Introduction I have created a 5-minute short film based up on the idea of an unmotivated, marginalised student who is more interested in being alone with her phone than amongst others. The main representation is that of a female youth, dealing with misconceptions of hegemony and the media who label them as lazy and troublesome. In reality, I know that there are many young people like this, but nowhere near the number that the mass media portrays . Several of the existing short films I studied represent youth in a similar way, SLAP takes a motivated teen as its protagonist but reveals a secret they keep hidden, Tight Jeans and The Ellington Kid adopt the stereotypical approach of youth as wasting their days and conforming to stereotypes with their conversations through dialogue and character expression and movement, and the setting as contemporary and everyday locations. Echo represents a negative portrayal of female youth and in a way th...
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