2. INTRODUCTION
Various different social groups are shown within my film opening, these are typical
stereotypes of which the audience are easily able to recognise and interpret into
the specific categories intended by us.
The three different social groups I believe we have successfully interpreted is:
Gothic/emo, typical popular high school jock and the ‘it’ girl. These all have
different contrasting stereotypes which helps the audience strongly tell between
these groups.
3. THE GOTH GIRL
I have taken into account
the various typical
conventions shared
between gothic characters
which sets them apart from
other categories. After some
thorough research I noticed
similar patterns within
chick flicks in representing
Goths and emos and these
are what we have used in
order to represent them in
this same way to ensure the
audience recognises the
social group intended.
4. By creating this character to
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ensuring strong stereotypical
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used, the audience are able to
recognise that she has been
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typical moody, mysterious
LOOKING Goth helping to interpret
what the characters initial
GOTH personality and self is like
saving a great deal of time
working this out.
5. THE JOCK
This is a character quite often seen within most high school chick
flick movies and are commonly known for their lack of common and
general knowledge, popularity with the hot, attractive girls around
school and are usually portrayed to be extremely good looking and
handsome. I believe that we have represented this character of ours
in the same manner in order for the audience to just make
assumptions to what the character is like; good looking, popular and
someone who all the girls want but also a little dumb and naive
about his game play.
6. The ‘jock’ is represented and included in various chick
flicks such as in the popular movie ‘John Tucker Must
Die’, he is portrayed as extremely popular around the high
school especially with the girls, quite cocky and because of
this the girls within the movie decide to get revenge upon
him from being so ‘big headed’ and playing along girls (an
idea we have with our film narrative).
I and my group have been successful in interpreting these
stereotypes into action within our piece to re-create the
typical social group character being ‘the jock’. The
character within our opening appears to be very appealing
to the eye as seen in the photography both female
characters possess but also very cocky and naive because
of it due to the fact we see him texting both girls, arranging
to go on a date with both, both females having the same
photograph of him, that he is playing both of the girls along
thinking he can get away with it. We have portrayed him as
the stereotypical high school jock effectively, popular with
the girls, cocky and good looking.
7. THE ‘IT’ GIRL
These are seen in most if not all
chick flicks set in a high school, she
is the girl that everybody wants to
be, pretty, popular and confident.
The ‘it’ girl within a very famous and
well-known high school chick flick
would be Regina George. The female
who is seen to be quite ‘up herself’
and rather arrogant towards the rest
of the school students, especially the
‘unpopular’ social groups such as
nerds and they also don’t tend to mix
with Goths; the contrasting
character we have chosen to
compete with the ‘it’ girl.
8. We have created our ‘it’ girl
character to be that of
attractive, very
girly, popular, outgoing and
confident. This is due to those
strong stereotypes developed INCLUDE
over the decades through
various media products. It
helps the audience immensely
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with knowing what the
character is like and also
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ensures they know what
social group she is in which is
the ‘it’ girl by recognising this
from the character’s
9. IN CONCLUSION TO THE QUESTION
Overall I believe all social groups; Goth, ‘it’ girl and jock have been
represented in the correct manner and have been represented in the
stereotypical way which was what we intended to do.
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