Cinematography and editing

We decided to use the shot of Linda saying 'That's sorted then, lets get ready' as a link to our quick cut richly filled montage, as oppose to Linda saying 'Lets get this party started' as it better suited our genre and appealed more to the target audience, as the 2nd option could be described as cringey not managing to get the point across.

We also decided to use a mid-angle 2 shot near the beginning of the conversation between Linda and Shannon, to better establish the location and status of the characters, it also provided us with a wider variety of shots and helped create spacial awareness and the relationship between characters. As oppose to more close-ups and shot-reaction-shots as we already had a lot of these.

We used many close-ups within shot-reaction-shots to convey the emotion felt from the speech in conversation, seeing the characters direct reactions helped the audience to relate to the characters emotions more easily.

We chose to use quick cuts as our transitions because, this is an editing convention in social realist films so not to distract the audience from the social issue. In other genres fancier transitions e.g 'dissolve' are used to engage the audience in a less impacting storyline. Or maintain continuity as a transitions like 'warp out' links to the theme of sci-fi which is a film genre.