Wild Child

The protagonist is represented as…

• Desirable• Wild/out of control• Affluent• Popular

Desirable• The shot is taken from below which

shows she is powerful and in control

• She is surrounded by males which shows how she attracts lots of people

• There are slow-cut mid-shots of her sleeping to emphasize her effortless, natural beauty

Wild/out of control• Her body language is confident – her crossed

arms show that she is careless • The fast-cut rhythm of shots when the girls

are tearing open boxes shows that this is their idea of fun

• She is always shot from below, but as the film is from the protagonist’s point of view, this shows that she thinks she is above everyone

• Poppy dominates the screen time so it is clear that she is self-centered and wants everyone to pay attention to the crazy things she does

• A long shot is used to show her run along the side of the pool into the sea, and there are three shots of this to build up and create anticipation for what she is about to do

Affluent • An establishing shot of the ocean has

been placed just before a shot of Poppy in her bed, to give us the impression that she owns part of the sea, which suggests how vast the land she owns is therefore how wealthy she is

• A long shot is used - Poppy is small in comparison with her bedroom which emphasizes the largeness of her house and how spoilt she is

• The pastel and white colours are used to symbolise wealth

Popular• If you apply the rule of thirds, all her

friends are leaning into the centre of the shot which signifies that they are all obsessed with one thing; the protagonist. It could also signify how self-centered she is.

• The shot from below represents her friends as powerful, which gives her power making her seem even more popular

• A long, panning shot is used to show all her friends from a distance which signifies how many she has