When we first started thinking about what sort of genre we wanted to adapt for our opening sequence of our film. We wanted to do something quite original but yet at the same time something that could appeal to a mass audience. We looked a current popular teen programmes for some insight, a lot of the most current ones we social realism genres where the characters help address current issues in society today.

We looked in detail at how the social realism theme and how it was created, we observed mise- en -scene and how it was a productive way of connoting characters personalities, background, religion and class. When creating our opening scene of our film we decided for our chosen genre; teen social realism, it was important to adapt the detailed mise en scene features that we had observed in other teen dramas.

We wanted to make it clear to our audience the characters we were trying to portray. We looked at stereotypes of teenage girls in the media today. We saw that the top main stereotypes ‘the girly chav’, ‘the Goth’ and ‘the repressed best friend’ character. We decided that the best way to express these three individual characters was through costume therefore we researched using Google images the types of outfits these stereotypes would wear.

When adapting the Goth character we dressed her in clothes that we thought connoted her gothic personality.

When creating her daytime outfit, we decided she should have long black hair- black being a dark sinister colour; it’s also a cliché that a Goth would have black hair. She had a long sleeved black top on with rips in it, another classic Goth appearance, she also had black converse; converse being a brand stereotypically used by punk/Goth people.

In the picture to the right we see the night time outfit, in this she wear a black netted/laced dressed another cliché of classic gothic clothing. The two outfits combined help connote her stereotype.

The other stereotype is ‘A chav’. When researching the ‘Chav’ look we saw a lot of revealing clothes and a lot of sparkly items that clashed with one another. Therefore in we chose to use a mini denim skirt with over the knee boots, as we believed that this outfit would seem somewhat tacky in the media today. We used a pink top to connote her girly nature; we used clichés like gold hoop earrings to add a comedic value to our film. We looked at other stereotypes of ‘a chav’ like hairstyles; the tied back bobble look was one that occurred quite frequently in our research.

In her night time we used, the classic over sequined look

to try and express a sense of tackiness to the character; a stereotype of ‘Chav’s’. We also took into consideration the stereotype of clashing colour so we added an orange flower fascinator

to her hair, this clashed with the vibrant pink dress she was wearing.

When it came to the other character we tried to establish the classic best friend stereotype. We researched this archetype by looking at current teenage films where there is a best friend role we noted that she didn’t wear exuberant costume to take the main attraction away from the main characters in our case the more noticeable people ‘Goth’ and ‘chav’.

In the film she is wearing current fashion however the colour arebasic and not much attention is focused on her outfit. In the picture to the right she wears similar outfits to her day time outfit to demonstrate her repressed and slightly dull personality, contrasting with the other twos bold, over the top and expressive outfits that represent their ppersonality.







We chose to use these classic stereotypes in our film for many reasons, the first being we thought it would appeal to a wide audience as we someone for everyone to relate to. We also thought that as our film developed we could break these stereotypes by showing that although they are clearly different in style and personality they are all still close friends. The other reason we did this is that we thought this added a comical element to our film as something that coincides with a social realism genre. We thought it was quirky as it mocked the Medias prejudgments and generalisations in today society