A Cinderella Story- Repertoire of Elements

The repertoire of elements in a film are all the signs that hep the audience recongnise what type of film it is. This includes the narrative, which is the typical story plots a teenage movie would follow, settings or typical location that suits the stories, Iconography which is all the visual signs we see as an audience.
Below i have listed the repertoire of elements for "A Cinderella Story":

Narrative:
Teenagers struggling with their socail life and trying to find out who they are and what they want from the future. Hilary duffs character is living rich with a her step mother and sisters that use her for their daily chores. She lives in the attic and feels unwanted ever since her dad died. But later after confiding her feelings to an unknown teenage love on school internet chat rooms she finds that she wants more from life and ends up meeting her true love, but as storys always go, true loves path never runs smoothly. Both Austin and Sam want to attend the same University called 'Princeton'.

Setting and location:
The settings or location are high schools, as we see all different types of teenagers and how they are coping with the demands of high school and trying to find out there place in the school. This settign of a high school suits the film well as they are teenagers leaving for university, they want to follow their own career choices, but find their lives have already been mapped out for them by their demanding families. Sam Montgomery is used as a slave and a personal waitress for the step mother and step sisters, and Austin Ames "Prince charming" is being bossed around by his dad into taking over his fathers car business, which is not what he wants, as he too wants to go away to University. As they both wants to go away from home to University.

Generic Iconography:
The Iconography in this movie is quite easy to noitce, for example the step mother and sisters are portaying a money oriented faimly that have plastic surgery and wear pink clothing and have fake hair and nails. We noticed from their that Sam "Cinderella" doesnt fit into their world as she is very natural looking and doesnt want to foolow her step mother. We notice an instant divide between them because of their visual looks and the language they use. For example the step mother has a bad attitude to education as she bins Sams Univeristy acception letter, because she wants to keep her at home cleaning, rather than being successful and move out of the house. Also Sam is more deep in her personality than the step faimly she lives with, they just care about looks and money, whereas Sam just wants freedom and universty. Sam also drives around in an old bagger car that looks rusty, and her step mother drives a car that looks expensive. This visually shows how unfair her life is and how she is not really like them.