2. The protagonist in our film opening represents the
stereotypical view of ‘girly girls’ and ‘preppy’s’. These social
groups are known for being obsessed with appearance, overly
confident, stuck-up and attention seeking. This social group is
often presented overly stereotypical in our genre as it creates
comedy as teens can relate it to people they know in this social
group by exaggerating their actions. We already had an idea of
how we physically wanted to portray Bea but after doing
research into this social group we wanted to emphasise her
confidence, big headedness and snobbery into how we
presented her physically. We did this by choosing someone
who was attractive but made it look like they had put a lot of
effort into looking that good. The actors sharp, bold hair cut
and colour emphasises her confidence and need to be centre
of attention. We gave her strong obvious makeup appliance
e.g. heavy dark eyes, bright coloured lips again to show her
wanting to be looked at. The idea of protagonists being a
female in teen comedies is a convention made from
stereotypes suggesting females have more trouble and drama
in teenage years and at school.
3. Male antagonist in Teen Comedies are usually an elderly and rich father of the
protagonist who doesn’t want their daughter going out with boys/wants them to work
harder at school e.g. Clueless, 10 things I hate about you. In other cases they are
jealous peer who wants to ruin the protagonists reputation e.g. Regina George -
meangirls, Sharpay - high school musical. However we went against conventions with
out antagonist and presented him as a teacher which to an audience/public suggests he
has knowledge so when he tries to contends with Bea and opposes what she believes
as his role as a antagonist, the audience will reason with the character as his social
group represents maturity and knowledge. As Mr G is also a male character this
suggests he has the authority to confront and argue with Bea. This is because
stereotypically male are seen as more physically and emotionally strong and powerful in
media. So in our film we have represented males and females stereotypically.
4. Most teen comedies take the portrayal of females to one end or the other. They are
either like our protagonist, confident, stuck-up and sassy or quite the opposite,
geeky, shy and unpopular. This is because to teens women are often seen to serve a
purpose of being attractive or failing. However we went against this social
representation in our character of Bianca. Bianca is presented a someone who
doesn’t care about how they look but still has friends and succeeds in school. She is
successful and respectable. This is a portrayal that women are being presented in a
more positive light in all social medias and challenges old conventions of females.
