This document provides notes about the drama-documentary style film "About a Girl" which focuses on a young teenage girl struggling with unemployment, lack of opportunities, and seeking money and independence in an industrial, run-down setting. The director aims to represent this underclass group in Manchester with empathy while addressing stereotypes, and examines the girl's vulnerable yet independent nature as well as the stereotypical roles of her insignificant mother, bored male peers, and poor father who fails to provide.
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Drama about a girl mind map
1. Drama documentary style: About a girl
Class: Age:
Unemployment/ lack of Young teen
opportunity Sexually active/grown up
Struggle for money Independent
(lottery), but there is Young parents 30s
money for cigarettes and
drink
Underclass (benefits)
Accent (slang, swearing,
Northern)
Costume (hooped
earrings)
Setting industrial, run
down
Director empathy for
them Representation
Blame on parents
Stereotypes Chav in About a Girl
Manchester
Gender:
Dominant
Independent
Vulnerable
Celebrity status important
Not looking for boys from
the clothes she wears
Mum insignificant
Broken family
Male boredom
Dad Mans man likes
football and a drink down
the pub
Poor dad, not a provider
(stereotype)
Tomas Noad
