The film carries numerous complex ways in which these evocations are created and in this essay I will attempt to explore some of these methods in the thematic structure of the film. .
Wiseman doesn't attempt to bring reality to the screen with his films. He spent a lot of time in the High School' and with 40 hours of footage, he created an eighty-minute film, so the film is going to be far from objective, as Wiseman had to make choices not only in the production but also mainly in the postproduction, in the edit. "Through selection and arrangement, the cinéma vérité filmmaker utilizes film form and style no less than does a filmmaker who employs mise-en-scene and stages the action for the camera."" Wiseman has said in the past that his "films, though based on real events, are constructed fictions presenting a theory about the material being used- . So Wiseman is creating this reality with a certain theory and attitude towards the subject. And the reason the film works is down to the way he can put this theory and attitude across through the careful structure of the events and how they relate to each other. Wiseman is creating a reality the audience can create meaning from, so he has structured the film in a way that its language and form can evoke certain memories and emotions. .
The experience of the audience is down to Wiseman and his choices. The structure of the film creates certain evocations. When watching the film the audience is given what Wiseman has chosen to show, Wiseman is creating overall evocations for the audience who watch High School'. At a basic level the audience is responding together, sharing the meaning of the content. In the film the characters are believable, and the audience can immediately read and relate to those characters but only in how Wiseman has chosen to show those characters. .
There are themes that run throughout the film. The themes that are most commonly mentioned are: "power, authority, identity, alienation, sexuality, boredom.
