Coming of age

Coming of age definition 

The genre coming of age includes past tense storyline to show immaturity. The films are mostly for teenagers 13 and above. Also, the genre mostly shows particular person's life and story and sometimes show their childhood and adulthood. these film mostly includes the death of friend or member of family or bully/conflict/abuse. like for example " Boyhood".  

Boyhood

The movie starts with a non-diegetic, happy song "Yellow" by the Coldplay combine with a video of his point of view looking up at the sky. it quickly moves to the next scene of a close-up of the boy's face and the camera shot slowly zooms out to a medium shot to a long shot showing the audience what he's wearing. 
They include a side, medium shot of the mother walking towards him that enigma the audience of wanting to know who she is. when they are walking they filmed them using side, tracking shot of them walking. they film aside, medium shot of the mother driving and also for the kid. 

The music, happy atmosphere
highlighting lots of hints that make the audience think that it's part of the comedy and coming of age genre. the kid is wearing a bright coloured t-shirt, showing the audience that he is innocent. the scene is set in the open ground outside a school.The scene is base on one specific person and that's what makes "coming of age genre" which also shows the audience that this is part of the coming of age genre.