Representation in our trailer!

We have represented gender in a fairly stereotypical way. The main protagonist is a female and she is shown as vulnerable and in need of rescuing. This is the stereotypical view of a female for romance films; for example something goes wrong and then a male comes along and rescues her and 'they live happily ever after'. We also decided to use the stereotypical conventions for a female because our target audience will be able to relate to her more. Lots of girls that age feel vulnerable and have many problems they have to overcome so they can relate to our main protagonist in that way. Also Chloe's best friend is portrayed as manipulative and untrustworthy; our target audience may be able to relate to having had this done to them by another female in their life too. Having our audience relate to our characters and storyline will make them want to watch our film.
The males are represented in a stereotypical way too. Dan is suggested to be a 'player' where he gets all the girls etc. This is seen as a way of being masculine and 'cool' to the other males. Again, our target audience will be able to relate to this because they may know a few males like this in their life.

In our trailer, middle class is shown through their costumes and the settings we have used. For example the walk in the park shows that it is a countryside setting which suggests middle class because lower class would be stereotypically set in a more rural area like a city. Their clothes are informal but not 'chavy' clothes like tracksuit bottoms etc. We chose not to show a difference in class as this would confuse the audience and would make the characters not link as well. However, we have brought in some stereotypical lower class objects such as drugs. Drugs are associated with the lower class so the audience will wonder why she has turned to drugs not something else.

Teenage life is represented in our trailer through many different ways. It shows the different emotions that teenagers go through and what situations those emotions come from. For example, relationship problems, family problems etc. Our target audience will be able to relate to these problems because they will be around this age and will know of someone of themselves who have had these kinds of problems; this will make them want to watch the film. We decided to only show one generation in our teaser trailer because this is the majority of our target audience and they will therefore be able to relate to all the characters and storyline more.