Starting My CCR!!

    Since I'm almost done with the whole film, it's time to start planning for my Creative Critical Reflection! 

The first question we are meant to answer for the CCR is: 

• How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

    For this question I'd talk about how my film followed the genre conventions of how coming of age films follow a character's development. The most common theme seen in this genre is either first love or friendship, but my film challenged that and my main focus is more on self-development as Layla has to go through this tough time of losing her brother and she is mostly alone because her parents are always fighting now so she turned to alcohol to cope. The film represents common issues that teenagers are now going through which is alcohol abuse and addiction. The overall mise-en-scene of Layla's room is meant to represent a teenage girl's room when her mind is a total mess inside as well. This can be seen with the clothes and trash everywhere and the dirty makeup on the desk and the unmade bed and the pizza box and the cans. I think a really important part of the film that shows how teenagers are is when she takes out the alcohol from her drawer because it is very representative of how teens tend to hide a lot of what they do when they know they shouldn't be doing it or its not right.