors of growing up as a teenage girl that we can relate to. 

    In the film Lady Bird, color is used in order to express the teenage angst the main character experiences. The film begins by showing her bright red hair against her mother's white sheets, which shows her rebelling nature. Color is used continuously throughout the film to stand the main character out from the rest of the cast, even in subtle ways like the blue socks she wears at her religious school. 

Similarly, in the movie "Edge of seventeen", the main character, Nadine, often wears bright colors such as blue or yellow in order to stand her out from the others and show her quirky, rebelling nature. The emphasis of these colors stands the girls out from the rest of the characters in the movie, which is something I think we can incorporate into the main character of our movie.