'Miss-Fit' Film Analysis

Film Analysis

Audience - ‘Miss Fit’ is a chick flick which is mainly targeted at teenage girls. Genre - The genre for ‘Miss Fit’ is Drama comedy, classified under Chick flick which is also known as a teen movie.

Ideology- Ideology is a beliefs and values of something by a group of people who discuss what they think about a media text and the particular way of life including values and beliefs.

Protagonist- in Miss Fit we use Suzy Chapman (Chelsea) as the protagonist. She is also seen as the villain as she is mean and bitchy. On the other hand, the victim is played by Beth Thompson (Lily) who is shy and unconnected with her school friends who could also be considered to be the protagonist.

POV- Point of view shot is where the audience identify the scene from the characters Prospects. Most of the time the story is based on Chelsea’s point of view but does flick between what could be seen as the other main character, Lily.

Target audience - The target audience is main audience that the media text is aimed towards. Miss Fit’s main target audience is teenage girls, but as secondary it is also a family film as its genre is drama comedy which could be targeted at family.

Voice over- In are film we originally decided to have a voice over which was going to be played by an anonymous character which would give an independent view on what was going on in the movie/trailer.

Stereotype - This is the social classification of a group of people identified as common characteristics. For example, 'dumb' blond, this is used in mean girls as the girls are stated as 'Mean' girls and are 'dumb' blonde's.

In Our film we did use typical stereotype for the villain/bitchy girl such as short skirts, high heel shoes, little tops and the bitchy sidekick always standing next to her (slave like). But we also wanted to change one main stereotype round which was hair colour as in classic chick flicks the head girl/bitchy girls is normal blond and considered to be ‘dumb’ blonds. In contrast to this we swapped it and main her (Chelsea played by Suzy Chapman) brown haired.
Additionally, we also had a traditional unsociable geek in are trailer called Lily (Played by Beth Thompson). We once again kept some of the classic stereotypical geek characteristics such as glasses, non fashionable cloths, tied back hair and changed her hair to blond.

In conclusion, for are main 2 character we kept the normal characteristics of them but just swapped their hair colour. We felt that this was a good idea as we wanted to give our own twist to a classic chick flick movie.