R+P Post 4: Representation of Social groups in our opening sequence

Since our film is a teen comedy and is set in a North London school, the social group we will be representing is British teenage boys and girls of relatively middle class.

- We decided to break the stereotype of school uniform in a British high school by having our cast all in non uniform, mainly because it would to difficult to organise for our large cast.

- We're grouping our cast into the stereotypical teenage groups you'd see in high school in order to create the stereotypical 'cliquey' atmosphere you would find there (as exampled in the mean girls clip below); for example, the "chavs", the "nerds", the "populars" and the "druggies".

-Teenagers are portrayed in all teen/coming of age films as loud, busy socialising (either through parties, gossiping etc.), fighting (boys mainly), disrespectful to adults, sex crazed and everyone has their place in the hierarchy of high school. These stereotypes will be adhered to in the opening through the different groups mentioned above in our opening.
-The desire in most teens to fit in with the crowd and be accepted by the social elites, usually called "the popular crowd", from the films we've researched similar to the genre that we're doing (like Mean girls, 21 Jump street and Super bad) will be symbolized through the movement of our main character in the opening.
-We have decided to comply to the British accents shown in "The Inbetweeners" and "St Trinians" since the actors we will use will be British and have the accents already.