Initial Ideas And Risk Assessment

These are the the papers where we wrote our initial ideas to our film and the risks we need to consider.

Initial Ideas

First we wrote all the cliche idea for teen angst film these included

• Sex
• Party's
• Alcohol/Drugs
• Parents Splitting Up
• Abuse
• Mental Health
• A Loved One Dying/Terminally Ill
• Moving School/City
• Bullying
• Bitch Girls
• Fall Outs
• Pregnancy

We liked the idea of pregnancy because not may teen angst films have made a film revolving around pregnancy. Also we knew if we were to follow through with this idea we would add our own twist on it. We considered what generic conventions of teen angst films we would include Such as

• High Key Lighting
• Girl As Main Character
• A Voice Over At Beginning And Throughout By Main Character
• Different Stereotypical Social Groups
• Bitchy Girls
• Main Setting In School

We included all these generic conventions of teen angst films in our film in order for our audience to be able to recognise what type of film this was so it would attract them and in order for the audience to be able to relate to our film. It was important for us especially to include many different social groups, this was so we attracted many different social groups in real life as they would relate to the characters and they would want to see how the characters life's planned out and how they are similar.

Risk Assessment

Once we had an idea about what shots we would be taking and using we had to think and the risks that would come across when filming. One of the main factors for use was the chance of getting hit by a car as we were filming a mildly busy road. There was three of us making our film at this time one of us were acting the other was filming and one of us was checking for cars and other vehicles and people that we needed to watch out for, both for the purpose of ours and others around us safety and in order to make sure nothing interfered with our filming.

When the main character is walking past the sixth form room someone could have walked into her. As this was a possibility we filmed when the sixth form common room was not that busy in order to decrease the chance of this happening. However when we was filming someone did walk out but round the characters. We felt this made our film better as it looked lively and full.