Who has more effect on the choices teenagers make?

Nowadays, it is a common fact that teenagers are influenced by others. Sometimes they don`t do what they want to, instead, they follow somebody`s opinion. Therefore, it is a topic of debatewho are the ones that are more influential on teenagers` life, parents or teenagers?

First of all, while speaking about clothes and fashion most people agree that teenager`s friends are the ones that have more effect in the choices they make. It may be because their parents are from another generation and they don`t understand this new generation fashion`s habits.

However, when it comes to studies and teenager`s future careers, generally, parents have more influence on the decision than friends. Parents know more than anybody their children and they also know what it is convinient for their future, so they can give them better advice.

If we talk about food, maybe we can agree that friends hace more influence  on what teens eat because they all want to be slim. So, if one of them eats healthy food and is thin, then the rest will want to do the same! Parents should pay special attention!

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This is a weekly installment where I share a few standout frames from a beautifully shot film, and how they will influence my own camera work as a small/no-budget solo professional videographer. 

"Ida" - 2013 

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

 Director of Photography: Ryszard Lenczewski & Lukasz Zal

 This film was a master-piece in my opinion. I have three stand out examples of how this has influenced my own craft. 

  1. The Edge of the frame

One of the first photography/cinematography rules you will learn is the 1/3s framing rule. Which I typically abide without second thought. There are some good reasons for that, the best one being that if the main subject in the frame has a face, you want screen room in the direction of their gaze. Watching this film, you can't not notice how often they place subjects at the farthest edges of the frame.I really liked the effect this had, and was immediately thinking of ways to implement this in my own work.

2. Stillness

When you start expanding your camera skills and gear kit, you will ultimately become obsessed with camera motion. When to do it, how to do it and how superior you feel when you nail the perfect tilt, pan, slide or glide. "Ida" is almost entirely shot on a stationary tripod, and the camera never tilts or pans, and yet this was one of the most visually captivating and engaging films I have seen in a long time. Here is a scene, that perfectly exemplifies how beautiful stillness can be when implemented well. It is almost like the camera was too humble to take attention from the story in front of it. Adding too much camera motion is a consistent trap amongst modern day wedding videography, and I see potential in avoiding and standing out against the crowd. Motion is always going to be a premium skill-set, but just because you can, doesn't mean you should. If you watch this movie, you will notice the one handheld shot, and you will feel how intentional and informative that choice was.

3. Cinematic Ratio

I'm a widescreen snob. Makes sense considering our tvs, computers and devices (when held horizontally), are all in the 16x9 ratio range, and that is the frame size my camera shoots as well. I, and many others, will deploy an even wider frame via cropping in post production, i.e. "cinematic wide". Ida was shot in a classic photography frame size of 4x3, which suited the time period of the story, and yet still felt just as cinematic as its widescreen peers. Comparison shot from Wes Anderson's film Rushmore below. 

Influences 

 Most people are influenced by someone's aspirations and character which help us, in a positive or negative way, to develop ourselves. Which are the types of people who have a steongest influence on other's character?

 When we are young, maybe little children, the ones that most contribute to shaping our character and aspirations are our parents, because most of the time we are babies we need someone to educate us. Despite the fact that we are born with a determined personality, sometimes our parents are the ones that guide us. But this issue has a huge disadvantage, most people are concerned about no disappointing them. For example, they always want they children to have high marks at school and maybe the child doesn't want to study, or maybe the parents want them to be doctors, but they don't like that job. They influence our character because the teach us to be respectful, they give us the values we need for life, or at least that's what parents are supposed to do. 

 When we are older, sometimes the ones that most affect out aspirations and character are our peers. Due to the fact that we are almost all day with them at school, sometimes talking and discussing about our lives when we have free time. This fact also has some disadvantages. For example, most people want to fit in and be accepted by their mates and group of friends, and they make the mistake of changing their behaviour accordingly of who they are with. Also, most of the time, if your friends have bad habits like smoking or drinking alcohol, thay can affect in a negative way your aspirations and character.