Genre and Convention

A teen film is a film directed at teenagers and young adults that has a story line based on interests of teenagers such as first loves, rebellion etc. Teenagers and young adults are usually the people that watch teen films as they are the ones that find them the most interesting as they feel as though they can relate to the characters and story lines. Usually in a teen movie the genres which are common are romance, comedy, action and horror.

The conventional themes in these movies are usually love, death, gang-violence, friends and sometimes sports.

These movies are all set in similar locations such as - The main characters bedroom, living room, backyard with a pool, classrooms, canteens, school sports fields, shopping centres, streets/neighbourhood, park.

In many teen movies there are a lot of stereotypical characters which can be found which usually consist of a jock, a cheerleader(which is usually the bitchy character that is going out with the jock) and a nerd(which is usually the main character). There is also the cheerleaders followers and a group of people that befriend the nerd.