Narrative
How is the audience positioned in relation to the narrative?

The audience go through the teenage life of 15 year old Cady as she moves to a new school after being home schooled in africa, the audience watch the process of her findiing friends and learning about the world of high school for female teenagers

How are characters delineated?what is their narrative function?how are heroes and villians created?

Cady is shown to be the hero as she is the innocent one from the start and doesnt know a thing aout where she is going.Although she looks angelic Regina George is the villian yet we only discover this half way through the film.we get an idea of what type of person the characters are when Cady's friend is introducing everyone to her so it is nmade clear by that.

What is the role of such features as sound, music, iconography, genre, mis en scene, editing ect within the narrative?

the iconography such as the fashion clothes on the popular people and the not so fashionable clothes on the unpopular people brings the typical narrative of a teen movie along with the prom scenes and the house pary scenes and also the library scenes when it is being used as a form of seduction.The genre is straight away shown with the use of this iconography along with the music surrounding the movie which is teen rock and pop

What are the major themes of the narrative?what values/ideologies does it embody?
ideologies of body image and how important it is to look good