Elizabeth Berrios Final Project Blog

    Some potential issues with gender representation in this trailer are the typical "jock," "popular girl," and "nerd." The jock is portrayed as overly masculine, and the popular girl is overly sexualized and rude, while the nerdy girl is perceived as ugly until she takes off her glasses. I do not think there is proper representation of these groups in this film, as they feed into stereotypes of teens in high school and how they act towards each other. Based off what is shown, the storyline seems to sort of go along with these stereotypes, but the main guy character tries to get with the "nerdy" girl as a dare/bet, which is very typical in these types of movies. The difference is it seems as if one of the "jocks" sees the "nerdy" girl as beautiful and misunderstood, which does kind of go against the typical storyline. But no, it doesn't really address the problems. While it may be better for films to have quality repre...

 So far in this class, I'm thinking of either making a rom-com or a horror movie. Both seem kind of fun to create, and I would enjoy the creative process of making a movie like that. With horror movies, there are so many ways you can go about that along with the storyline. But with rom-coms, there are also a ton of storylines of people finding love, which could be fun. And creating outfits for the characters would be a fun process. The issue is figuring out who would be willing to act in something like that. Either seems fun to create a storyline for or film, but I'm leaning towards horror. Horror could also be fun with makeup and maybe special effects.