- The school looks very rich which follows the appearance of a lot of the students.
- Her hair is up and all pulled back indicating she doesn’t really care about her appearance or what people think.
- The other characters, including her sister, put great attention on their appearance and a lot of effort is expressed in their outfit and makeup. This suggests that the other characters like to gain the attention from the other sex, which is again the complete opposite of the main character.
- the main characters position of the outcast is very much followed through into the school, others are wearing skirts and dresses. This difference further anchors the idea that she is an outcast.
- Natural lighting is used throughout the opening; this gives a realistic feel about the film and allows the audience to relate to the characters and the situations shown.
Introduction to Characters
- The establishing shot then pans across the city showing the full scene ahead. The pan leads to a green patch of land with a road running alongside it.
- This allows us to be introduced to a car full of girls; the car is blue, this is a counterbalance to expectations of a teenage girl.
- We then understand from their head movements that they are actually listening to the non-diegetic music
- We then have binary opposites approach the audience not only based in the music of that coming out of the red car but also the appearance of the new character on the screen
- she has her hair up and doesn’t seem to have paid much attention to her appearance which is the complete opposite of the girls in the other car.
- What anchors this further is the fact that she is alone in the car suggesting a lack of friends and slight isolation.
- When we are introduced to the male character, we get another sense of outcast for a different character, he is new to the school and we initially see him in the school counsellor. We do not get an insight into the male character in the immediate 2 minutes of the opening but he is expressed to be an important character to the film, simply because of the close up used and the fact that he is introduced all by himself.
How enigma is created
- Straight cuts are used between the two cars, showing the friction between the main character and the group of girls. This creates enigma as we do not know at this point why there is friction, but the audience assumes that it is due to her being an outcast.
Camera shots and movements- The scene initially gets introduced through a drawing which then merges into the establishing shot of a city.
- The pan between the two people emphasises the binary opposites, along with the merging of the music.
- a medium shot of the school with hockey players outside. This shows the manic life of a pupil at a school and we get an idea of what the school is like.
- A crane shot is then used which emphasises the size of the school and the number of students attending.
- The introduction to the main character sets up the plot by showing her as an outcast and showing the binary opposite, we then know that this will be continuous throughout the film.
Titles
- ‘Ten things I hate about you’ starts with the name of the company ‘Touchstone Pictures’ presents, this is very messily written to emphasise the teenage aspect of the film it has been written/ scribbled out to initiate the setting of a school.
- From this point on all the headings have this scribble appearance creating anchorage to the school/ college theme.
What is significant
- The characters used are teenagers which allows the target audience, teenagers, to understand the characters a bit more and allows them to relate to them even more.
- A variety of camera shots and movements are used, however pan is most commonly used in this particular opening. This gives the opening a clear continuous feeling about it and they show how different characters are linked or related to one another.
- Overall this film opening uses binary opposites, the costumes and the sound to set up the plot of the film and show certain characters to be outcasts.
- The main editing used was straight cuts, which were quite fast paced again showing the speed of teenage life.
- The setting used was clearly associated with its target audience and the characters also are relatable to its audience.
- The use of props such as posters, cars and bags further anchor the setting and the characters personalities.
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