Q2

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Faisa plays the main protagonist and the audience will first know this because she is introduced through the voiceover. She

narrates how she and her group of friends are outcasts in the school. The characters are introduced individually by Faisa with

the information given to the audience about their personality. When the camera

freezes mid shot on Faisa, her facial expression looks unhappy and bored. This

is to notify how the main protagonist is fed up with her daily routine, the

comment is also made in the voiceover.

Faisa

Aminatta plays the ‘nerd’ in the group. The audience knows this as she is

stereotypically wearing round glasses whilst holding a stack of books. It is common for there to be at least one nerd in a teen comedy because if the setting is in a school then it would be appropriate for a geeky character to

take their place in scenes. Our actress plays a nerd who is stubborn as the audience can see she is bothered by the company next to her. Most nerds

are portrayed as ‘shy’ and isolate themselves away from a group,

however we have decided to portray our character in the opposite way as it

breaks the stereotype of nerds.

Aminatta

Hossam plays the ‘joker’ of the group and the audience can see this as he asks

Aminatta a question which is random and irrelevant. The voiceover also states how

he is known for his “weird traits”. Aminatta can be seen bothered by his presence which gives the explanation that his

character will play many pranks and make comments to the group.

Hossam

Jordan is portrayed as the ‘gamer’ in the film. This is shown to the audience as he is

holding a game console and wearing a cape. However, this part in the opening is

comedic because when Faisa asks “Where’s Jordan?” the camera slowly pans out of him

in the bathroom with his trousers pulled down.

Jordan

Q3: How did you attract/address your audience?

We asked a variety of questions to

some audiences to receive their

feedback on what they like about the teen genre. This is

shown in the ‘Audience

Feedback’ video on the blog.

Q3

Audience research was a major factor which helped us to address the audience. The survey helped us to validate on what we should include in our opening. Most people said they enjoyed teen films

because they are funny which is why we decided to include humour as it is a typical code and convention.