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Mean Girls

The young girl is introducing herself in the voice over; we get to see a track of her life. The  cean peal tape of her pictures of her in Africa really interest me and is very creative. An idea of mine is maybe I can use a photo album  to introduce my characters. Cady (LIndsey Lohan) does her own voice over to introduce her character. When cutting from table to table really builds a personality to the scene, it is filmed in an interesting way as each shot reveals a lot about each 'table group', when this amount of information is given to the viewers it becomes apparent to them if this is the kind of film they will laugh fully watch. The long shot of the 'it' girls walking not only makes them centre of attention but it is filmed with closeups to make them the focus of the shot, the tilt of their whole image intrigues the viewers. 

When each character is introduced they have a moment where they speak, this is meets up with conventions of a trailer. The split screen with close up of face, allows you to show two different locations but one conversation, in this case a phone conversation this is fascinating and is a exiting way of editing instead of cutting from one person to another on the phone. 


The screenshot is a close up of the actresses facial expression, as you can see it reveals her emotions through her facial features and angle of her eyebrow. It is really important
to include these shots if it is a expressive genre such as, drama, thriller or crime. This shot usually lasts two seconds long.