At first we're not introduced to the girls face, instead we see a silhouette of the back of her, which could represent a dark and isolate life, straight from off. themajority of the short film is made up of jump cuts; the shots of the girl walking down the canal and narrating her life, is shot by an hand held camera, which fasten the pace of the film, which represents the girls fast and common nature. 
there is a realistic urban setting to the film which reinforces the personality of the character. There is 8 different locations within the film; the canal, pub, cafe, football field, the bus, the perfume store and the streets of manchester when mum appears on screen, all the locations are dark and dingy, except the perfume store which is bright and airy, suggesting its a place that the girl shouldn't really be in. Throughout the girl is wearing the same big white coat, and big hooped earrings with jeans and trainers; this could represent the girls insecurities and also the obvious fact that she's been hiding that she's gone through 9 months of pregnancy; which isn't revealed to the very end of the film. 
The first time we're introduced to the girls family; we see that they're not a very tight family structure, her mum is more interested in cigs, money and her littlest child, the girl is always out of the way, and on her own or on her phone and her dad is more interested in football and the pub, he's apparently "looking for a job" but obviously not committed to his family. 
The more important parts of the girls story is presented in long shots; and are on screen for 8-10 second unlike the rest of the shots which are 2-3 seconds each. One of the most important editing shots that appears on screen is the pulling focus of the girls body, suggesting that her mum doesn't notice the girl and she feels invisible. Most of the characters in the story have the same class background, the one difference in characters is the women working in the perfume shop, she's dressed much more sophisticated and appears to be from a much higher class background. 
The sound is the same throughout the film, it is just the girl speaking to the audience, narrating her life story over what appears to be 9 months, the only change in sound is when the girl repeatedly sing songs of Britney Spears on her own and on the bus with her 3 girlfriends; without any background music just acapella. There is a change in mood when the girl stop by the canal,the pase slows down when the girl stops and looks at the canal, there is also a change in show, its a long birds eye view shot, shes narrating how she's gotton good at hiding things from her mum, since the event of hiding a dog in her room, which her mum ended up throwing in the canal (which must have been where she got the idea from).
We finally find out about whats in the carrier bag that the girl carries around for the duration of the film. This is the part of the film which makes it similar to our film, its a shocking and taboo subject which is avoided at all costs, the girl has obviously undergone 9 months of pregnancy without anysupport from her family as they're not committed enough to even notice, she's gave birth to a dead baby, and thrown it in the canal, as she feels this is a normal thing to do, as thats what her mother did to the dead dog. 
It cuts to a long shot of the girl walking off from the event singing like normal as if it hasn't bothered her. It is a very shocking ending as the girl never seems to be distraught about the situation. 
The Credits after the film include the cast; the girl, mother, dad, toddler, 3 friends, fishing boy 1 and 2, football teams; the writer, the producer, the director and so on;just a normal rolling title; which is more than likely the same as how we do our credits at the end.  |
| the main girl in the piece is introuced initially on a hill side signing britney spears, she is presented as a childlike innocent character, she is shown to be from a lower class background, and seems to be a very lonely character, she is very talkative and hyperactive, the film is based around the story of her life, she is wearing the same outfit throughout and is going through a hard time, without any of her family realising anything about what shes going through. |
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| her dad, she doesn't live with her dad, but would like to; he cares more about football than anything else, he is shown to not care a lot about his daughter as he leaves her sat outside the pub whilst he's sat enjoying his night with his football friends, he is shown to be a man with no job and doesn't show any means of getting a job to helping his daughter out. |
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| her friends, these are the people that actually pay any attention to her but still dont have a clue about her pregnancy, they act the same, and are shown to look up to her, they're all presented as being from the same background. |
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| shop keeper, is introduced in the middle of the film, to show a difference between class, to women is obviously from a higher class background, and talks in a posh voice, however she is presented as being a stereotypical 'dumb blonde'. |
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| her mum, she is shown in lots of cut offs from her story, as her mum has many opportunities to find out about the situation that she is in, however she is presented as caring all about herself, cigarettes and her other children, her mother obviously doesn't listen to her and is from a lower class background, and is presented as being a really unstaible and unsuitable mother to her children. |
The image to the left shows the characters from the popular Teen Comedy/Drama television series, 'Skins'. The picture alone shows that all the characters are very different as they're all different sexes and races and all clearly have very different styles. This helps to represent and recreate a believable set of modern day teenagers as it creates a sense of groups and stereotypes and the sense of hierarchy that seems to occur within these different groups, and so gives the viewers something to watch that they can believe and relate to.
