Film 3: High School Musical (2006)

“High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise.”

1) In the opening few minutes we meet our two protagonists. The beautiful girl that the male character falls in love with, then the male protagonist himself. He is quite obviously the high school jock and is obviously the star high school basketball player. Then we see your usual American High School, again equipped with the social classes. We are then introduced to the wealthy, arrogant kids, we can tell that they are villains because the spoiled children are always villains. If this film could have villains.

2) Its signalling for a teenage audience because it has your handsome teenage heartthrob boy and attractive female, it also has the high-school everyone can relate to and the realistic spoilt villains you can relate to.

3) The teenagers are portrayed as ‘cool’ and regular American teenagers whereas the  adults are portrayed as realistic parents or teachers.

4) Within the opening 10 minutes we see two locations, the holiday place and the high-school.

5) The mood like most others is a joyful one, not sad and not overly happy, a modest joyful mood.