10 Things I Hate About You - First 2 minutes analysis

•  The film company logo - Touchstone Pictures - is short compared to the other films, only lasting 8 seconds.
• The black screen titles finish at 0:21 seconds.
• The writing of the titles is neat scribbles, not messy child scribbles but more teenage stylised scribbles, giving away the genre is to do with teenagers.
• The opening pan is of the coast, the area the film is set, to a street which could be where the main characters live or use frequently.
• One car pulls up to start with, full of teenage girls who fit the stereotype of the American "populars", which again connotes the genre is associated with teenagers. The second car has one girl in to who's music is a different style to the "populars" and is much louder which the girls are not impressed by. The single girl looks smug by this, suggesting there is a rivalry between the two groups which an iconic aspect of a teen romance because usually the unpopular girl gets the boy the popular girl wants.
• However, when the popular girls get coped looking at the individual girl, a medium shot of them is used showing them look away quickly, connoting that even though they are popular this girl scares them a little. 
• Also, when the traffic lights change the individual gets away first, which again suggests that she is an independent girl who has one over on the popular girls, which is usually never portrayed because the populars are always the ones in charge.
• The music along with the shot of the hockey players suggest that the single female is quite tough and tom-boy like resulting in her not needing many friends, which is a very popular idea for a teen love plot because the tom-boy always ends up looking beautiful and getting the boy she never thought she could.
• The dominating role the girl seems to have is continued through the two minutes with a medium shot of her ripping a poster of the wall that someone has just stuck there. It gives the audience the impression that she does not care what people think and also could make the audience start to dislike her for being rude.
• The school is shot after the hockey sticks and it is shown by a tilt, gradually showing the whole building. It is shot from outside to show that this is also a main setting in the film - typical setting in a teen romance.