Wild Child

In Wild Child, Emma Roberts portrays a rebellious American school girl, Poppy Moore. She is sent to boarding school in England and at first, fails to get on with any of the girls at the school. She cares about her appearance and exaggerates her life in America. She hates her boarding school and tries her hardest to get expelled, and the girls in her dormitory agree to help her. However, throughout the film, her personality begins to change and when she dyes her hair she seemingly becomes a completely different person. At the beginning, Poppy is a stereotypical teenager, only caring about her appearance and her mobile phone, however towards the end she becomes more caring.

Poppy's 'enemy', Harriet is played by Georgia King. The character is Head Girl and believes that she is popular, but in reality most of her classmates think she is stuck up. She is incredibly manipulative and tries to get Poppy expelled, but ends up getting expelled herself. While Poppy finds the value of true friendship in a positive way, Harriet only finds that she has pushed her few friends away. 

Poppy's friends Josie (Linzey Cocker), Kiki (Sophie Wu), Kate (Kimberly Nixon) and Drippy (Juno Temple). Although at first they don't get on with Poppy, they soon all become close as Poppy tries to get herself expelled. Although they all have completely different personalities, together they are really supportive towards Poppy, until they think Poppy was 'slagging them off'. Although hurt by what Poppy allegedly said, they come together to realise that she didn't say anything against them and go and support her in her expulsion hearing, remaining loyal to her. Before Poppy arrives, they don't care very much about their appearance, making them a countertype. They shop at charity shops, which is unlike most teenage girls, who like to shops like New Look and River Island.

The main setting of the film was a large boarding school, and it was filmed at Cobham Hall in Kent, which is a boarding school for girls in real life. This is an appropriate setting because it has all the equipment needed and school is a stereotypical setting of a teen angst film. The location is relevant to the audience because the target demographic of this film is 12-18 year old girls, all of which will go to school or will have gone to school at some point. Although not all of the target audience will go to boarding school, elements of the setting, especially the interior will have some relevance to the viewer.

The main teenage characters in the film all have to wear school uniform. Poppy's friends all wear their school uniform correctly, as seen in the picture of them above, however when Poppy is new to the school she attempts to customise it in order to appear more fashionable.