The main character is shown to be a teenage girl called Viola Hastings whose name we find out later into the film. At the beginning, Viola is happily playing soccer at a beach with the company assumed to be classmates. Voila carries on the scene by competitively playing soccer with her friends showing her amazing skills to the audience. The use of the life guard ring and the football going through it shows that she has perfected her soccer skills to a good quality to be able to shoot it where possible. Furthermore it shows Viola as more of masculine girl because females are not shown to be great at sports however in this case it looks perfectly normal because other girls are involved as well.
As the opening scene progresses, Voila is on her way to soccer practise on the schools field only to realise her girls soccer team has been cut, the look on her face is blank as she breaks inside since soccer is the only thing she truly loved. A soccer ball is used in both the first scene and second scene, this could be contrasting the scenes because at first she is happy, excited and full of life however in the scene later on she uses the football to take out her stress and anger out on Justin.
Afterwards Viola is on the way to her front door, whilst walking om the path in her front garden the lightening to shown to be darker than usual and this could be pathetic fallacy showing the audience Voilas foul mood. Also her tatty hat, baggy hoody and jeans could reflect her masculinity in the film as she looks less feminine and that she is trying to hide away from the world. In the scene she is also confused for her twin brother Sebastian which reinforces the masculinity even more.
Overall the mise en scene in the opening scenes makes the main character of Viola Hastings seem really confident within herself amd her abilities of soccer however it takes a cruel turn as she ends up feeling distraught as her favourite sport is cut from her life.
