2. How does your opening sequence represent particular social groups?

Our opening sequence focuses on the lives of teenage girls in the 21st century, and the issues that surround them. We decide to focus on cyber bulling, as it’s a currently a huge issue in today’s society. We showed cyber bulling by one of our characters receiving a text message, which read ‘two can keep a secret if one of them is dead’. The message was from an unknown number. The cast in our opening sequence, are teenage girls aged 17. We used them as they match our target audience of 15 and above.

We tried to stay away from the typical stereotypes when we decide on the cast for our opening sequence. Our first character, Abbie, plays a popular mean girl. Rather than having the usual blonde girl, we used a brunet girl as they are stereotypical known as being intelligent. This character’s wore leggings, which is what most teen girls wear and she wore a popular shoe brand ‘vans’. Abbie’s character doesn’t have any makeup on because we wanted her to look natural and people do not wear makeup when going for a jog.

Our other character, Celaine, is Asian; in movies Asians are

stereotypical known as weak, which matches our storyline of Abbie’s character controlling Celaine. The makeup and use of blood made it clear that Celaine is the monster in our opening sequence. We used the zipper make-up, which went across Celaine’s face. The zipper was half open to symbolise that the secrets are coming out. Our actor was allergic to glue therefore we had to use tape. This made it difficult as the zipper didn’t stay in place during the filming. We also had a limited amount of makeup, so we couldn’t make it look as realistic as we wanted. Overall this isn’t a real issue, the actors face will only appear for a second.