I decided to produce a questionnaire to find out information on what gender has seen Mean girls the most and what gender liked the movie the most. I had 8 questionnaires and decided to give them out to four girls and four boys.
The outline of my questionnaire.
Questionnaire
How old are you?
16 - 19 20 - 23 23+
What do you like about the movie mean girls?
The characters
The plot
The soundtrack
Other:
Do you identify with the characters?
Yes No
Who is your favorite character in Mean girls?
Cady Heron Regina George Karen Smith Gretchen Wieners
Other:
Do you think this movie is mostly liked by girls?
Yes No
Were there any scenes you found relatable?
Yes No
Do you feel like you relate to some of the characters in the film
Yes No
What I discovered from my questionnaire is that most of the females liked the characters and identified with them whereas the boys did not identify with the characters at all and found the movie to be a movie that is mostly relatable towards females. A lot of the guys circled yes on the 5th question and some of the guys wanted me to show them the trailer again to be reminded as to what was present in the movie.
From my questionnaire answers, it presented that the girl audience overtakes the boy audience as most of the females I questioned knew a lot about the film and found it interesting whereas the boys could not even recognize a character in the film or remember what occurred in the scenes.
On this task, we were asked to analyze and compare two movies of our choice.
I decided to analyze the movie ''Mean Girls'' and ''Men in Black'' and compare them to each other.
Mean Girls is recognized as a 2007 American teen comedy film that was written by Tina fey and directed by Mark waters. Mean girls is a movie that is all about a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron and her parents who arrive again to the United States after spending 16 years in a research program in Africa. Overall the movie shows her experience in an all- American high school and what difficulties she has when she is pressured to be a plastic just by her friends just so they know what the experience is like.
There have been indications in the movie which show that the movie is mostly for girls as the color pink has been flaunted around the movie very often which is seen stereotypical a color that girls are associated with and like. Also, pink is a color that is very feminine. The color pink is practically the color that represents the movie Mean Girls it is on the film cover and is the most common color that is worn in the film. In the movie there is even a famous quote the plastics say which is ''on Wednesdays we wear pink''.
Age group : When it comes to the age group of this movie I believe that this movie would be relatable and found interesting to fifteen-year-olds up to eighteen-year-olds, i believe that anyone can watch mean girls however because of the language and concept of the film i believe it would be found more interesting to the younger generation as it involves relatable and girly scenes. However, it has been noted that the movie is PG13.
(The mean girls trailer)
(Picture of Cady getting her makeup done by the plastics, as you can see common pattern in the picture everything is pink or either purple which is associated with girly themes)
Men in Black is known as a 1997 American Comedy Scifi movie that was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and produced by Walter F. Parkes.
The movie shows two spies Agent K and his partner Agent D they try to stop a truck smuggling illegal immigrants to the United States. However, difficulties are then faced as they find out inside there is an alien in the truck disguised as human and overall they try to capture the alien. The spies are known as the best-kept secret in the universe as they work for a very wealthy funded unofficial government agency. Agent K and Agent D are the Men in Black the source of immigration services and manager of all things alien on earth. There have been some signs that show that this movie is a movie that seems to be an attraction for mostly males as some of the scenes are faster and action packed. Although it may be a movie that is seen to be more male influenced I believe that any gender could watch Men in Black as some female could like action films and be interested in this movie as it is a comedy too.
(Men in black trailer)
(Spies could be seen cool to young kids as they have gadgets and wear dark glasses and get very important roles)
One of the reasons why this movie could attract guys is because young boys of the age of thirteen might find it intriguing that these two guys have a job role of capturing aliens and being spies. Also, the thought of something supernatural in a film could excite them. It could even be that being a spy is something that some boys may aspire to be when they're older. Age group: When it came to the age group of this film it was said that the age group was PG13, acceptable for thirteen-year-olds to watch. However, I believe that anyone could watch men in black as its a movie that has mature scenes that could be enjoyed by people of older age.
The people in my group were Jazire, Brenda, Oltjana and Me
Are you happy with it and why?
I am absolutely happy with the video because I believe that we did a very good job with the shots and editing.
What do you think are the strengths of this video? (Technical and creative)
I feel like the strengths of the video was the different angles that we had shot. I believe that one strength was the whole concept and idea of the film and how we just came together as a group and contributed our ideas, the group dynamics was really good.When it came to the creative strengths I believe the strength was Jazire’s actingas she really played the role of a concerned and worried friend really well without any difficulties
Weaknesses? (Technical and creative)
I feel like the weakness of our projectwas the steadiness of the camera as it made the film look more like a student film than a professional one this was the technical weakness. The creative weakness was some bits of my acting as some scenes made it look like I was laughing rather than crying.
What did you learn from this experience?
I learned how to work in a busy group environment and to get the job done without any difficulties, I also learned how to shoot different angles to add a more realistic effect to the movie in order to make the clips flow and be in sync.
Is there anything you would change?
I believe I could change the way some scenes were shot and make sure the camera was very steady and to achieve this I could have used a tripod or a fig wheel in order to prevent the shakiness of the camera. I would also make sure that I didn’t appear to look like I was laughing when I was trying to appear sad when playing my role as Lisa. I would have approached it without looking like I'm laughing or next time I could hire a professional so they would be no difficulties with the role.
Here I present to you our short film called Broken. The production of the movie was a very fun experience and a task that I found very easy doing in a group environment. The scenes were structured really well however there was some changes in the script that was placed merely because we felt as a group some of the words in the script needed to be more dramatic.
On this post is where I present the pictures where some of the scenes were shot for our short film Broken.We decided to do our film in various locations such as St Georges park, the enrichment center in school and also in the school cafeteria.
Why did you choose these locations?
I decided to choose these locations because I believe that they were the perfect environment for our film. We wanted to shoot our film in a school atmosphere to represent that the actresses were still in education and of a young age.
We choose the park scene to add a playful and young presence to the actresses and also to show the contrast of how the main character went from sad to happy, last but not least we picked the enrichment center as a location as it looked like a very sophisticated place where we can present it as a Councillors office where meetings take place.
On Wednesday, we successfully completed the filming part of our short film and some of the people in my group have begun the editing process. In our group, some of us decided to do a draft edit of the short film on iMovie and see how it looks and then proceed to edit on a different editing software called final cut pro which is more professional.
Today was a very productive day as my group and I got the chance to film our movie. Overall, we completed the 1st scene that needed to be recorded in the lunch hall and enrichment centre. We decided that we were going to film our 2nd scene which is the last scene. Our next scene will be recorded in St Georges Park near the campus as my group wanted to add a peaceful and calm environment to the movie where the actresses could communicate to each other adding a playful and relaxing presence towards them. When it comes to recording and finishing our short film we are hoping to be finished tomorrow and hopefully aim to start editing tomorrow through to Wednesday.
What is the genre of the movie and the name?
The name of the movie is called broken and represents the feelings that one of the actresses obtains as she battles being involved in an abusive relationship and the genre is a short film.