The poster to the right shows the American Teen Drama television series '90210'. From this poster we can see that all of the characters look slightly upper class due to their body language, confident facial expressions and expensive looking clothing. Although there's a mixture of sexes and races among the characters, they all look as though they may all fit the same stereotype or maybe even be within the same group, so giving only a look into one area of teenage life rather than it as a whole, showing that although two television series can be classed as 'teen dramas', they can both represent two completely different kinds of reality, and my examples of 'Skins' and '90210' show this contrast brilliantly.Overview
A teen drama is focussed at teenagers and young adults where the plot of the film is based on interests of teenagers such as first love, conflict with parents, rebellion and friendship whilst experiencing other teen issues. Films in this genre are often set in high schools or contain characters that are currently in high school. Dramatic themes such as alcohol/drugs, poverty, moral dilemmas and violence are usually used.
History
The genre wasn't created for the first 45 years of television, and hit our screens in the early 1990's with the popularity of the T.V series 90210. After television writers and producers realised how much of a success the show was, they realised the potential for this new genre. Other T.V series' such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creak were created and became very popular as well as more recent recent series' such as Gossip Girl, Skins and One Tree Hill which have also become very successful. In the 1970's Grease was a huge hit about a relationship and there friends set in a high school, with drama's along the way such as pregnancy and crime. Other popular releases from the 90's are The Craft, Hairspray, American Pie and Dirty Dancing. More recent films such as Bring IT On, Mean Girls, Dare, John Tucker Must Die and Jennifer's Body have also created huge hype and success.
Sub-Genre
A lot of teen based films have had popular themes such as action, comedy, musicals, science fiction and fantasy.
Examples
The 2004 American teen comedy/drama Mean Girls created massive success worldwide producing $129,042,871 in box office sales. It is focussed on a new girl at school and describes to us how high school social cliques operate and what affect they can have on other people. The film introduces different cliques such as the 'nerds', 'jocks', 'desperate wannabes', 'art freaks' etc- but focussing on 'the plastics' (popular girls). The new girl Cady was warned to avoid 'the plastics' however doesn't listen and gets roped into there group, however this causes relationship problems, broken friendships and becoming in trouble at school on the way. I think this film is a great entertaining insight into high school life, which teens in particular would enjoy and be able to relate to.
The very popular teen drama T.V series Skins has so far released five series' which is shown on E4, winning BAFTA and NME awards. It shows the lives of a group at college friends in England. Many powerful issues have been explored such as drug abuse, mental issues, dysfunctional families and death. The characters all are different different sex's and races, coming from very different families with various problems. Each episode is usually focussed on a difference character overcoming a certain issue/ problem. Due to the explicit and shocking content of the series it is rated an 18 and played late at night. I believe this modern day series isn't the type of series that you can watch and relate to every single episode, however it gives us an insight into young adults issues and problems that they could come across in life, which sometimes may be relate-able.
is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several tv releases. Momentum have recently distributed popular films such as 'The Woman In Black',
'P.S, I Love You' and 'The Kings Speech'. This may be a good film distributor for our film due to focussing incredibly on the films they distribute and therefore only distributing a low amount of films each year compared to other company's which try and distribute as many as they can. However, again the films that they do distribute often have a reasonably large budget and become fairly popular.
