Summary

Code and conventions	Findings	Textual evidence
Stock settings	·         High school was a common setting in the films we have studied. ·         There was a contra between urban setting and rural setting Urban setting: bust cities, town centre and building Rural setting: outside lands ect. ·         Most of the opening was studied the setting was introduce before you met the characters.	·         High school setting: Mean girls, Never been kissed, 10 Things i hate about you and Cinderella story have a high school setting. ·         Contras between urban and rural; Rural: twilight is a good example for a rural setting its set in the forest and there is a lot of opening land. Other examples are notebook and dear john urban: 10 things i hate about out you the setting has very high building and loads of the and the city look very cramped /
Stock character	Female character; Pretty, thin and blonde and care a lot about the appearance or a outcast who is try and fit in. They fall in love with a handsome lad who is normal a captain in some kind of sport/fitness. The female character is the dominate character. Male character; Normal helps the female fit into the group and is very good looking and plays a sport.Other character;Normal different group of people each group has there only identity by the way they dress and what they do in there free time.	An example of thin blonde and pretty would be Regina George. She so has the personal of the topical bitch.( savannah out of dear john) An example of an outcast would be Sam for Cinderella story  she was just known for diner girl but she turn out to be Cinderella who prince charming fall in love with. (Cady out of means girls) Which lead us on to the to the lad Aaron Samuels he is the captain of the schools football team and could have a great future in football. A good example of different groups is mean girls as they go to the extreme with there identity  and even the arrangement is the dinner room i set by the different groups
Themes	·         Death or illness of a main family member which relates back to one of the main character ·         Heartbreak ·         Finding their own identity ·         Romance ·         Relationship with peers relating to a boy	Death/illness; raise your voice, last song, Cinderella, notebook, my sister keeper a walk to remember Romance and heartbreak: ALL of teen romance haves this theme. An example of this theme is in save the last dance. Sarah and Derek fall in love but there was a lot of up and down because of Derek ex and some people have a problem with the two different racist being together.
Narrative	General its Girl met boy then there is ups and downs and the ending is always happily Ups and downs: family, friends, moving to a different place or new job and college	In grease she fall in love on holiday but they had to go back home. Cady out of mean girl her mom got a new job that why she move to the high school also the boy she likes is her friends ex and this gets in the way of there relationship.
Iconography	Car/ driving	10  things I hate about you ,mean girls and Cinderella ( mainly America set films as they are able to driving 16 )

	Finding	Example
Create an enigma	Ø  Only showing vague the character and setting. Ø   By showing an connection between the characters without showing the main storyline. Ø  Telling the audience  a bit about there pass because normal it isn’t good so the audience wants to know what the present and future hold for them	Ø  Step up does this very well you don’t see any of the characters is detail Ø  Grease; at the end of introducing each characters they had a cartoon picture of there reflection in the mirror. Ø  Cinderella story: because you  doesn’t have a mother figure in her life and her dads dies  that makes they audience feel  sorry for her and makes them want to carry on watching the film
Introduce key theme	Ø  Over voice explaining what happening/happened	Ø  Means girls; she explain how her mother moved and she used to be homeschooled and now she going high school the audience already knows they going to be a big different and she might find it hard to fit in
Introduce genre
Use of title	Ø  In big funky bright front which suggests that they target audiences is for a younger age Ø  Most of the films the title was at the beginning	Ø  10 things I hate about you; the titles are in different colours and a messy front Ø  Never been kissed; no character are introduce the first thing you see id the titles with people names who are involved in making the film.