Typical Film Language

Teen Genre:
Typical camerawork: a tracking shot of popular mean girls walking down the corridor, aerial shot of the canteen of all the cliques, close up shots of ugly girl and new people.

Typical editing: cross cutting between different locations around school to show different cliques, quick cuts to make it more dramatic, slow motion of popular girls to show everyones reactions.

Typical mise-en-scene: high school e.g. canteen and class rooms, prom, natural lighting, hair and makeup and costume are importance to represent the different stereotypes.

Typical Sound: mainstream pop music, clear loud vocals and background noise (volume control), voiceovers of main character, unnatural sounds e.g. school bell.

As a teen film are many sub-genres it is rather successful as it fits into many different  genres attracting different audiences e.g. teen-drama and teen-comedy. They don't usually get a big budget as there is no special effects and sets.

Documentary Genre:
Typical camerawork; 

• camera movement (tracking shots left or right, up or down, panning, lens movement in or out) Different interpretations are possible; interpretations of actions also vary depending on the distance between characters/persons within the frame. 
• Type of shot: interpretations vary depending upon type of shot: extreme long shot, long shot, medium shot, close-up, extreme close-up. 
• This can film anything as documentaries have a wide variety of topics.

Typical Editing

• Filmmakers want to communicate meaning with the cut, with the shift from one shot to another shot of visual information; as soon as the cut comes in, the viewer should  form new judgments.
• Insert close-ups: One way filmmakers break down narrative scenes is by inserting a close-up in an unexpected context; when this is done the shot is often a close-up in order to draw our attention to the image/object and facilitate our judgment of the action.I do this in my draft work showing my sisters art work.
• Reaction shot: the use of a reaction shot--a medium shot or close-up of a character/person just after significant action occurs within the scene. The shot of the character/person provides an emotion for the character to that action. In film we follow action by means of visual cues like reaction shots, we need to see the face of the character/person in order to "read" that character/person's response. 
• Parallel editing,Point of view shot we see an image or scene from the perspective of one of the characters or subjects; allows audience to identify with the individual from whose point of view we see the scene and become their eyes to feel more involved in the short film.

Typical Mise-en-scene:

No set mise-en-scene as there is a wide range of topics.

Typical Sound:

• You can be more inventive in documentaries as you can play around with the sound. They can use Direct Interview technique (we see subject talking on camera, and we see and hear the interviewer asking questions in the same shot or in part B of a two‑part parallel track; suggests journalistic basis of reporting).Or Indirect Interview technique (we see subject talking on camera, but we don't see or hear the interviewer asking questions in the same shot; this gives the impression of the character speaking directly to the viewer.

• In documentaries they always have a lot of speech and can use voiceover narration (in one case, we hear a character speaking about some issue/problem/conflict), and we may or may not see that person engaged in some action on the screen at the same time; gives impression of audience overhearing the character reveal thoughts and feelings / in another case, the voiceover is done by a narrator.

• Direct narration (we see and hear the narrator of the film as the narration is presented; suggests an intimacy between narrator and audience; this type of narration is seldom objective‑‑its biases reflect the speaker's background, conflicts, values)

Overall I want to combine all of these different film languages to make the sub genre 'teen documentary'.