The Hunger Games:

Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games is portrayed as a strong, single minded girl that stands for what she believes in. She volunteers for her sister to take her place in the Hunger games. She's not represented like the majority of teenage girls in the media who are ; Blonde, popular and pretty.  She's portrayed as a intelligent, athletic, strong, capable girl, who was never noticed in school. She comes from a poor family which consists of her sister Primrose and her mother who both heavily rely on her to catch there food since there dad died in a mine accident.

She joins up with fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark to compete in the Hunger Games together. She uses her knowledge of hunting and archery to survive which she learnt from her late father, and the two become the victors after she defys the Capitol's attempt to force one to kill the other. Defying the capital requires great strength and comes with a big price sometimes even death. She stood up for what she believed in when she defied them she saved Peeta's life and her own.

Katniss becomes the symbol of a rebellion for the twelve districts to rebel against the Capitol.


How the representation affects teenage girls: I feel that the representation of Katniss Everdeen is a positive one. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her and her appearance doesn't matter to her. She is still very pretty with minimal makeup or no make up on . she has a single braid down her back every day, shes a very plain girl yet she still has two boys falling in love with her because she is herself she has her own look and personality, she looks fresh and her age. She determined and fights for what she believes in which is sending a good message to teenage girls she doesn't always get what she wants but sh doesn't ever give up. She has to look after her family and play the role of mother sometimes this is also good for teenagers to see as she works and helps out her family instead of ignoring and taking them for granted like Regina George does. She doesn't have many friends but the friends she has she doesn't gossip or bitch or complain about how hard her life is she sucks is up and gets over it.



How the Representation affects society's perception and attitude to teenage girls.

It makes society believe that girls are just as capable and as strong as boys are. They can be a fair competitor when competing in the hunger games and have the many the same abilities and capablities and males do. This strength in females is shown through the main character Katniss Everdeen.



Reasons/ implications for any differences between the representation and reality.

In reality most people that would see this movie to not live in as harsh conditions as Katniss does. they wont have to go hunting for food and be forced to compete in hunger games. In reality we get so much more than Katniss does like fresh food, shops, clean clothes, hot and cold fresh water and electricity but we take it all for granted and complain if the powers out for a night or our clothes are clean or if we dont like our food. katniss portarays girls very well and she provideds a role model to look up to for teenage girls in the media.

Mean Girls!

Mean Girls Stereotypes;

Stereotypes are groups that are categorised due to appearance , hobbies and behaviour. In movies stereotyping is a quick easy way to learn about the characters. Stereotypes are usually a simple broad mental picture that describes all the members in a group. Different stereotypes include; Emo's, Nerds, The Populars or Plastics, Band geeks, The different races, Cheerleaders, Jocks etc. Click below to see all the different stereotypes of mean girls?  

In mean girls we see the typical stereotypes of a teenage high school. The Emo's, Nerds, The Populars or Plastics, Band geeks, The different races, Cheerleaders and Jocks. In mean girls these are the so exaggerated that you know its not reality. The effectiveness of the features in casting these different stereotypes was very well done they got the right stereotypical look very well in each clique this was helped by make up and costumes.

The representation of teenage girls in mean girls affects teenage girls because girls are looking into the media for guidance on what to wear and how to act. When they see the girls behaving the way they do in mean girls there starting to behave the same way. here is one example below:

Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne tested the way 53 college-age British women responded to movies featuring women being either violent or mean-spirited. The women were divided into three groups, watching clips from either “Kill Bill,” “Mean Girls” or a nonviolent movie. They were then asked questions by a rude researcher.

When asked to subject the researcher to a loud noise or to grade the researcher’s performance, the women who watched “Mean Girls” and “Kill Bill” were significantly more aggressive toward the researcher than the control group was. The study suggests that the effect of watching girls engage in indirect bullying of each other, known as relational aggression, is as harmful as watching violent images. This is how mean girls is making teenage girls react to situations where their patience is tested.

The differences between reality and representation. For teenage girls to feel pretty and be popular they need to be thin, busty, and wear revealing clothing while gossipping about their friends and others and spend most of there time worrying about boys and parties rather than their school work. This is exactly what mean girls is all about. The movie Mean girls is turning into a reality. The representation of the way the girls speak to each other in mean girls is rude and appalling. They call each other whore's and biaach. This is mainly said by the head Mean Girl Regina George. This dialogue is showing that people can call you all types of names but its normal and you shouldn't be offended its just the way to talk and treat each other. In reality you would have no friends and not be very popular if you called your friends these names. The way these girls are representation is in a very bad way its giving teenage girls unrealistic ideas on how to behave ,act and dress in the company of others. Regina George is the head plastic she is mean, manipulative and nasty, i feel the reason she is like this is because she was brought up a spoilt child, and for most of her life she could of been the only child which is why she was so spoilt because we she her sister which looks to be 10 years younger than her. I feel that Regina is mean because she was brought up spoilt and not taught any better and got whatever she wanted. In mean girls Regina takes her parents for granted she bosses them around for example she makes them swap bedrooms with her because she wanted the bigger room. In reality most parents would be a lot stricter and would tolerate such nonsense from their children. How Regina treats her parents is showing that if you treat them like that there will be no consequences.

The clothes they wear in mean girls is very revealing, short, pink and shows a lot of skin in all places. Above is their Halloween costumes and below is there everyday clothing. As you can see they are all wearing very short skirts, high heels, all have their hair down. This shows that they are all the same they wear the same things and there all doing a 'sexy' pose. This message shown through the way these girls dress is that your only going to be pretty and popular if you dress less.

How does mean girls affect society?


Mean girls affects society because young girls are watching this film and thinking its ok to act the way these girls are. If these girls act like they are on the movie then they perceive that there going to be cool and popular just like these girls. But the reality is if girls acted the way these girls do in the movie then they will have no friends. If girls treated there friends like Regina does they will have no friends. In reality you cannot get away with calling your friends Biaatch, slut and whore. You also cannot get away with dressing like they do to school. If you had the attitude of any of the plastics you would not be very well liked by anyone in reality no one would think you were cool. 




In Mean girls we constantly hear and see them fussing over there appearance for example in this video clip below there is 3 beautiful girls standing in front of the mirror to me and other girls they are perfect the are popular, pretty, skinny and seem to have it all. But these 3 girls in the mirror have very low self esteem which makes us think they don't believe they are beautiful then what do they think of us.

In Mean girls we constantly hear and see them fussing over there appearance for example in this video clip above there is 3 beautiful girls standing in front of the mirror to me and other girls they are perfect the are popular, pretty, skinny and seem to have it all. But these 3 girls in the mirror have very low self esteem which makes us think they don't believe they are beautiful then what do they think of us.


Reasons/ implications why the stereotypes messages and/or values are created by the representation. 

Blonde haired girls are shown very easily as the dumb blonde because they have become such a big stereotype that you can tell by looking at them what there character is like the often have a blank took on there face and there doing something little that's dumb for example Karen Smith you can tell she is a very simple stupid girl that just follows the head popular around by looking at the picture at the very top of the page it shows Karen trying to tell a secret but has her hand the wrong way.