Film Analysis

For my analysis of a teen 'Romantic Comedy' (romcom), I have chosen analyse the opening sequence to Mark Waters 2004 film 'Mean Girls'. i will be looking to see how different micro elements, e.g. mise en scene, editing, sound and camera work are used to establish the story line, characters and the genre. As well as watching the opening sequence to the film, I will be using other resources to find out information about the film, like Wikipedia, IMDb and Google, so that I will be able to find out the name of the songs used, and who they are by, etc.

Mean Girls is a controversial teen romcom, which covers all aspects of modern teenage life, like cliques, ethnical background, sexuality,etc, and the problems that can arise from these, like bullying, racism and homosexuality, but they are still covered in a comic fashion, so you may even say it was leaning over to black comedy. The film is centered around the protagonist 'Cady Heron' (Lindsay Lohan) and shows her lifestyle change when her family move from the desesrts of Africa, to the concrete jungles that is America, and how she realises that life in America isn't quite the walk in the park she thought it would be.

The music chosen for the opening sequence is