The document analyzes how two main characters, Josh and Ava, are portrayed in the opening sequence to represent particular social groups. Josh is portrayed as a lonely outsider through his solitary actions, shy demeanor, and lack of dialogue. Ava is portrayed as a popular, confident girl through her interactions with others and smiling demeanor. Both characters are compared to stock characters from other works - Josh to a character from Submarine who also appears lonely and moody, and Ava to a character from Mean Girls who is depicted as perfectly happy and popular. The document discusses how filming techniques like camera angles, editing, and mise-en-scene were used to clearly portray the characters and their personalities to the audience.

1. Evaluation 2 – how does you product
represent particular social groups

2. • In our opening sequence we have two main characters josh and
ava. Josh is seen as lonely ,outsider and Ava is seen as the
stereotypical popular girl you see in teen dramas.
• JOSH
• Male, 17 years old, middle class, British
For josh this is who our comparison is based upon, Oliver
from submarine. ACTUAL JOSH
AVA
•Female,17 years old like josh ,upper class seen to her peers
as to have a lot of money, also British.
This is who our comparison of Ava Is based upon. Regina George from
mean girls.
ACTUAL AVA

3. • In our opening sequence we constructed and portrayed our characters to fit though the use of mise en
scene, editing, camerawork and sound.which makes the plot clearer for the audience and so that we
fitted with our genre of teen drama
• JOSH
• .For josh as he is portrayed as lonely the outfit we choose for him to wear was a hooded coat when he
goes out to convey he is shy and doesn’t want to be seen. Then with sound and dialogue for josh
he doesn’t speak a lot only on the voiceover of him writing his blog, the point to this is to show his lack
of friends and the Mise En Scene that he is lonely and shy. With our camerawork on josh we used high
angle, close ups to show that he is timid and looks vulnerable. When he is walking down the high street
there are a lot of long shots and mid shots to show he is by himself and not with anyone also to give a
bigger and fuller picture of his life so the audience understand his characterists. When editing our
opening scene of when josh features. The main part is when he is in his bedroom to convey that he
enjoys his own space and his own company .

4. Continue of question 2 - the slide
before.
• AVA
• Ava who is seen as the popular girl at school who the comparison we
went on was Regina George from mean girls, ava is the girl
josh fancies and he writes anomies blog post about her which is the
basic plot line to our sequence.She has blonde hair and is seen as '
popular.' The mise en scene we created for her was that she was out-
going, not afraid to talk to people, confident and typically
popular. Unlike josh she doesn’t hide her face and wants to be the
center of attention.Ava is seen to be always smiley and never looking
down or upset, to create the sense that she has a 'perfect' life. With
the camerawork when filming ava the camera is at the level of ava,
a straight angle to show she is not venerable nor has all the
power just to show she is neutral. In our opening sequence ava has a
bit of dialogue with another class mate and then in the dreaming
scene she doesn’t talk but always looking at the camera and
smiling .

5. OLIVER TAYLOR SUBMARINE JOSH
BODY LANGUAGE
•Both have a very straight facial emotions , very moody
looking and from the images both look quite lonely as
they have no one with them or they just enjoy there
own company.The difference between the pictures is
that the left pictures of Oliver Taylor the camerawork
and editing itself is darker and more sinister then the
editing and camerawork of josh.
• I wouldn’t say that these two boys are stereotypical
teenage boys .

6. • The classic stereotype for a male/boy is macho ,confident, alpha male and the
typical interest of a stereotypical teenage boy is into cars or sport. An interest
in going to the gym or getting bigger and in our modern era using protein
bars of shakes.
Josh challenges the typical stereotype of a teenage boy as he is tall and thin, with no
confidence at all as we are aware because he really struggles to talk to Ava. His interest's
also are not going to the gym , his main interest from the story line is writing his blog and
also literacy.