question 2

How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

The key characters in my film are a popular girl, who is stuck up and only cares about the way she looks, she is wearing a pink top and a skirt the colour pink represents that she is very girly and this is also shown because she is wearing a short skirt which represents her as an attention seeker, she is similar to Rexhina in the movie mean girls, as she too only cares about the way she looks and she always wants to stay skinny and she is seen putting make up on as she really cares about the way she looks. In our opening sequence we also see a girl reading and writing, this girl is a geek and she represents the people who study hard and are not really interested in the way they look, as the geek looks very scruffy with her hair tied back, this is similar to Sam in the movie A Cinderella Story because she is a geek and she is not really noticed in school. We also have a class clown who has a chewing gum in his mouth and he is distracting the person sitting next to him, the class clown represents the social group who are naughty and don’t really care about studying. In our opening sequence we also have boy who is a Goth and he has got black make up on, is wearing all black clothes, has got black hair and is listening to music, this is a stereotypical Goth as they all wear black and they like their own space because as we can see in the opening sequence, when the class clown keeps poking him he doesn’t just moves his body, and his body language shows that he does not like people annoying him and this is because he wants his own space and does not like talking to people. In the opening sequence we have also got a boy reading the newspaper and rolling a basketball around the table, this represents him as a basketball player, and he loves basketball so much that he even takes it to detention, this is similar to John in the film John Tucker Must Die because he also loves basketball and we see John Tucker often with a basketball to show that he loves basketball.
For our cast we had to take people out of the other media sixth form class as we couldn’t take any other students from other year group out of lessons because exams were approaching. Form the other class we chose the people we thought would suit best with our characters.
We directed all our cast to what they had to wear and how they had to act in before the shooting of the film, and showed them how to act during the rehearsals one week before the filming, however we changed some minor parts of the film by the time it came to the shooting day, so we showed them how to act the role on set.
During filming we had some small issues with our cast because we would tell them how to act however they would try to do it the way they thought was right but it didn’t look right on the camera, after this problem was reoccurring we decided that we should actually do the actions ourselves by taking the actors role and physically showing them how we wanted them to act. We also had an issue with the basketball player because we wanted him to wear a basketball uniform to make him look more like a basketball player for our film, however the actor did not feel comfortable to wear the uniform and therefore we agreed as a group that it would be fine for him to wear his normal clothing and just roll a basketball around in a table because the ball would show that he was a basketball player , we did this as we didn’t want our actors to feel uncomfortable at any point as we wanted them to enjoy actually making the film as well as doing the job.