Our film 'Just turned eighteen' has a few social groups but has one main one which is the stereotypical teenage girl who is the most popular girl in school and her nerdy best friend who does what ever Madison tells her to do. The bossy rebellious teenager is common in many teen angst films such as Mean Girls and High School Musical. We thought that this would be the ideal focus for our film as it shows the common conventions that are made up of a teen angst film and also appeals to our target audience who which they can relate to it. The picture i have used is from Mean Girls of Cady Heron who starts the film as a nerdy high school girl but soon becomes a bossy "mean girl" as the film suggests. In the picture you can see that Madison is wearing trendy clothes and the colours of a stereotypical teenage girl, one main colour used is pink. Most people associate pink with girls so it suggests that Madison is a feminine person but she also likes fashionable colours like the grey jacket she is wearing on top of that. In contrast to that, Cady from Mean Girls also wears a pink and grey combination of coloured clothes which connotes that she likes to take care of her appearance and wear a modern style of clothing. This also fits in as in Mean Girls Cady becomes popular and starts to wear these new trendy clothes as does Madison throughout our film. The facial expressions on Madison are also very similar to how Cady's are from Mean Girls as they are both popular and are use to getting their own way. In our film 'Just turned eighteen' we made Madison of the age around 18 as we wanted it to be near the end of her school life, this is quite common in teen angst films of people to be this age or a little younger. 
Another main character in our film, Ethan is an athletic socialite who is the boy everyone wants to be with, well except Madison that is. He is part of the stereotypical sports group and is one best in school at playing football, this is stereotypical of boys in school set teen angst films to be good at sports. Ethan is a 18 year old British male and is shown in the picture that he is older as he has a trimmed beard, alongside this the trimmed beard also connotes fashionable stereotyping as his beard isn't scruffy but is neatly trimmed. He also wears a smart checkered shirt to keep up with the stylish trends. This shows that he takes care in his appearance. In High School Musical Troy Bolton is very similar to our character as he does sports and is very popular, you can also see that he too takes care in his appearance as he has style side swiped hair and wearing typical American high school sports clothing. Ethan wears headphones which suggests he likes to listen to music but modern day music, this connotes that he is up to date with the latest trends and because he is so popular he can start trends. As a result of his popularity it means that people will listen to him and most likely do things that Ethan likes as this will them make them look popular as they will try to fit in. 
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