Film Titles

The teen angst genre is shown through the titles of these films through many features. One way its shown is through the acronyms. GBF stands for Gay Best Friend and the DUFF stands for  Designated Ugly Fat Friend. This helps show its teen angst as teenagers use acronyms in their day to day lives and vocabulary.

The teen angst genre is shown through this because the title is very short. This helps show this film is teen angst because teenagers tend to use shorter words so therefore they can relate to this. Also, all of the letter A's are in capitals and are also in the colour red. This is almost child like as teenagers and children tend to colour in letters of words when they are bored, day dreaming or not paying attention. Also, the fact that the letter A's are in capital letters and different colours emphasises the teen genre as A's can be related to school as you can achieve a grade A. This helps with identifying the genre as teenagers are in school a lot of the time so can relate to this, making them want to watch the film.

The fact that these titles have the number 13 and the word Child in helps identify the teen angst genre. This is because it tells the audience straight away the sort of age of the main character will be. Therefore, there is already a hint of what the main characters life will be like as they are identified as a young character. Teenagers will then go and buy it as they will be able to relate to the character through age.

These titles help identify the teen angst genre as some of the words in these titles help describe teenagers in some way. The words Mean, Clueless and Hate are good words to describe how some teenagers behave. This therefore connotes that the films are teen angst as teenagers can relate to the titles through having similar characteristics.

In all of these teen angst titles there are bright colours, and some even have sparkles and glitter in them. A colour that appears frequently is pink/purple. The pink/purple and the glitter are helpful in identifying the teen angst genre because they both connote the characteristics of a teenage girl and teenage girls are the target audience for the teen angst genre. Also, most of the writing is sans serif. The only word in all of these titles which is serif is 'going' in 13 going on 30,and even then, it is very subtle. This helps with the identification of the genre as teenagers can be lazy and if they can not read something straight away, a lot of them will not spend their time attempting to figure out what it says. Therefore, using this writing connotes that some teenagers can be lazy which is very accurate.