Hello readers! Today we'll be discussing representation in my film and who we're attempting to show our characters to be. Honestly, our story is not anything deep and is honestly stereotypical. We did this to fit the teenage dream genre of our movie. One thing we did represent is people of color as our characters are both black and our main character is dark-skinned. In most rom-coms, it's unusual to see a dark skinned main character, but in our opener, our main character is having an average experience that's cannon within the teenage dream genre and is darker in the complexion. This also disproves the racial stereotypes placed onto black women as aggressive and unhappy. In our opener, our character is extremely happy. Her boyfriend/date is also black, which displays black love.
For the character herself, she is indeed stereotypical, fitting into the average popular girl stereotype. She doesn't get to show this much as she lacks many opportunities to show her personality but in her dialogue scenes we made sure her tone was always excited and joyous intentionally, to fit this stereotype.
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