Costume and Props

Props

• Open/close sign (with production and distribution company names painted on)- supplied by me
• Surfboards- supplied by The Escape Surf School
• Plain mat
• T-shirts- supplied by The Escape Surf School
• Radio- supplied by Miss MacDonald
• Apple Mac- supplied by Sam
• Chalk/chalkboard- supplied by The Escape Surf School, chalk supplied by Jess
• Piece of paper with "Written by Katie Price Sam Scott" typed onto it

The props we decided upon using follow conventions of our surfing theme so as to properly connote the theme and narrative. The fact that only a very niche audience will actually come into contact with these props on a regular basis fits into Higson's regional identity theory as it lets the target audience share the identity shown on screen as it's familiar to them. The use of everyday objects is also a convention of the teen genre, and follows the idea used by our main inspiration for our film opening, Napoleon Dynamite.

Costume

• Wetsuit
• Flip flops

The use of a wetsuit rather than a swimming costume or bikini disrupts Laura Mulvey's 1975 representation theory that argues women are portrayed as 'erotic objects of desire' for the spectator and characters in the story. This is because it's a more practical outfit for surfing, rather than sexualising our female protagonist, which we feel will help attract our primary target audience of females due to the fact they won't feel objectified as they commonly do on multiple media platforms.

Both worn and supplied by Jess.