Analysis-In our TV drama sequence we ensured that we contained the use of Levi-Straus' theory of 'Binary Opposites' as the two main protagonists (characters) showed the opposing characteristics in which one was well behaved and portrayed innocence however the other was portrayed as the bad girl type. The bad character was starred by Megan Brant and the innocent well behaved character was played by Hannah Alley.
Megan illustrated the signs of bad behaivour and awful attitude by her actions and her body language. This interpretation is caused even in the first scene when Hannah walks past Megan and politely waves. This is because Megan showed attitude by her glance looking up and down on Hannah. She looked in disgust as Hannah didn't belong in the school. Even her stance being slouched and chewing gum illustrates to the audience that Megan does't care and that being in school is the last place that she wants to be.
The opposing character showing all different aspects of being the innocent good girl type (Hannah) portays all these features by her body language, facial expressions and actions. Throughout the whole clip Hannah is constantly being polite being well mannered and just generally trying to fit in being the friend type that she is. However everything that she does has a tendency to not fit in with Megans expectations and always ends up getting on the wrong side of her. When the camera pans over to Hannah it allows the audience to get a full image as it shows both characters on the screen at the same time. From this we can see that the completely different postures the two characters have emphasising the differences that run throughout. In the first scene the audience can clearly see from Hannah's stance that her behaivour is alot better and is the behaivour that you'd expect a pupil to have while attending
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