pping Beyond Stereotypes: Examining Save the Last Dance

her place at Julliard.When Sarah enters the school building there is a close up shot of someone being searched with a metal detector this shows that people carry weapons in school and it is not a very nice place to be. Also pupil's bags are searched and there is a close up on Sarah's bag being searched it gives u a bad feeling about the school and that there is a lot of crime in the neighborhood. High angles are used in the club so that you can see what other peoples emotions are like and what other people are doing and what their attention is on so the camera is not just on one particular character.Close ups on Sarah's hips and feet as she dances shows that she's not got the rhythm for hip-hop and that she more of a ballet girl, when's she's in the club instead of keeping her feet flat she points them because that's what she is use to doing in ballet.

Presentational devices are used to make the scene or setting different, like changing the camera angle or where a chair or table is in the scene. An example of a presentational device is when Sarah walk up the stairs in the club the camera angle wasn't just on Sarah it was showing Katrina and her friends as Sarah and Chenille was walking up the stairs.Lighting devices are used to create different moods and atmospheres, when Sarah walk into the school building it is dark and it make the school fell like a horrible place to be like the government hasn't got enough money for good lighting. In the

film music plays very big part, with out the music there would be no story.

Hip-hop is Derek's type of music which originates from black people and Ballet originates from white people, hip-hop can be sexy to dance to but difficult but ballet is amazing to watch. Derek and Sarah both share this feeling towards dance but more so Derek because of Sarah's mother's accident.This film focuses on stereotypes all the way through the film, using stereotypes the film producers get across a lot of different points, people don't always have to have to same skin colour to love each other or even be friends with each other but most of all stereotypes are not always what they are made up to be, most of the time they are just rumors or as they say judging a book by its cover. Derek is used to discover this he is a young black man who wants to be a pediatrician he hasn't got anyone stopping him from doing that not even his stereotype.