Mean girls 2 immediately introduces the name of the film with black screen titles which starts the film straight away for the audience. It has non - diegetic music playing as we pan over photos in frames of a girl. This draws the audience in and makes them curious as to who this girl is and why is she so important. We then have a mid shot of a teenage girl and a middle - aged man standing in an office, then the narrative voice over starts. 'There are times in your life when you find yourself in very awkward situations.' This attracts a teenage audience straight away as this character is immediately relatable. We then see the man hand this girl 'Jo' some money, this makes the audience question as to what is going on and what is she getting paid for? They want to continue watching as they know that something sneaky is going on. We then see a low angle shot of a man, so the audience is looking up at him, talking to somebody who we first assume to be a child, but then the shot changes to a high angle shot and we see he is just talking to his daughter Jo who is sitting on the floor. The way these shots are made suggests that Jo is a vulnerable character as the audience is looking down on her. We then see a flashback to her younger years and realise that Jo is not a typical teenage girl, she likes to build race car engines, this gives the film a predictable story line from here. We then see lots of establishing shots of different schools that Jo has attended and the audience start to sympathise with her a little. She then goes on to describe her rules of survival at school, 'don't stand out.' So although she doesn't seem like a typical teenage girl she still has the vulnerability of one which makes her a relatable character to many teenagers. We know from this opening that this film is a teen comedy drama as you can predict the story line, Jo won't fit in at school, which normally leads to many amusing moments, but lots of drama with the 'popular girls' throughout the film.
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