Character Profiles

Name: Hannah

Costume:
Bedroom - Mixed pyjamas - uncoordinated, big hair (backcombed)
Party - Sparkly top with jeans, colourful jewellery, natural hair
At school – Skirt/dress with tights, High heels, make-up, bracelets, necklace, earrings, bag

Characteristics:
Geeky
Clumsy
Clever
Pretty
Emotional
Nice

Gestures/movement:
Falls down the stairs/off bed
Stumbling walks out house
Ignorant towards the geeks, just passes them

Representations:
Stereotypical geek in a ‘plastic’ world
Average teenage girl
Social issue of acceptance and status
Peer pressure


Name: Adele

Costume:
Party – lots of make-up, fashionable dress (jeans/leggings), straightened hair
At school – make-up, scarf, jeans, top, jacket, bag

Characteristics:
Bitch
Jealous
Mean
Controlling
Bully

Gestures/movement:
Slaps her sister
Doesn’t wave back at her sister
Angry eyes

Representations:
Stereotypical bitch who tries to be the best
Expected to see in this genre
Shows different social groups.


Name: Plastic 1 and 2

Costume:
Lots of make-up, skirts, tops, jewellery, high heels, bag and folders, and mobile phone.

Characteristics:
Mean
Bully
‘Pretty’

Gestures/movement:
They laugh at her
They use her to get tickets
They point and stare

Representations:
Stereotypical plastics
Bitches
Followers not leaders however are shown as leaders to Hannah


Name: Geek 1 and 2

Costume:
Glasses, lots of books, no make-up, jeans, big t-shirts, hair tied up.

Characteristics:
Smart
Lonely
Victims
Outcasts
Good guys

Gestures/movement:
Look at Hannah as she walks past
Studying – actually doing work
Reading

Representations:
Stereotypical geeks who are outcasts
No one talks to them
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