Last night, on Thursday 19th December 2013, I went to watch my little sister's Christmas pantomime she played as a fairy named 'fairy nuff'. The play was called Cinderella & Rockerfella, this is a panto-style musical recreating the Disney story 'Cinderella'. This is not something a teenager would watch as it does not include any conventions that would make it aimed for teens, BUT whilst watching this play I noticed there were a range of different binary oppositions, for instance;
Good vs. bad
Fairies vs. witches
Songs vs. dialogue
Animals vs. humans
Fairy dust vs. poison
This pantomime also used mise en scene to express some stereotypical elements. For example the witch was wearing a black wig, dressed in black with black and green make-up. The fairies were dressed in pink with pink tutu's and ballerina shoes. Due to all Disney and family movies society has created this image on how these characters are presented. This can be through speech, dialogue, sound, lighting, mise en scene etc.
Here is a clip from last nights show;
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