Genre Research:The Edge of Seventeen

     We watched and analyzed the coming-of-age movie The Edge of Seventeen about a teen whose life starts spiriling after her best friend starts dating her brother. The angles in this movie are mostly eye level, over the shoulder, point of view shots, close ups, medium close ups, or medium shots but there are some high and low angles sprinkled in. The camera movement consisted of pans, tilts, and many tracking shots. This movie had many of this genres conventional shots such as wide shots, establishing shots, two shots, three shots but also had some hand held shots. The costumes in this movie were everyday wear made up of jackets, long sleeve shirts, and skirts. The lighting was either dim or natural throughout the whole thing with a few scenes having neon lighting. The actors were Caucasian young adults who played the teens and Caucasian middle aged actors who played the adults. Makeup was never heavy it was mostly minimal to none. Props were things such as backpacks or phones. The settings were mostly school, a house, restaurants, or a car. Editing was mainly cut aways, shot-reverse-shots, eye-line matches, reaction shots, and jump cuts with fade ins and outs appearing once or twice. There was dialogue in the movie along with diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, voiceovers, ambient sound, and music consisting of rock, pop, and melancholic songs. The elements of the movie were awkward moments, sarcasm, arguments, emotional scenes, and funny moments. We like that the movie was realistic and funny. We did not like that the movie tried to push the brother and best friend having a deep connection even though there are no scenes really showing the audience proof of that.