Travelling and Arriving

As a class we analysed the opening of Breakfast Club (John Huges, 1985), the opening was of various students most probably key to the film travelling on their way to school for a detention on a Saturday at 7.00am. The way the characters arrive suggests their role in the film e.g. rich girl, jock, weirdo and

loner. The first character arrives in a BMW sitting in the front seat with her father, the use of dialogue between the father and daughter "missing school to shopping" and the camera shot mid close up on both characters displays how she is wealthy and spoilt in other words 'Popular Rich Girl'. The 2nd character is shown through a jump cut, of the son, younger daughter and mother all in the front of the car with very little space between them. the dialogue and tone of voice from the mother shows she is disappointed and has a lot of pressure on him , the car is an old beaten up car displaying he does not have much money and his mother wants better for him in other words the 'Unpopular Student'. The 3rd character is shown in a close up of the father and son sitting in the front seat, the use of the varsity jacket, and dialogue about football and good car suggests that he is the 'Popular Jock'. The 4th character is walking alone with no school bag of family, also when the car is close to running him over he didn't move a muscle and continued to walk this may mean he is the 'Rebel' of the film. Lastly the 5th character is in an old car, sitting in the back there was no close ups of the family talking just a long shot of the car, when the daughter went to say bye the car drove off and the use of dark clothing suggests that she may be the 'Loner' of the teen film.

Travelling and Arriving are key to opening drama's, Mise en scene and Camera angles/shots have a big impact on how a character is perceived as they give a suggestion to the viewer of who plays what character this is done through use of stereotypes, camera, editing, sound and mise en scene. For a teen drama the characters are usually travelling to college or school after a school break, 1st day of term etc.

As a group in our own teen film to travel and arrive to scene's we could use a small variety of transport that we have access to such as; bus, car, train, cab, walking, bike etc. We are limited when it comes to transport as we are young students, however in our teen film this would be justified as the characters are teenagers also. The easiest transport to convey stereotypes is through walking. It shows more of a realistic point of view to see teens at the age of 17/18 to be making there own way to college than getting taken by there parents.