I have decided to analyse the opening for the film Mean Girls, I decided to choose this Chick Flick because it is one of the most successful and well known girlie films of the 21st century. This film follows a girl called Cady Heron, she has lived in her Africa for all of her life up until now when her parents feel that it's time she socialised and went to a high school. Cady herself has no idea what her school life will be like. She soon gets informed of the 'Queen Bee's'; Regina George, Gretchen Weeners & Karen Smith, they notice her and decide to invite her into their group. Cady also starts to notice a guy, called Aaron Samuel's, she doesn't know that he is Regina's ex boyfriend, Regina says to Cady that she will talk to him for her and Regina ends up snogging Aaron in front of Cady. Cady then makes up a plan with Damien & Janice (the people who invite her into their group when she first arrived.) Although Cady is reluctant to carry on being Regina, Gretchen & Karen's friend she finds it quite easy and almost like it's part of her routine. Cady quickly changes into a 'plastic' and leaves the people who befriended her when she first arrived behind, and lives the life of a Queen Bee. While Cady is living her life as a fake Queen Bee she has been giving Regina 'kalteen' bars, which are nutritional bars given to children in Africa to help them gain weight, she lies to Regina and says that they are weight-loss bars. Later on in the film Regina finds about the Kalteen bars out and so she makes a plan of her own to boycott any respect Cady has.
In this film a lot of artificial light has been used to create the illusion of lighting in a school. When Cady is outside there is natural light from the 'sun'
This film also lets us into the normally secretive world of the American High School, their social groups and how bitchy they all are to each other, in this film and probably everywhere in America if you don't have looks then you're not popular with the boys and you don't seem to get anywhere in your school. In our film we would be using the American kind of social groups, with the Jocks and the Nerds and the Queen Bee's.
Quite a lot of the ideas from our two minute clip are going to come from this movie, as we feel it is easy for us to relate to the topics that are raised in this movie.
I like how in American High Schools the pupils wear their own clothes, since being in 6th form I feel it gives us a sense of individuality as we can express ourselves through our clothes, but because we are doing an English Chick Flick we will probably need to do everyone wearing School uniform, in England having a uniform is a very big part of our lives, we wear it nearly every day for the 12 years that we are in compulsory education, so that makes us different from America. In England I feel that the schools make us all want to look the same through our uniform so nothing can distract the teaching of lessons, but girls and boys still tend to express their individuality through their hair or customizing their school uniform and trying to get away with it. In England i also think that girls are showing more skin and growing up too quickly, like girls wearing foundation and heavy make up at an early age, this shows us that our society is trying to get our girls to grow up before they've even hit puberty. This pressure for girls to be skinny and perfect (like a Queen Bee) also comes from Celebrities, girls read magazines and see themselves as not being perfect enough so they change themselves.
In the first two minutes of Mean girls the film credits take 19 seconds of the first two minutes, and the Opening credits come up as the film is going through. At the very beginning there are low angle shots, which could suggest that Cady, is only 5 or so, as it is her first year of school, but we then see that she is 16 or so, and starting high school for the first time. This could imply to the audience that Cady isn't going to fit into the School.
Laura (:
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