These
character are from the film 'Mean Girls'. They are a stereotype of the
'bitchy', popular girls that most teen angst films have. They are 'good
looking' young girls. The clothes they are wearing are pink, which is
stereotyped as the colour associated with girls, and modern at the time
of filming. Their facial expressions and pose show they are very
confident and self righteous. They have long healthy hair that most
girls of this age take pride in. They also wear make up which shows they
are typical teenage girls but also shows that they have some self
confidence issues. This is relatable to the audience. Our characters above are the group of girls who are 'good looking' and popular in the school
and also at the same age range as the characters in mean girls. Our
characters will be wearing modern clothes that are pink as this helps to connote the genre to the audience. We chose to have them be very confident as they are seen as the 'bitchy' popular girls that everyone respects but fears
as well. These characters will be similar to the mean girls characters
as they will take pride in their looks, hair and social image. They are
also similar to the mean girls characters as they think they are better
than everyone else and are very materialistic with jewellery and
accessories such as bags and clothes. They are nearly always with their
friendship group and act similar to each other in order to keep up
social appearance. The main characters in mean girls are girls and they
have similar personality traits to main characters in teen angst films.
They are bitchy, care about their appearance and most importantly care
about their social status within the school and the local community.
They want to be seen as someone important and that everyone looks up to
and are jealous of. This is how this particular social group are
represented in most well known teen angst and is also how they are
portrayed in our film. We portray them like this by including the
features listed previously.
This
is the love interest from the 'Angus, Thongs and perfect snogging'. He
is seen as 'Good looking' and popular. He has dark mid/short length hair
and wears no make up as boys stereotypically don't. This hair cut is
modern and the clothes he is wearing are also modern but simple. This
shows boys don't care too much about their appearance but try to still
be modern. His pose and camera shot show he is laid back and happy. Our
love interest in our film has brown hair and is seen as 'Good
looking'. He is popular and wears trendy clothes. All of these features
mean that girls find him attractive and this is why he is the main love
interest in the film. Our character is called Dylan, (above on the
right) and will also be portrayed as laid backed and very happy. (His
facial expressions display this as he always look happy and is never
angry). He wears trendy clothes that everyone finds cool and this helps
him with his popularity. He is the same age as the girls in the film and this is the same age as our target audience. Dylan is a good looking guy who hangs around with the
other popular lads in the school and are very good at sport. This is a
contributing factor to his popularity in the school and again, is a convention of teen angst films. Two girls from
different ends of the social ladder 'fancy' the love interest in our
film. It starts off with the most popular girl dating him but this
changes over the course of the film. This is very stereotypical of the
teen angst genre. We represent Dylan as the main male character in the
film. We portray him as sporty, good looking, popular and seen as eye
candy by the female characters in the film and also by the audience.
This adds to the representation that Dylan is the love interest in the
film. In Juno and Angus thongs and perfect snogging it is clear that the
love interest plays a big part in the story line and the characters
feelings that are shown in the movie. We have tried to replicate these
ideas in our movie.
Above
on the left is the quiet, less popular girl from the film 'Easy A'. She is
the less popular social group. She works hard at school and
nobody really notices her apart from her best friend. She doesn't talk
to other people and all she wants is to be happy. She doesn't care about
how popular she is.
On
the right is the equivalent character in our film called Madison.
Again, she works hard in school and is happy with her life and the
friends she has. She isn't really noticed by anyone other than her
friendship group and she is happy with that. She is a nice kind girl who
cares for her friends. These girls would wear typically nice,
sophisticated clothes that aren't promiscuous. The accessories she has
are mainly books and equipment for school as she cares more about that
than popularity. She is new to the school so nobody knows her at first apart from Dylan who pays her some attention.
She is friendly and acts mature for her age. She wears minimal make up
as she feels she should be accepted for who she is and what everyone
else wants. These attributes mean that this social group are seen as
less promiscuous than the more popular girls. We represent this
character as a perfect student that does no harm to anyone. She works
hard and cares about grades and her friends. This is similar to the
character in Easy A above and the girl in 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' as they all start off being less popular and throughout the film become more popular. These are the contrasting group to
the 'Bitchy' group above. These are the two main groups that are
conventional throughout teen angst films. Through our research we found
this out and then decided it would be wise to include these two
contrasting groups.
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