Our film is going to be a mix of two genres, also called a "hybrid". It contains elements of a Teen Film and of a Documentary, basically a mockumentary, a fictional documentary about a teenage boy's death. The movie will focus on friends, close ones and family dealing with it but at the same time establish what kind of person the dead boy was and subtly make it relevant to teenager's and our generationin general. A mockumentary most commonly mocks a certain topic and is not intended to be taken seriously. Our film is different, while the documentary itself is not real, the script is meant to be taken serious as it deals with an dramatic and tragic event. The genre of teen and coming of age movies has been wildly popular around the world
for decades since the 1950. At this time, the film industry saw a market for teens with a more disposable income and therefore more money to spend on leisure activities; largely going to films. Because of the boom in teen viewers, drive-in movie theatres were also very popular. The idea of an intermediate stage between childhood and adulthood was widely succesful because it offered a new and innovative way for teenagers to relate to something and also attracted a very big audience, which meant money for the filmmakers. Teen movies mostly feature themes such as sexuality, friendship, growing up, family, school and pressure, all of these are very common for the genre. Teenagers can watch these movies and associate themselves with them. They relate their own problems and their personal problems to those of the characters in the movies.
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