The Bling Ring

 The 'Bling Ring' is a teen drama as the whole movie revolves around teenagers. It's based on a real life event which included 5 teenagers teaming up and robbing celebrity's houses.

The Conventions:
Themes - fashion, crime, drugs, alcohol, relationships/friendship (clique), partying, peer pressure, rebellion, greed and money.
Settings/location - celebrity's houses, club, parent's house (bedroom) and high school.
Music - urban, hip-hop, dance and trance.
Characters - teenagers, teen stereotypes, authority ruining the fun and stupid adults.
Costume - flashy, designer, expensive and fashionable.

This teen drama reflects both teens and modern culture in a very stereotypical way by showing teenagers to be shallow and greedy. It differs in a great way from teen drama's in the past as in the past teen dramas didn't include as much crime but more romance, or it would of never of been about teenagers stealing. Whereas, in Bling Ring the whole movie also revolved around the theme of crime as they steal from a handful of celebrities.
In the movie the clique is very together and share what they steal but when they get discovered we can see that they all quickly rat out on each other trying to find a solution that will only benefit them and not the others, this reflects teen in modern society as groups of friends tend to do this in a serious situation.

The 'Clique' is represented as being very materialistic and self-obsessed only wanting the newest fashion trend, designer clothes, drugs and alcohol. When it comes to linking to other teen dramas it's only to an extent, as in most teen dramas you don't really see  four girls and one guy in a group.

The protagonist (the boy) is portrayed as being vulnerable and gullible at the start of the movie as he follows the main girl into the houses and doesn't say anything other than 'we shouldn't be here' but rather than running he stays along side her. When he realises what she is doing we can see that he starts to come out of his comfort zone by going along with her to all the robberies and finding the address of the celebrity's houses, he also beings to consume drugs and alcohol.
The protagonist in 'Bling Ring' is similar to the protagonist of 'Mean Girls' as again in Mean Girls the protagonist is almost vulnerable even though being popular and in the school football team, he is still vulnerable when it comes to girls.

The film represents social networking as Facebook is greatly used in the movie by showing certain scenes of how this clique use Facebook to contact each other and upload their pictures of them wearing the clothes. Consumerism is also represented in this drama as we can see that celebrity Paris Hilton buys all of the newest trends out in fashion and we can see from scenes of her house that she has alot of things that have to do with herself such as pillows and the whole of her corridor full of magazine covers framed.