Settings/Locations

Settings/Locations:





School:

Firstly we decided to base the majority of our film in a typical English school environment. This is because out of the teenage angst films we researched such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, they all had included a school into the film. This was the main reason why we came to this decision and also we feel that a typical teenage girl between the age of 12-18 (our target audience) will be able to relate and have a sense of personal identity with this environment.

We felt it was important to include a shot of the main character Rose walking into the front of school. This is because the shot establishes the school setting and also shows the audience a lot about Rose's attitude towards school. This is because she walks inside in a hurried and confident slightly unsure mode of address and successfully portrays Rose in this way.



This is the setting we decided to base our first main scene that involves the new girl Rose coming into contact with antagonists, Lucy knocks Rose over and completely startles her. We decided to choose this setting because stereotypically all fight scenes happen in the corridors between lessons. We also felt having it in a corridor which has the iconic school lockers was important as it enforces the iconography of a school which we have seen in films such as Easy A.

 Rose's House:

We decided it was important to have the opening sequence of the film shot within Rose's house. This is because we used this to show a lot about the characters personality.

For example we used shots within her bedroom to show how Rose is a character who cares about her appearance and her image. We used lots of iconography to convey this to the audience such as the jewellery and make up that she has in her room. We also included a shot of Rose deciding what outfit to wear. This was important to us because a typical teenage girl takes pride in what she looks like so our target audience will be able to relate to Rose as a character. We also came to this decision because we found that they also do this in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging from our research.