Frame by Frame Analysis- Mean Girls

            
I have taken the first 15 frames of the opening of this movie and analysed them and said why i think they are used and the effect of them on the audience.
Frame one- the first frame is a low angle shot showing the girls parents talking to her about her first day at school.
Frame two- the next frame is of the girl standing up and the audience realises that the girl isn't in fact a 5 year old who is starting school for the first time but is a 16/17 year old teenager who is starting school for the first time. 
Frame three- a frame of a long shot showing the family making a big deal out of the girls first day at school taking photos etc. 
Frame four- a mid shot showing the mum hugging her daughter tightly, this shows how protective she is and how much she really doesn't want to let her go.
Frame five- a long shot of the family standing outside the house, showing that they live in a big house and are a normal American family.
Frame six- a mid shot of the mother hugging her daughter tighter and the girl looks like she doesn't  like it, this shows that she feels that her mother is over protective of her and wants her to let her go. 
Frame seven- a tracking shot of a girl at a spelling bee, she seems to be a 'typical home schooled nerd' like described in the voice over. 
Frame eight- shows a mid shot of 5 boys, they are 'weirdly religious' as described once again by the voice over, and these two shots describe how people see her when they are first given the facts that she is home schooled, giving the impression that she is going to surprise us and not be like that at all. 
Frame nine- a few of the next frames are showing the same thing, they are part of a photo montage showing her and her life when she lived in Africa, they show the culture in which she used to live, this is shown by the villager in the photo with her and it also shows animals, this shows the lifestyle that she is used to leading the animals and the meaning of them become more apparent further on in the movie, through the characters acting out what she would normally see in the animal world.
Frame ten- this shot shows a photo of the main character still in the 'African Bush' shown as being shocked, us as the audience know it is because her mother got offered a new job and they had to move away from Africa. We know this because it is described in the voice over.
Frame eleven- this is a long shot photo showing the main character looking at back at the camera as she is walking away and waving, showing that she is leaving that lifestyle that she is used to.
Frame twelve- this is a mid shot showing her on her first day at school outside the school saying goodbye to her parents and then she turns around and a bus nearly runs her over, this shows that she is not really ready for her first day at school and the reaction from her parents show that they don't think that they are ready to let her go either.
Frame thirteen- this shot is a mid shot of her father walking away out of the shot and her mother left there waving goodbye as her daughter walks into school, this once again shows that she isn't ready to let go.
Frame fourteen- there are a range of point of view shots, these are used to help us as the audience to understand how she feels, and the use of eyeline shots are used to show us exactly what she is seeing, just a lot of unorganised chaos by the looks of it. We see her looking afraid and surprised by what she is seeing and by the behaviour of her peers.
Frame fifteen- this frame is a mid shot that goes into an over the shoulder shot this shows the girl walking into her classroom and trying to talk to a fellow classmate about normal school things, but the other girl doesn't want to know, this shows the not so friendly nature of high school girls.