Representation... ft. an unorganized rant!?

    REPRESENTATION IN MY FILM...

   I am 16 years of age, I was born on July 19, 2002 thus making me apart of generation Z. Throughout every corner of media, generation Z is portrayed to be technologically obsessed teens who can not function without their cellphones. To some extent this may be true but its not just generation Z, its a majority of people who live on this planet. Take for example my family, my  76 year old grandma has Instagram  snapchat and is constantly sending me memes and videos through Whatsapp or my 45 year old mother who a majority of her marketing campaign for her company revolves around social media and ads. Even, my 1 year old sisters who spend there days lounging around and watching kids shows.
  The other day I was watching a film" duff", its about a  high-school senior Bianca, she  has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the DUFF -- designated ugly fat friend -- to her prettier and more popular pals. The film continues on as she changes herself to be accepted. In this film teens where portrayed as dramatic, hormonal, idiots who would change every aspect of who they are ignorer to fit in. This is an unfair representation of this group. I am not saying that there are no dramatic, hormonal, idiots, however, I am saying that there is such a small percentage of teens like this it is unfair to name them as such. They take this stereotype and take it to an extreme that is uncalled for, as if people above the age of 20 aren't engulfed in the technological realm of social media. I believe it unfair to portray teens as people who are so insecure and so obsessed with  technology that they can not even properly function. 
 However, this was not just seen in the film I watched but in this other film that took it to a whole extreme. The  film " Bennys video" this is about  a 14-year-old who murders another kid—and films the whole thing for posterity. OK.. WHAT! The fact that someone would make a film and portray teens as desensitized monsters who would kill people and film it. 
 I want to no just represent teens in my film but I want to represent female teens and their role with technology, social media and body image. I am going to work with the idea that a girl would reinvent her self in order to be deemed beautiful. However, remove the stereotype about the obsession with technology. Furthermore, I want to challenge the idea that only teens play a role in social media and technology.