Representation Plan

What Where Why?

Age

Gender

Actors

Costume

Lighting

Camera shots

Sound

Editing

What?

-We use a stereotypical representation of teenagers.

-We subverted to stereotypes of gender, boy being stalked by older woman.

Why?

-During the opening we featured teenagers at a house party, drinking and having a good time. We used a strobe effect to create a sense of distortion for the audience almost making them feel like they were there. Our audience was teenagers so we wanted to make them feel a sense of self representation.

-We see Eileen in front of a board with all information about James, we wanted our film to be new and original to engage the audience, stereotypically it would be a man after a young girl. Although in contrast to this Eileen is conforming to stereotypes as stereotypically women are obsessed with males and male attention and this is what she is doing, trying to get the attention from a male.

Cohen- Teenagers are not represented in a positive light, shows them at a party, drinking and being disorientated.

Propp- Subvert to propp's theory as he states the person in distress is using a princess, weak woman etc but in our case it is James.

McRobbie- Eileen conforms to her theory by being subversive to males although she is portrayed as the villain rather than being weak so subverts to the theory in this way.

Binary Opposition- Eileen portrayed as bad, alone, old and dark. James portrayed as popular, young and happy.

Negative representation of older woman, more positive of the teenager.