The Bling Ring

 

 

 

The bling ring is a teen film about a group of teenagers who live in LA who go around to famous celebrities houses when they are not home and steal from them. At first it is just a bit of fun to see what it would be like to live the celebrity lifestyle but then things get out of hand. Celebrities begin realising things are missing and the CCTV footage from their houses show the same gang of people referred to by the media as "The bling ring."

 

 

 

  

 

 

The opening of the movie was conventional because it had the title of the movie and the actors who were starring in the movie which is common for almost every movie.The opening of the movie gave as an idea of the genre of the movie and the type situations that may arise in the movie.

 

Something that was unusual about the movie was that the title sequence was a montage(lots of clips and pictures put together) that foreshadowed what would later happen in the film. The montage consisted of pictures of social networking sites, shoes, handbags, jewellery and selfies of the "The bling ring "together.

 

The movie starts with a flash-forward of one of "the bling ring" members speaking out to the press about what has happened and how it had effected her personally.it then cuts to a shot of a big house and at the bottom of the screen is the location as to where the film was set which in this case was America.

 

The film did follow conventions of movies in terms of location characters, sound, storyline, binary oppositions.

The most common locations in the movie were:

Clubs

School

bedroom

Kitchen

 

The main binary oppositions in the movie were:

Rich vs Poor

Good vs Bad

Right vs Wrong

Teenagers vs Authority