Further Changes To OMG

One of the further changes that we made to our film opening was that we re-fimed the clip of the alarm going off. We changed the phones background (the alarm) to a photograph of Lucy and Faye (Cerys Thompson and I) to show that the two characters used to be friends. So, once Faye (Cerys Thompson) had stopped the alarm this photograph would be shown for a few seconds. This therefore has made our film opening easier to understand and follow.

Another change that we have made to our film opening is not only do we introduce our characters during the montage, in separate stages of the opening when that character is on screen we paused the shot for a few seconds and had Faye (Cerys Thompson) introduce them. Whilst this is occurring on screen there is also some text that comes on the screen saying something about that person. We have made this change because we thought it will help the viewer to understand the film better and also voice overs are also commonly used in teen angst films so we did this to connote the fact our film is teen angst.  

For this shot the film pauses for a few seconds on the Triple L's, the voice over of Faye speaking says "These are the Triple L's, the school mean girls". Then on the screen in pink writing we have wrote "Lucky I'm friends with them". We made this change because not only did we want the viewer to understand who the Triple L's are (by the voice over), we also wanted the audience to understand that Faye and Lucy were friends. We chose the pink writing in order to connote that the film is teen angst because stereotypically teenage girls like the colour pink. 

For the next shot we again, paused the film for a few seconds but this time on Charlie (Johnny Crook). The voice over of Faye speaking says "This is Charlie, Faye's ex". The writing whilst this is occurring says "School Heart Throb", again we did this in pink writing. We made this change because we wanted the audience to understand further what Charlie's character is like. The fact our film has a school heart throb connotes that our opening is teen angst because typically in teen angst films there is always one teenage boy that very girl is interested in. Also stereotypically teenage girls are known to be very interested in boys. 

For this shot we paused the film for a few seconds but this time on Christian (Niall Hay). The voice over of Faye speaking says "This is Christian, my BFF" and then the writing on screen while this is happening says "always got my back". We made this change because again, we wanted the audience to have further understanding of Christians character and also his friendship with Faye.