Evaluation task 2

The ideas and inspiration behind the ‘popular’ female character was gained from the 2004 mean girl’s star Regina gorge. Our idea was to have a stereotypical ‘popular’ female – wealthy, a large house, expensive clothes and a car. Similarly to Regina, Bethan (our lead character) has blonde hair, a toned figure and we ensured that she had an item of clothing in the colour pink and red (top). These colours were import to portray a certain ‘girly’ image: pink connotes femininity and red connotes sexuality. Olivia and I found that the colours which Bethan wore were import to connote her character, resulting in the audience able to have an understanding of her personality and characteristics throughout.







However the character of the ‘popular’ female and Regina Gorge are different in several ways; this is possibly because the film ‘Mean girls’ is set in a typical American high school, and in America they have different attitudes and trends. Olivia and I chose not to dress the ‘popular’ girl all in pink; we felt that all pink would create a slightly ‘tacky’ image. We also chose to dress the ‘popular’ female in leggings due to the fact that in England Leggings are more fashionable than skirts.

The ideas and inspiration behind the ‘unpopular’ character was sourced from the American comedy Ugly Betty, which first aired in 2006 in the USA. . Olivia and I believed that the most effect way to portray an unpopular person was to gain inspiration from the character Betty. Originally we chose our unpopular lead character (Jess) to wear a long orange skirt, large green jumper, glasses and walking boots however we came to the decision that this was too drastic and chose to ‘tone down’ the clothes. Resulting in the ‘double denim’ idea, an orange top and we chose to keep the original idea of the glasses. However the character of Ugly Betty wears similar styled clothing to the original outfit of jess, although this image works for the Ugly Betty character Olivia and I believed that it was extreme for the image that we wanted to portray. A further difference between the two characters is that Betty has her hair styled of a sort, however the style is not fashionable compared to the character of Jess who has an extreme ‘out of fashion’ hairstyle.

The idea behind the character of jess is that the audience can see that she is actually attractive, if the glasses were removed and the clothes were changed – this idea was also inspired by the ugly Betty character.