About a Girl

The short film 'About a Girl' was based on a girl who was 13 years of age, who lived in Manchester (Mise en sen). The girl is from a lower class background that has hardly any money. She lives with her mum and sister, as her father and her mother spilt up when she was little. The short film is based around her life as a teenage girl as well as as the way her family treats her. The film starts with the girl singing to Kylie, in that time she was one of the biggest pop stars. The camera work used in the film is mainly Juxta positioning, as this sets a feel of whats going on as it jumps to things that have happened to the current stage she is at in her life.

The film is non linear as it flash's back to the pass as you can see when she talks about her father playing football and going to the pub. This gives the audience an understanding of what it is like to be her. At the end of the film it creates an enigma, as we want to find out more about why the baby has be thrown in the river.

"The mood was meant to get darker as the story progressed but without telegraphing anything to the audience, just to influence them. We started heavily over filtering, an 85B plus heavy Coral, and then gradually reduced the filter combination so that we were almost uncorrected at the end. We then corrected these back to "normal" which meant that we start with very little blue and end up with very little red."

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As you can see from above the directors concentrated on the colouring of the short film as they wanted to make the audience feel what the girl was thinking. This made the mood of the film very strange and at the end when she was talking about the puppy and she stops it's creates the enigma as we not sure whats going to happen. At the end of the short film it ends with the girl singing and the scenery starts to lighten, which then tells the audience the mood has now changed and things can get back to normally. 

This short film is a great way to show people there are a lot of people that have baby's and can hide the fact they are pregnant from there own family. it's great the way they use a 13 year old girl and the way it shows us her background makes it almost real life to other people and then people can relate to the and think "ooh i know how she feels". This film is letting people know there not the only people in the world have experienced the same thing or near enough the same event.