History of Coming of Age Films

In my second task, I researched into the history of some famous coming of age films with an audience of teenagers between 13-19 years old. To present this I made a timeline of the films by release, which you can see below: -  




Learning comment:

In the past, coming of age films have had inspirational opening sequences that engage the target audience demographic with ease. The majority of coming of age films have a target audience of teenagers between 13 and 19 years of age. This is because the term "coming of age" means the progression from your teenage years up to young adulthood, which implies that films of this genre will be relatable for people in audience demographic E, more than others.  It is evident from the parts of narrative given away in the opening sequences that these films will be of the coming of age genre, because the protagonist in all of the films I have looked at has been a teenager. When it comes to making my opening sequence, the main character I will use will be of a similar age to myself, as this seems to be a big convention in these movies.
I have also learnt that famous directors of this genre include John Hughes and Jason Reitman. Therefore when styling my opening sequence, I will aim to use as many conventions of their openings titles as possible.