Part 5 Evaluation

Part 5

'Graduation Day' is filled with different types of stereotypes. Many typical teen stereotypes are portrayed, to show the different types of characters in the film. The main character, Rose, wears clothes of very dull colours, with no bright colours. In her school photo, she also wears glasses which represents the stereotype of a 'geek'. Doug wears a baseball jacket which suggests he plays a sport, which is a very common stereotype for the 'popular' boy. There is also the character of Ching-Lee that is also presented as a 'geek' through the use of glasses, and also fits the stereotype that asian people are intelligent. The character of Shelby wearing a fur coat instantly suggests that she is fashionable, and the use of the pouting and posing represents that she is the 'popular' girl. In our research, we found that in many teen films, the 'popular' boy and the 'popular' girl would be in a relationship at the beginning. For example, this happens in 'A Cinderella Story'. However, we decided not to use this stereotype, as we thought it would make our film less original. The music we used is aimed at teenagers, and the band members who created the song are teenagers themselves, which helps draw in our target audience. Our mise-en-scene was carefully thought about, and we considered in detail our target audience. There are several shopping bags in the set of our title sequence which is aimed at our primary audience, teenage girls. The photograph on the wall and the year book photos are also stereotypically kept by girls as sentimental memories. We edited the shots in our title sequence to make them very fast-paced, which matches the pace of the song. The fast paced rhythm is aimed at our target audience, as this type of music connotes young people partying and enjoying themselves. Our typography is the typography that is usually seen on baseball jackets. Boys in American films who wear baseball jackets are usually called 'jocks', and are usually the 'popular' boys. We thought that this typography is a typical school font to use, and can be recognised by our target audience easily. The lighting of our set was very bright so that the audience knew there were going to be bright, fun and happy characters in our film. In the film 'Wild Child', when the girls are having fun the lighting will be bright and the weather will be nice. However, if the 'snob' in the film is about to do something bad, the lighting will be darker, the outfits would be dull and the weather would be bad. This is a very effective way of creating a mood in the film, and we thought carefully about what time of day to film our title sequence.