Save the last dance 2001

Stock settings.
There are two main settings in Save the last dance. The opening starts with the main character on the train and there is a dialogue between her and another character, this leads to flash backs of the pass. The audience founds out that the main character used to be a dance but she lost her mother due to a car crash while she was trying to get to the dance show. So the opening is not a happy one but the audience know a lot about the character and feels sorry for her, because of the sad opening it makes the audience want to watch me to see if things work out.
This leads the character to a different setting as she had to move. It’s completely different to where she was from. Chicago's South Side, in a neighbourhood that is decidedly not middle class and predominantly black. Its rougher and the high school are completely different too the audience can see that she would not fit in. There is much more crime and violence this is the opposite of the character personality, we know the character is a clam and peaceful person because of her hobby (ballet).   The first viewing of the main character is on a train, she is starring out of the window, she makes it obvious whenever she is going she don’t want to go there. This makes the audience carry on watching the film to find out why she does not want to go. The clothes and body language make her look like relaxes girl who does not start or want trouble, as she is wearing barely any make-up and the clothes was not revelling. Her body a language is crouching around and all body features are close together which connotes she keeps herself to herself. In the flashbacks you see the character in her ballet uniform which is a black Leotard and pale tights. Ballet is a form of dance and can be formal it is also a good way to show emotion. So the audience gets the feel that the character is an emotional person and likes to express her feeling in dancing.
When the character moves into the city you slowly see a different personality in the character’s costumes, when she goes to the club her clothes are a bit more revelling and she changes her dancing and it’s more hip-hop, the complete opposite to ballet. The character’s attitude also changes like so she can fit into the high school. Since her mother died she didn’t have a care in the world and she lost her ambition to be someone. By change the costume this was more obvious to audience.
Students in the school you can see what kind of stereotypes there was  by the way they was dressed; the geeks would be fully clothed with glasses however the popular people would have crop-tops and shorts on and would be around the lads most of the time.
The lads would be wearing baggy jeans and tops and the costume was “street” dress sense. By putting the characters in these costumes it’s made it clearer that they were from the city and made a clearer different because the two places.
Later on the film she falls in love with her friends brother who a lot like her with a big ambition and he helps to become more confidence and go back into ballet, so the end links with the beginning as she re-tries to audition for ballet but this time its more of a happy end as Derek is there to get her though and she passes.