Casting

Jenny Roberts (Shannon) Ellen Page

Sarah Jepson (Linda) Amanda Seyfried

I consider my cast appropriate as they're of similar age and look similar to already famous actresses who play similar roles.

Jen Roberts and Ellen Page share the same body type, facial features, ethnicity and hairstyle/colouring. Also Ellen Page acted as the central protagonist in a film called 'Juno' in which she played a teenage pregnant mother, which relates to Jen developing that convention in our media product further as our films about coping with the baby once born. The character of 'Juno' is also less outgoing and a bit nerdy, which is how Jen plays her character of Shannon.

Sarah Jepson and Amanda Seyfried also share the same body type, facial features, ethnicity and hairstyle/colouring. Amanda Seyfried stared in a film named 'Mean Girls' in which she was both a bad influence to friends and had been badly influenced by friends, she was also portrayed as a ditsy non-academic all these features were included in Sarah's character.

Our media product represents the particular social groups of youths/working class by showing characters within the same socio-economic group (C2DE)dealing with the same common issues and acting in stereotypical ways for this group, e.g underage drinking, sexually active etc..., however does have a slight binary opposition for comparison as Shannon despite being a teenage mum in this group isn't portrayed as a outgoing 'tart' but a more introvert nerd, this would therefore address a wider audience.These issues provide something for the audience to relate to.

The convention of 'tartyness' is reinforced by the girls wearing uniforms at the beginning which is used from the media products of films; 'ST Trinians' and 'Kidulthood', however developed by Jens personality which doesn't match the common stereotype although her past actions of being a teenage mum do so, this is anchored by her making her self up (hair and make-up) and wearing revealing provocative clothing.

The form of outgoing was used by Linda being a louder and more outgoing, sexually active character used from the media product of the film 'Wish You Were Here', where the central protagonist is also like this as well as intertextuallity having the same name.

We also attracted our audience by having a the same gender, ethnicity and similar age cast whilst including 1 minor role which was a middle-aged character (Shannons mum), this could possibly give the chance for mothers and daughters to watch along together as they may be going through similar issues as they do in the film.