How you have used representation to create meaning in the film opening that you made this year?

Within the film opening I made last you, representation has been shown in many different ways.

Firstly the main character I used was a teenage girl. Throughout the whole of the film she is represented as the stereotypical women. She is portrayed to be weak and venerable, which is a stereotype of women. I did this by making the main character have an unsettled sleep, showing her fidgeting which is the denotation and the connotation is that she's having a nightmare. The costume worn by the  main character is also very stereotypical as she is wearing pink pajamas with bows on, the colour pink is very much associated with women/girls. The colour pink is again used when looking at the decor of the bedroom location. Also the bed covers are pink and flowery. This is known as a dominate ideology as the majority would believe that teenage girls love the colour pink. The main character is also shown writing in her diary, which shows she is very insecure, another stereotype of women.   


secondly the other two girl characters that I used were represented to be the opposite of the stereotypical young girls. Therefore meaning that I challenged the representation. I used two young girls, normally would be sweet & innocent but I went against this and represented them as evil and scary. This would not be a dominate ideology. I decided to represent the girls in this way to move the audience give my opening a twist to other horror openings. The two girl characters were only shown in the opening for a few seconds, there was a number of quick flashes of them through the use of short cuts. I did this to create an enigma code for the audience as I wanted them to have questions about the girls as they would know nothing about them from just the opening, therefore they was represented as mysterious. 

I also thought very hard about the right location as it was important that it matched the representation of the two evil girls & the main character. I then decided to use the swing location as I believed that the moving swing in the wind was very unsettling just like the way the main character was feeling, it also linked to the mystery representation of the two girls. 

The camera work also helped with the representation of the main character by making her look venerable. one example is the use of a dolly shot, moving around the bed mad the main character look very isolated from the outside world, very also and venerable. The number of close ups that I used on her face to show the audience how she was feeling was also a way of representing her to be the stereotypical women.

When looking at the costume, representation was also used. In the story line the two girl are from a different time period, this is made clear through the costume as it represents them to be old fashioned through the maid looking costumes.