Rough cuts

These first two shots were intended as two separate over the shoulder shots to show facial expressions and reactions of both of the characters through their conversations. However after we had filmed the first shots we put the conversation together and realized that throughout the conversation we didn't actually have many shot varieties and they were all the same over the shoulder shots so we wanted some variation and we re-shot the shot as a two shot with both the characters in the same shot. Even though i thought the second shot of jenny saying 'its in for tomorrow' was a good shot we changed it due to shot varieties.

The first of these two shots is of Sarah (Linda) telling Jenny (Shannon) that she doesn't really need to do the work as she is getting high grades anyway and to get the party started! We chose to re-take this shot for a number of reasons. one of these reasons is because when Sarah saying to Jenny ' what do you care your getting A's anyway' this doesn't signify that Jenny is from a working class background because stereotypically working class teenagers don't so as well at school as middle and upper class teenagers do. So we didn't feel that this was appropriate and that it didn't fit in with our genre or story line for that matter. Another reason why we chose to re-take this shot is because wee felt that 'lets get the party started' also didn't fit in with our genre of realism because when your at a friends getting ready you don't usually say that its slightly unreal and more fake we wanted something a little more casual. So really we didn't feel that this shot fit in or was appropriate for our approach.
There were many reasons why we did a re-take of the next shot. when we did a re-take we shot the exact same, the dialogue was the same it was just a few things that we changed. One of the things we didn't think was right with this shot was the fact that we wanted to show that jenny (Shannon) did actually care about her baby as we find out at the very end of the opening few minuets that she has had a baby although there are things that signify this throughout the opening few minuets. We didn't think that even a mother at a young age would go out not thinking or caring about her baby, she is still going out but just showing she cares. Another big problem we had with this shot is that we could find a babies cot in time for filming so we used a washing basket in this shot to put the baby in but when we put this shot in with all of the other shots we realized that it didn't look realistic at all so we knew we had to change it because of that, i think that was the main factor why we changed it.